The End of Nightwork

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Like I said, I liked Booth. I loved going along with him on his adventures. And I felt some anxiety that he would be discovered. NR made him nicely clever and resourceful. It's an odd conspiracy theory that seems to owe more to Pizzagate and Q-Anon and, in the UK, the fantasies of Carl Beech and the ill-fated Operation Midland, than, say, to Climate XR, but with obvious links to Pol's own condition, mentally still young but, by the novel's end, elderly, and labelled by Kourist's as a 'Hoarist'. This book is told from the POV of Harry Booth. A young man who becomes a thief through necessity and talent. I want to start by saying that I tried to keep my walls up about our main character. He has so many names, but Booth is the most important. I tried so hard not to love him and failed completely. He was just a kid when he stole to keep his mother's bills paid while she fought the demon that is cancer. He was barely out of high school when he lost her. He traveled and changed who he was and existed in a world that never gave him a chance.

While the fashionable method of short, separated paragraph units sometimes impedes the prose, Pol’s understated wit is fine company As an example, the novel is set around the time of the 2010 election, when having foolishly dumped their best ever leader, Labour lost power to the Coalition, one whose initially impressive liberalism ultimately paved the path to Brexit as well as, crucially for the novel, and via tuition fees (actually recommended by a Labour-created commission) the significant age gradient that has arisen in UK voting intention. In the novel's timeline an even more acute version of this political age divide gives rise to the radical Kourist movement (more below). a focus on caring, particularly for someone who ages faster than their partner, and the inter-generation burdens of care; It is hard to pin down what this book is at times, but the core premise of the book, and the de-ageing process, sits alongside some very interesting and weird asides, but was very singular in a fascinating way.The End of Nightwork is a satisfyingly odd novel. It is both an urgent grappling with the frightening times we live in and a meditation on what Chaucer called “the woe that is in marriage”. This is a weird shape-shifter of a novel, often veering between absurdity and a comical mundanity, along with non-fiction elements and much more. My book, The End of Nightwork, is about that most pointless and painful of things: the passage of time. In the book, the protagonist – Pol – is haunted by the influence of a 17th-century millenarian, called Bartholomew Playfere. Like all prophets, Playfere refuses to be part of his own time. Instead he becomes part of a future, a future that Pol coincidentally participates in.

Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart seriesFor Cottrell-Boyce, who stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party while completing his PhD in Divinity, Pol’s condition and interests are a means by which to explore themes of climate crisis and the political differences between generations. As much as I love Nora and will continue to read her books, they’re rapidly becoming repetitive if you’ve read most of them. However, this is a good book for a newbie, or even if you’re an old-timer who wants a satisfying read. At the 57% mark it got slightly better because we stayed in one location for a longer period of time, but by that time I just wanted to finish this. However, the plot took an unexpected turn, it was something I’d expect in a rom com. The End of Nightwork takes the form of a memoir written by Pol for his young son, Jesse. Pol describes the difficult marriage between his German father and Irish mother and his obsession with 17th-century apocalyptic prophet Bartholomew Playfere. After Pol discovers Playfere through a lesson at school and a Ladybird book, he learns that his parents honeymooned on the same island in Connemara where Playfere led his people to wait for Armageddon (Playfere had identified it as the location due to a misunderstanding).