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Mercias Take Daniel Wiles

SKU: BELL-46871720

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

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Mercias Take Daniel Wiles instant download after payment.

Publisher: Swift Press

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 1.28 MB

Pages: 147

Author: Daniel Wiles

ISBN: 9781800750708, 1800750706

Language: English

Year: 2022

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Mercias Take Daniel Wiles by Daniel Wiles 9781800750708, 1800750706 instant download after payment.

Wiles received a Booker Prize Fountaion Scholarship to fund the writing of this book, and it was clearly money well spent. This is an outstanding debut from what is an exciting new British writer.
It is set in the heart of the Industrial Revolution, in 1872 in a small Black Country village where the landscape and social cohesion are being savagely torn apart by its three collieries. Among those miners, many of them young children, working in the shocking conditions is Michael Cash. He has taken a second job in order to send his six year old son to school. Having worked himself in the mine while still a boy, he is determined that this son won’t suffer the same fate. But when taking that second job loses him his first, he feels his cautious plan slipping through his fingers.
That’s enough of the plot to seduce any potential readers. To say any more would spoil the experience, and many reviewers give too much away.
Suffice to say that the book has a propulsive plot moving rapidly to a rhythmic beat. It is robust fiction that is deservedly compared to the likes of The Gallows Pole; indeed Benjamin Myers was full of praise in his review for The Guardian. However, this is very much it’s own thing. It has more of an experimental style enriched by its use of the speech and accent of the Black Country, not only in the dialogue, but across the whole of the piece. This use of language encapsulates directness, generosity and a kind of classless intimacy.
Behind a seemingly perpetual night, mines and furnaces materialising out of the smog, Wiles reminds us that this is part of the ancient of Mercia, and it’s King, Offa.
This was a very powerful and memorable reading experience. That use of language slowing my reading to a crawl, for which I was very grateful in a such a short work.