The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

O'Brien writes wonderful sentences ("The current, swift and dangerous, surges with a manic glee, chunks of wood and logs of ice borne along in its trail.") and wonderful paragraphs. She richly reveals her characters and the setting.

But I didn't care for the story at all. And the structure which at first seemed to serve a point of revealing various points of view in the Irish village of Cloonoila became a jumbled mess of characters and settings as the plot developed and we moved to London and beyond.

And the moments of horror were more than I cared to read. I'd rather be ignorant.

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