Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick

Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick

1980s England, a warm spring night. While teenagers party out on the street, a teacher wades into a river and takes his life. This is how Alice Chadwick sets up her debut novel, Dark Like Under, a lavish and penetrating exploration of grief, and of how injustice, cruelty, and the weakness of adults weigh on the lives of children.   From the start, Chadwick pulls the reader in with scenes that evoke a time and place as unmistakable as it is allur…