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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
The poetic quality is certainly beautiful. The opening section reminded me a bit of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales in its exuberant imagery. Later sections are like different stanzas exploring the moods of the narrator as he tells us of the "Grannies in the Wainscot," the suicide and murder, and the evocation of his amazing mother.
It is a memoir to savour.
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I wonder, is the similarity happenstance besides the location or is it something to do with Lee also growing up so close to Wales?