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The Bestowing Sun by Neil Grimmett
The Bestowing Sun is a story about a family in rural Somerset. One brother - Richard - stays home, tied to the endless demands of the farm and family. He struggles to suppress his own character in order to please and succeed while always remaining undervalued in his own mind. The other brother - William - escapes but knows he must return and face what he is running away from if he is ever truly to be free to create. The only ties that the brothers share are their parents - who still play out their games in a unresolved struggle for control – and the person they love, Selina, albeit in very different ways. In the end it is about the possibility of redemption through art - however briefly.
Just as William is able to capture split-second moments and turn them into timeless, emotionally charged, flowing scenes on the canvas, Neil Grimmett manages the same on paper as his distinctive and poetic prose flow irresistibly throughout the novel. The Bestowing Sun is an examination of human relationships, the traditional versus the modern and the intrinsic value of art, accompanied by characters that are loving yet hateful, secure in their ways yet destructive, proud yet in the end able to forgive: all the contradictory human feelings that we face every day. A stunning debut.
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