MIXED emotions
This month’s story is a love story, but it’s not your average love story. It presents the reader with a complex couple and, through their relationship, considers issues such as loneliness and the importance of communication. You can read it here: http://writ.rs/thecoastofleitrim
In The Coast of Leitrim by Kevin Barry we meet Katherine who hates her knees, and Seamus who hates quite a lot of things about himself. They move from a passing acquaintance in which he idealises her and fantasises about her, to a proper relationship, living together, separation and beyond.
Seamus is in many ways a deeply flawed character, and at times his pursuit of Katherine has a stalkerish quality, for example when he sneakily takes a photograph of the rota at the café where she works so he’ll know when she is on duty. But nevertheless, Kevin Barry has the reader rooting for him, and wanting a good outcome for the
