After producing two superb collections of short stories, Sweet Home and Dance Move, the Belfast-based writer Wendy Erskine has a lot to live up to in The Benefactors, her debut novel. The good news is that the shift has been achieved with no noticeable grinding of gears. Like all the best writers of fiction, Erskine is less interested in stylistic experiment or reductive polemics than in people and what makes them tick.
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