Shadowed by Horfield Gaol, the spiritual prison of Bristol's moral failures and legalised sadism.
Haunted by the spectre of Horfield Gaol, this district is rendered as a moral oubliette - a place where Bristol's ethical failures are incarcerated and forgotten. In *Odour Issues*, it is linked with legalised sadism, invoking the psychic toll of the penal system and its symbolic inheritance. The novel makes Horfield not a place, but a sentence.
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Odour Issues