Deborah J Ledford is the award-winning author of the Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran suspense thriller series, including Redemption and Havoc.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Ledford's reply:
I am currently fully immersed in a new mystery, and don’t tend to pleasure read the same genre while writing the first draft. And so, I chose the literary novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch for my cookie at the end of the day.Visit Deborah J Ledford's website.
Book seller aficionado Patrick Millikin at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore recommended this absolutely fascinating tale of a wife and mother who is forced to care for her young children alone when a new faction of Dublin’s secret police appear at her door and take her trade union husband away.
Soon the husband is lost to her, no way to find out if he’s alive or dead, or to even get word to him. As she continues to await, others in their tight-knit community disappear,never to be seen again as well. Are the arrests because of the men speaking up for the union, or a deeper and darker nefarious reason? Well, you’ll have to flip the pages to figure out the entire story within a story of what it takes to keep a family together and thrive without losing the conviction that makes a sisterhood of women strong, rather than breaking them.
Most fascinating about Prophet Song is the formatting and presentation on the pages. The book is beautiful to behold on the outside, and then when you open it up—what???? There are no paragraph breaks, no quotation marks, no “traditional” patterns readers are familiar with. But don’t let this be disconcerting. You quickly catch on to the intended method and soon get lost in the fascinating, heart wrenching, powerful read.
Prophet Song is the winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and worthy of a read, no matter your favorite genre.
Q&A with Deborah J Ledford.
The Page 69 Test: Redemption.
My Book, The Movie: Redemption.
The Page 69 Test: Havoc.
My Book, The Movie: Havoc.
--Marshal Zeringue
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