Blurred Faces
‘Exquisite… tender and romantic and yet searing with gritty reality’ —The Sunday Post
‘Radcliffe offers readers another emotionally resonant tale of family dynamics and the complex, fragile intimacies that come from childhood shame and secrets’ —Scotland on Sunday
‘A story of love and remembrance… evoked in rich imagery’ —Edinburgh Evening News
‘Radcliffe writes with an enviably economical and engaging style’ —Books from Scotland
‘I was quietly moved by Allan Radcliffe’s thoughtful, lovely story, steeped in vodka, bog-smell, and aging rain, about these wounded characters who tiptoe toward one another and risk the terrifying possibility of an un-haunted life. I want to believe they can do it’ —Jeanne Thornton, author of A/S/L and Summer Fun
‘Allan Radcliffe’s sophomore effort is an intimate tale of two souls attempting to find themselves, as well as each other. Character-driven yet cinematic, Blurred Faces is tenderly romantic and achingly poignant with a sharp complexity in what could be a spare story. The prose has a breathlessness, like the characters are anticipating a fall. Buffeted by their families as well as the choices they’ve made on their own, in the end, the two lovers discover that maybe they’re not broken; maybe they’re just bruised’ —Harker Jones, author of Until September
