Book review: The Brave
By Nicholas Evans Published by Little, Brown Borrow it from the library, buy it online or in a bookshop. Do whatever you have to do to get a copy but make sure that you read The Brave by Nicholas Evans. It’s amazing. If you want to read on, be warned that this is a biased review! Once upon a time, I read The Horse Whisperer by a certain Nicholas Evans, an author whom I had never heard of before. I don’t know what happened. I was suddenly under a spell. Nicholas Evans’s books, however, can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand. It was thus with great joy and expectation that I recently picked up The Brave , published this year after a (not so) patient wait of 6 years. The only disappointment of The Brave is that, once you start reading it, you know that it will inevitably have to end. So, what is so good about The Brave ? First of all, a brief outline of the story. The chapters alternate between the childhood and the adulthood of Tom Bedford. As a child, Tom grows up in the...