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Review: SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER by Sara Baume
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Review: SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER by Sara Baume

How to express the unsayable in language? If there is one shared pursuit among writers, it is perhaps this: to capture an elusive essence, to paint emotion with words. In her debut novel Spill Simmer Falter Wither, Irish author Sara Baume meets this enduring challenge to astonishing effect, adeptly portraying the searing core of loneliness,…