Mick Jackson has only written a few books, but what he has written is pretty special. His first book, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His new book, The Widow’s Tale, is really good. The story begins with a woman running out of her house, very distraught, jumping into her car and driving away. She ends up on the Norfolk coast, an area we begin to understand is important to her story. Her husband has just died, and she is fleeing from her unrelenting grief and the the wreckage of her marriage. She rents a small house in a fishing village and tries to come to terms with where her life has led. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, it’s a great story.
