Will I love Blasted Things?

This was astonishinly well written. Lesley Glaister creates such resonant, breathing WWI characters and balances them in a plot that feels both inevitable and crescendoing. The historical details are sharp but lightly embedded and the characters feel as if they are psychological products of their time - in particular her internal voice for the maimed soldier Vincent, with all of his speech cliches and early 20th century cadences, draws you so closely into the reality of his world, that his failed schemes and disappointments feel almost painful to ride alongside. It's brutally dark, in the vein of Ruth Rendell's Barbara… show more.