STOP, play, pause, rewind .....it seems this innovative writing technique it is now of our time.
We are all addicts of the remote device that defines our viewing, be it the bog standard television or laptop, the touchscreen tablet or the ubiquitous smartphone.
Imbued as we are for visual onscreen viewing pleasure by way of Netflix , Amazon, iPlayer et al and the concept of the rewind procedure for quick plot resolution, why not then a written word fast forwarded.
Author Catherine Ryan Howard who has already set a high bar with Distress Signals and The Liar's Girl takes the challenge and executes with her undoubted skills.
The setting, a desolate group of holiday cottages in a place called Shanamore , weeps of solitude and windswept shorelines under grey Irish skies
The synopsis sets the tone: Andrew
watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?
Thus the story unfolds, moving forward in time and then back, pausing at times to regroup and renew the plot line and then onwards -- a psychological thriller that is unpredictable, tense and a tad confusing.
The literary senses are nevertheless palpably teased in the pages of this latest offering by a significant emerging Irish writing talent.
We are all addicts of the remote device that defines our viewing, be it the bog standard television or laptop, the touchscreen tablet or the ubiquitous smartphone.
Imbued as we are for visual onscreen viewing pleasure by way of Netflix , Amazon, iPlayer et al and the concept of the rewind procedure for quick plot resolution, why not then a written word fast forwarded.
Author Catherine Ryan Howard who has already set a high bar with Distress Signals and The Liar's Girl takes the challenge and executes with her undoubted skills.
The setting, a desolate group of holiday cottages in a place called Shanamore , weeps of solitude and windswept shorelines under grey Irish skies
The synopsis sets the tone: Andrew
watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?
Thus the story unfolds, moving forward in time and then back, pausing at times to regroup and renew the plot line and then onwards -- a psychological thriller that is unpredictable, tense and a tad confusing.
The literary senses are nevertheless palpably teased in the pages of this latest offering by a significant emerging Irish writing talent.