My brother suggested this novel. It is well worth reading, though it demands a very lot from the reader. Old God’s Time, by Sebastian Barry is high literary fiction about a dreadful subject. (Barry is Irish.) The fogginess of protagonist Tom Kettle’s memories, and the misdirections of the plots, are quite deliberate. The style reminded me of Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant. I wonder if that was deliberate? A Google search reveals that as of now (July 2023) no reviewers seem to have thought about a link. Would be fun to play literary detective.