Book review of The Drowned Siren by Callisto Lodwick (opens in new tab)

To work in a novel, you need to be the right amount of crazy. Too little and you just come across as a little odd and moany, too much and your book has just become a horror novel. In Callisto Lodwick’s The Drowned Siren, Eleanor is a student in Scotland who is introverted and clingy, but not really crazy enough to be anything other than navel-gazing youngster in their early 20s. However, this is a split time narrative, and there may be more to Eleanor than it first seems. A young woman cries ...