Rachel Seiffert

Adrift on the Canadian frontier: The Voyageur, by Paul Carlucci, reviewed

Based on the 19th-century ‘voyageur’ Alexis de Martin, Carlucci’s young protagonist is befriended by kindly strangers. But what are their true motives?

Dr William Beaumont inserts a tube into the torso of Alexis St Martin. Illustration of the historical case on which Carlucci’s novel is based. [Getty Images] 
issue 13 April 2024
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  • The Voyageur

    Paul Carlucci

    Swift Press, pp. 400, £16

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It is the great good fortune of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to be united by a common language, and a misfortune of even greater magnitude that they share that language with the United States. America is a very different country to the four Commonwealth realms sometimes brigaded together under the ugly acronym ‘Canzuk’.

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