Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Synthesing too much material into what is a moderately scaled work backfires as the narrative bends under the sheer weight of numbers
Common Cause
by Kate Hunter
Fledgling Press, £9.99
COMMON CAUSE is an almost immediate sequel to Kate Hunter’s powerfully focused debut novel, The Caseroom.
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