The End of Nightwork is an urgent grappling with the frightening times we live in and a meditation on what Chaucer called ‘the woe that is in marriage’ 📙 maxjliu
The End of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, review: An urgent grappling with terrifying times
At the age of 13, the narrator of Aidan Cottrell-Boyce’s debut novel suffers his first “heterochronous shock” and his body ages 10 years. Pol’s facial hair grows at an uncontrollable speed and, when he is admitted to hospital, he can’t be treated on the children’s ward. Pol’s schooling is disrupted by his condition and his Irish mother reacts to his difficulties by coddling him. Pol’s German father is long gone and Pol remembers only a strange and forbidding man: “My mother thought it was contrarian of my father to want to call me Polonius… I think he maybe just thought it would help him to feel sorry for me. He found it difficult to feel sorry for people.”
Pol escapes his weird family when he meets Caroline, a “debonair” violinist. The attraction is instant and mutual and the couple marry in their early twenties. By then, Pol is researching Bartholomew Playfere, a fictional 17th-century Puritan who prophesised ecological disaster. The couple spend their honeymoon on the small Irish island which Playfere said would be the only place where you could survive the apocalypse.
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