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Keeping faith

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March 2010, no. 319

Keeping Faith by Roger Averill

Transit Lounge $29.95 pb, 233 pp

Keeping faith

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March 2010, no. 319

Keeping Faith, Roger Averill’s first novel after his non-fiction debut, Boy He Cry: An island Odyssey (2009), is a quiet and resonant piece of work. Befitting a novel set partly in a labour ward and beginning with a description of a stillborn baby, it proceeds with the knowledge that finding the right words can be difficult. It speaks carefully and tactfully, in a spare language of great focus.

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