This one is a winner. A boy and his troubled mother nurture an unhealthy obsession with the MacBride family, whose patriarch once failed to grant the boy a scholarship at an English private school. Many years later his revenge culminates in a baby being taken from its mother. Grief, obsession, anorexia, post natal depression, affairs, abuse, kidnapping and dark secrets that eat away like a cancer – they’re all in there. Kelly handles them deftly, utilising a large range of believable characters. Set aside a day beside the fire or the beach and surrender yourself to The Burning Air. You know you want to.
