The stripped-down almost flat prose which characterises this powerful debut collection from young Northern Irish writer Liadan Ní Chuinn makes it all the more effective. Loss, anger, grief and disappointment run through the six stories that make it up, several of which are linked by the legacy of the Troubles, most evident in the first and final lengthy pieces. Intergenerational trauma is explored in ‘We All Go’ through Jackie whose visceral memories of his father’s decline are interwoven with his questioning of the past while Rowan is faced with his cousin’s fury in ‘Daisy Hill’ when he raises their family’s experience and its effects on both them and their parents. Difficult to read, at times, this is a striking collection, thoroughly deserving of the praise heaped upon it by the likes of Wendy Erskine and Louise Kennedy.