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Although Paul Read’s Blame exists in a few
narrative spaces, spanning various points in protagonist Lucas’s life,
ultimately they all lead to one common denominator: Lucas’s relationship with
his father.
n.b. This image contains a proof copy, not the final cover of the book.
In ‘A Conversation with the Author’ at the end
of The Magician’s Lie, Greer Macallister suggests that ‘writers are
illusionists who work in words’, a ‘kind of magician’. Though illusion forms the premise of the Macallister’s plot, it is her aptitude for truly enchanting
storytelling that carries the real magic of this book.