Lead Review

• Book: The Bellwether Revivals
• Location: Cambridge
• Author: Benjamin Wood

In prose that’s unfussy but effortlessly vivid, filled with nice descriptive flourishes (he’s good at quite difficult things, such as describing the growing sound of music as it thickens the air of a room), Wood’s confident, sometimes creepy debut novel draws you in – like the faintly heard strain from that hauntingly played pipe-organ – and then, once you’re inside, holds on, ever tightening its grip. The Independent

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