Dimensions
130 x 197 x 23mm
A man in prison for an appalling crime picks up the journal of a shell-shocked soldier and begins his own confession...
In the autumn of 1922, Captain Crowe is on a journey across Leicestershire. He intends to visit his old comrades from the War, finish his book on horticulture, and come to terms with a past that still haunts him and a future that terrifies him. The prisoner is reading Crowe's book whilst writing his own diary. Crowe's retelling of his odyssey in his letters, their appearance within the book and the prisoner's interpretation of them, creates a macabre fusion of past and present, where fact and fiction, truth and reality begin to merge and coalesce.
Juxtaposing the experiences of a shell shock victim in the early 1920s with the recollections of an alleged child-murderer in the present day, 'Journeys in the Dead Season' is a masterpiece of psychological complexity and subtlety.
