More book reviews Pt 2:
“The Offing” and “Smoke and Ashes”
CORONAVIRUS reading time. Two books that are very different from each other but both easy and good reads. THE OFFING, by a young writer, Benjamin Myers, was published in 2019. It has had some ecstatic reviews. Set in England just after the end of World War II, Robert Appleyard decides to take a year off after finishing school, and explore the world outside of the Durham Colliery, in which his family have been miners from generation to generation. Is he destined to mine the mines? His family expect so. He is not so sure. This is the vague fuel to…