![]() “When I drive past a children’s playground, some au-pair nearly always makes a mental note of my registration number.” Supermarket cashiers take a bathroom break when they see him waiting in the queue. ![]() Men step out of the way when Ray passes on the street. Now, at fifty-seven, he finds a kindred spirit in hairy, malodorous One Eye, who is prone to aggression. Ray was bullied as a schoolboy-“I didn’t really believe I was of the same species” as other children, he says-and his father cruelly neglected him. Her first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015), tells the story of Ray, a self-proclaimed misfit who goes on the run in rural Ireland with One Eye, his adopted dog. ![]() Are novelists required to like humans? It’s fair to say, on the evidence of her published writing, that Sara Baume is not a people person. ![]()
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