Cappy

“When the paintball game was over, there were only four of us. One, two, three, four. You, me, Jimmy and Johnny. Right?” Ten years after the disappearance of young Ryan, the past continues to cast a dark shadow over the lives of Cappy, Alice and Steve. The tragedy is the glue that binds them together; the suspicions, secrets, lies and deceit the rope that ties them to each other to suffer their guilt, their grief, their co-dependency and misery. Ten years later they still holler: “Olly olly oxen free.” waiting for an echo of truth, waiting to be forgiven, waiting for a measure of peace. “The plot in this book, like all Kim Dallesandro’s works, is really a framework against which she maps out a study of the psychological knots that bind people together. Most of what goes on goes on inside the characters’ heads, hearts and souls. Having said that, the ending still came as an immense shock to me.” D M Mitchell (author ‘Savoy; A Serious Life’)