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Claire Massey

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Middleton Sands door Claire Dean
Dystopia Beachcombing
Review of the Nightjar Press chapbook (November 2021)
The Thursday morning meet was usually better attended, but it was a neap tide, and the grey horizon was swollen with rain. Ted perched on the edge of the car boot to pull his walking boots on. He was there whatever the weather. He placed his shoes together on a mat in the corner of the empty boot and sat back down for a moment. John was already pacing up and down the car park, cables looped at his hip, gear bag over one shoulder, fancy recorder clipped to his belt. Expensive kit didn't make it any more likely you'd catch a trace of something, but that didn't stop the others comparing the sizes of their microphones. - Opening paragraph from Middleton Sands

See photograph at https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/55/85/2558551_5dd45cdd.jpg
Photograph of Middleton Sands, near Middleton, Lancashire, UK. Image sourced from Geograph.Org.UK.

Too many details would be a spoiler, so suffice it to say that Claire Dean's Middleton Sands portrays a future world where somethings have gone missing and a troupe of beachcombers at the title location are in search of them. Perhaps calling it dystopian or postapocalyptic would be a stretch. It could simply be read as a parable for the result of the current environmental and climate changes that the planet is going through. In any case, this is another intriguing title from the always terrific Nightjar Press.

I read Middleton Sands as part of a second batch of selections from the limited edition short story chapbooks published by Nightjar Press. Nightjar is run by Nicolas Royle, author and editor, who is probably best known for his annual selection of Best British Short Stories (2011+ and ongoing) and for the recent book-obsessive memoir White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (2021).… (meer)
 
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31
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½ 3.7
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8