Today on Morning Focus our Monthly Book Club returned, with Peter Downes and Cora Gunter of Clare County Library reviewing The Middle Place, by Kealan Ryan.
The book tells the story of a character called Chris who dies suddenly from being punched. He’s stuck in this middle place with the ability to delve into the individual lives he cares about – to know what they are feeling and thinking. He is beginning to realise that in life he wasn’t such a great guy. In death, he can’t say goodbye to his wife, toddler son and friends. He is determined to figure out how to haunt the person who killed him. Chris wants to rise again, to live again. He wants to feel his wife again, feel the air in his lungs, feel the sea again but something won’t let him go.
If you missed this month’s Book Club, you can listen back below:
