BOOKS
Maybe it’s cold outside…
But you can escape the winter chill with fiction to warm the soul, ignite the passions and set the pulse racing
by ROSE SHEPHERD
THIS, MY SECOND LIFE
Patrick Charnley
our pick
Son of the late Helen Dunmore, Charnley draws on his experience of cardiac arrest, coma and brain injury for this short, elegant, infinitely touching debut novel. Twenty-year-old Jago is living a simple, contented life, attuned to the seasons, on his uncle Jacob’s Cornish coastal farm. All is right enough with their world – or it would be if it weren’t for rogue neighbour