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From: The Independent - London | Date: September 19, 1999| Author: PAUL BINDING | Copyright information

Towards the end of Colm Tibn's latest novel, Helen O'Doherty, its dominant consciousness, takes a walk along the shore at dawn. At such an hour, she thinks: "the sea was more itself, monumental and untouchable. It was clear to her now, as though all week had been leading up to the realisation, that there was no need for people, that it did not matter whether there were people or not." Indeed, she feels, "it might have been better if there never had been people."

For to Helen, in her so...

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