I really enjoyed this odd book although I am left with a sense I didn't get it! It offers a dystopian low-tech vision of a West Country fishing village where the waters are poisoned, rare catches are confined to strange mutated fish and jellies, and a cordon of empty container ships marks off a no-go zone offshore. I found The Many more enjoyable and resonant than Howard Jacobson's J (2014). it's significantly shorter, and the writing more atmospheric, powerfully written and haunting.
I liked the relationship of the various time-periods as it not always what you assumed.
The book is a metaphor about grief but it left a lot of unanswered questions.
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