A.S.H. Smyth

The great American trauma in minute detail

Lucy Ellman’s Ducks, Newburyport reviewed

issue 21 September 2019

  • Ducks, Newburyport

    Lucy Ellmann

    Galley Beggar Press, £14

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A.S.H Smyth is a journalist and radio presenter in the Falkland Islands. He was once selected to play cricket for the national side but couldn’t make it.

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