The Unseen - Roy Jacobsen as each woman struggles towards

as each woman struggles towards her own idea of freedom

A child's disturbing picture of his home

he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness

and money with rounds of soju and freezer-chilled Marlboro Reds

and Gabriele Buffet - the protagonists of this brilliantly imagined “true novel” - are vividly reimagined by the Berests

The Unseen - Roy Jacobsen as each woman struggles towardsIngrid Barry is born on an island that bears her name a holdfast for a single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams. Her father dreams of building a quay that will connect them to the mainland, but closer ties to the wider world come at a price. Her mother has her own dreams more children, a smaller island, a different life and there is one question Ingrid must never ask her. Island life is hard, a living scratched from the dirt