OK, Im admitting a big bias here. Im a huge fan of Barry Unsworth, I love books set in the Middle Ages, am a sap for historical mysteries, and tend to seek out books about art and the creative process. And thats all here in Morality Play, the story of a band of players who, upon arrival in a small village in 14th century England, decide to make a play based on the recent murder of a young boy from that village.
Each time I read this novel I notice something new. Unsworth is one of our master story tellers he won the Booker for Sacred Hunger -- and he has a cunning way of setting his history novels in a past that feels true both to that past and to today. Its no exaggeration for me to write that reading Unsworth got me back into reading novels, a practice Id abandoned for several years.
Each time I read this novel I notice something new. Unsworth is one of our master story tellers he won the Booker for Sacred Hunger -- and he has a cunning way of setting his history novels in a past that feels true both to that past and to today. Its no exaggeration for me to write that reading Unsworth got me back into reading novels, a practice Id abandoned for several years.
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