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The road trip from hell: Elegy, Southwest, by Madeleine Watts, reviewed

Watts skilfully conjures a sense of impending doom as a young couple’s expedition to the American Southwest is threatened by deadly fires sweeping through California

Chloë Ashby
Madeleine Watts. 
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    Madeleine Watts

    Pushkin Press, pp. 288, £18

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