A review by didactylos
Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told: A Novel by Tom Phelan

2.0

Very hard going.partly that is the lack of any awareness the reader may not know some of the words in the book or what they mean....Sodality for example, partly because the plot - such as it is - does not actually make much sense or have any real purpose - partly because the shifting narrative positions are just downright confusing - partly because some of the material has no relevance to what the narrator would have seen or known (whichever of the many narrators is featured at the time). I have a sense of an almost poetic ability to describe and put you vividly in the moment - the trouble is the vehicle chosen doesn’t work.