Through the Lonesome Dark
Paddy Richardson
Upstart Press, $35.00,
ISBN 9781927262986
Paddy Richardson takes a risk with her latest novel. By setting it in Blackball, a mining town on the West Coast in the early 1900s, she raises expectations of another Denniston Rose, and for well over 100 pages, readers could be forgiven for believing that they are reading a similar tale of a spirited young woman in trying circumstances.
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