Writing Tips I Learned From Other Stuff: 'The Cradle' by Patrick Somerville

An occasional series where I look at books and films and television and songs that have inspired me and extrapolate a writing tip for you.

An occasional series where I look at books and films and television and songs that have inspired me and extrapolate a writing tip for you. Today: Patrick Somerville’s debut novel The Cradle is all about a small symbolic act that means the world for all the characters in the novel driving the story forward. It’s a quest novel where the subject of the que…