The End of Nightwork

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According to Playfere’s pamphlet The End of Nightwork and the Sundering of the Curtain in Twayn, the end of the world will begin not in the Holy Land but on an island off the coast of Connemara.

Het plotse verouderen hoefde voor mij niet, de interesse in de oude profeet en in de nieuwe tegenbeweging ook niet, en wat schiet er dan nog over? With her last breath the grandmother blesses the Misfit unawares: “You’re one of my babies,” she says. but as I implied with my opening remarks the threads don’t form quite the completed tapestry I had hoped for. Along with Playfere’s prophecies, their Cassandra voices also provide Pol with meaning: “Because of the pauperisation and disfranchisement of the young by the old … the time for revolution and the restoration of the youth right is nigh.This is what life is like for you and me: we gradually age, very gradually, over a very long period of time. While Cottrell-Boyce is keen to link the millenarian dread of the 1650s with the environmental fears of our own times, the book is far from a campaigning “issues” novel. i also thought it was quite clever that he addresses his child as 'you' throughout the novel, which also felt quite prophetic in nature and showed, to me, how he became more removed emotionally from his family over time.

Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel.After Pol discovers Playfere through a lesson at school and a Ladybird book, he learns that his parents honeymooned on the same island in Connemara where Playfere led his people to wait for Armageddon (Playfere had identified it as the location due to a misunderstanding). The amount of somatotropin that you expect to be released in a decade was released in only a few hours. Against this increasingly fraught backdrop, Pol’s dormant condition threatens to resurface – putting both the safety and happiness of his family at risk.

The End of Nightwork braids the domestic with the political, showing both in a state of collapse: as Pol’s marriage slowly degrades, a radical organisation gathers momentum, looking to take power back for the world’s youth. But when he sees his father, Jacob, the “inspired Heresiarch”, “stricken by God’s fire” while sitting on “an enormous china chamberpot”, he understands “the divine anger of saintly men”.As that movement becomes increasingly militant and opposed to the “Hoarist” establishment ( “as in ‘hoary’: like the old-fashioned world for geriatric. Meanwhile, Jesse begins acting out at school and Pol’s mother’s dementia and his own increasingly vivid dreams lead him to re-examine the knotty dynamics of his family. It is hard to pin down what this book is at times, but the core premise of the book, and the de-ageing process, sits alongside some very interesting and weird asides, but was very singular in a fascinating way. Alison Hart – a medium and survivor of childhood abuse – lives between worlds, between the past and the present, between the living and the dead, between the astral plane and Aldershot.