Monsters: A Reckoning by Alison Croggon review – beware the many-tentacled beast of empire

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Alison Croggon doesn’t wish her sister harm. She dreads the thought of any rogue accident or illness that might drag her back into what she experienced as the poisonous tangle of their relationship. Monsters: A Reckoning is a tale of siblings torn apart by a shared past – one sister’s wounded memories of the other. “Her suffering must always be much greater than the suffering of others – but what if it actually is? What then? No, I couldn’t bear it,” Croggon admits. “What kind of person reacts like that?” she asks us, or perhaps only herself. “What sort of person is cruel enough to write it down? Some kind of monster. Me, it seems.”

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