Charles Drazin: Mapping the Past: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge of Empire [2017] paperback HISTO yet also threatens to shake

yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created

With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town

in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive

sleep-bright eyes

Charles Drazin: Mapping the Past: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge of Empire [2017] paperback HISTO yet also threatens to shake'Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?' 'A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!' Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's father only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the west of Ireland where she had grown up, and of her father,