Philippa Conlon

3 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Philippa Conlon |Ben Street |Christopher Howse |Anne Nelson

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereWe tell ourselves storiesWhen to surrender to fictionCharles, the narrator of Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, does not know when exactly his daughter, Elizabeth, was born. For days, he sat on the riverbank, staring at a darkened house on the other side of the water, waiting for it to light up again with the arrival of his baby. It was “Mary’s plan to lie”, Charles explains, “and say that the girl was another man’s”.