Like a smile around them

“The most marvellous smile they’d ever seen, the biggest in the world.”

This is just as disturbing as I feared. Or hoped.
I shall now make this a voiceless review, except perhaps for chuckles off-stage, upon the raising of the Hughie Greene eyebrow. And, yes, insidious shifting sounds of an adolescent thick-skinned poltergeist. A rustling wedding dress and a cliff side, sea side scream. 

“After all this ugliness, like a slime around them,…”

#TheChildrenOfDynmouth by #WilliamTrevor

c.c. #HughieGreene #BennyHill #BruceForsyth

My review: https://t.co/1ZQBW5dMN2 pic.twitter.com/EMJrLuI8NJ

— Des Lewis (@DF_Lewis) August 2, 2021

THE CHILDREN OF DYNMOUTH by William Trevor

Full context here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/the-children-of-dynmouth-by-william-trevor/