In ‘Sipsworth,’ a mouse helps a widow conquer loneliness
Like an inverted telescope, “Sipsworth” focuses attention on a world made quite small. Simon Van Booy’s novel concerns an 80-something woman who’s returned to the English town of her youth.
Helen Cartwright is a widow, and her only child, for reasons best left for readers to learn, is absent. Helen sees her homecoming as a harbor of the familiar, and a life devoid of the unplanned is exactly what she wants. Suddenly made lonely
