Carry Me Down Observer Review by Geraldine Bedell

Here’s an extract from the review of Carry Me Down published in the English Newspaper The Observer. Geraldine Bedell, a regular reviewer and contributor to The Guardian and The Observer is also the author of a novel, The Gulf Between Us

John Egan is huge, gangling and vulnerable, a 12-year-old child-man on the cusp of adolescence, intensely physically aware but almost wilfully emotionally obtuse. In MJ Hyland’s stunning second novel, he relates his impressions of a year of his life, sadness seeping out through his deceptively simple sentences.

The prose is so flattened that it was only toward the end of the book that I realised how much drama there was in John’s existence: violence, poverty, homelessness, the appalling incident in which he wets himself at school, the loss of his only friend.

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