An extract from my review HERE of THE SEA CHANGE & OTHER STORIES by Helen Grant:
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Nathair Dhubh
A marvellously chilling serpent’s tale of a climb upon a forbidding crag in telling contradistinction with this book’s earlier diving ethos, abided by or broken. It is told as if in a believably relived monologue in a pub by one of the two participant climbers to some listeners, but by the end, it is even more chilling to realise perhaps that one of these listeners has blended with the breath of the story himself just as much as during the earlier event on hanging rock. The later War, too, turned out to be no ‘picnic’…
.Nathair Dhubh
A marvellously chilling serpent’s tale of a climb upon a forbidding crag in telling contradistinction with this book’s earlier diving ethos, abided by or broken. It is told as if in a believably relived monologue in a pub by one of the two participant climbers to some listeners, but by the end, it is even more chilling to realise perhaps that one of these listeners has blended with the breath of the story himself just as much as during the earlier event on hanging rock. The later War, too, turned out to be no ‘picnic’…
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