Are novelists required to like humans? It’s fair to say, on the evidence of her published writing, that Sara Baume is not a people person. Her first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015), tells the story of Ray, a self-proclaimed misfit who goes on the run in rural Ireland with One Eye, his adopted dog. […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/05/25/seeing-through-it-all-seven-steeples-sara-baume/