Book of the Week: THIS PLAGUE OF SOULS by Mike McCormack
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack $40
Our Book of the Week is the long-awaited new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-winning author of Solar Bones. When Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, he finds a completely empty house. No heat or light, no furniture, no sign of his wife or child anywhere. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed. The one exception is a persistent caller on the telephone, someone who seems to know everything about Nealon's life, his recent bother with the law and, more importantly, what has happened to his family. All Nealon needs to do is talk with him. But the more he talks the closer Nealon gets to the same trouble he was in years ago, tangled in the very crimes of which he claims to be innocent.