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|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jessie GreengrassMakenna Goodman|title=The High HouseHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Charles Darwin taught It could be argued that all living matter evolved the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief -place feeling that something in your progeny will then pass life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on theirsthe brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, that train of thought Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourseductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents The connection between Helen and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "itAs the former owner of the countryside house he's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising considering, Helen represents a child and living volta in a world on his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the precipice of catastrophe is what drives house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''The High Housean entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to livealtogether innocuous.|isbn=18007500721804272205
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|author=Charlie CarrollOlga Tokarczuk|title=The LipHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Melody Janie RoweWhat'' even s the name is evocative of…probably good of whatever we want a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it to be?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, and maybe thatHouse of Night''s , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the pointshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. To me But, the name sings of English folk music, but even constant in my use of that word Englishimage is the house, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is anti-emmetperceived. |isbn=15293341791804271918
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for 'How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this to become a problemtale. After his deathJust as T's story is being told, his wifethe story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, Lizzie - still only the daughter of a wealthy family in her late teens - was the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husbandtower, captures T's executorsimagination. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyAnnie's fate is, above all, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling an enticing story to tellingT. Lady Eustace was not It is a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, story which she maintainedconsumes avariciously, was her son. Andboth in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of coursemyth, her diamondsfable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Phineas FinnVaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi FinnEverything in this book, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clarehowever sweet or seemingly innocent, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyer. Phineas's interest is more steeped in making influential friends than in becoming anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a lawyer symbol of intimacy and one closeness, becomes evidence of themlove lost. When the narrator cries out internally, Barrington Erle''come over here and kiss me, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father '' it is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him less an invitation than a desperate attempt to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionconfirm her emotional numbness. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough The imagined recipient of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn plea isXavier, eventuallyher ex-partner, elected by a small marginghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the story of one woman page and two men who are vying with each other for her lovepositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to Like the lives of her cousincharacters, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Greythey are often left tragically incomplete. When we first meet Alice she|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''One Boat's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious is a deeply introspective novella that there's still defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a great deal contemplative realm of chemistry between John philosophical musings and Alice - fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and Kate is all for encouraging protagonist, Teresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the relationship as it would tie Alice magic of its setting and its power to herprovoke profound introspection. George wants Alice but Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and after the original engagement had fallen through because death of his infidelity and deceitfulnessboth her parents. This thread Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in reader into her own judgementlabyrinthine cogitations. You might It is a book that not like Alice to start with only requires but you will warm to herinspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764
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|author=Lucy HollandEowyn Ivey|title=SistersongBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of a genre I particularly enjoyBirdie, the modern retelling young mother of folk and fairy tales. These storiestoddler Emaleen, who longs for most of usa life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, are a cornerstone setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of childhood Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a fresh perspectivesimple life surrounded by nature. If handled well these retellings give new life When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and new meaning solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow go - and outdated, fleshing out charactersbring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, examining relationships this calling will transform hers and re-evaluating Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}} {{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the role chessboard of women. Sistersong life and is a perfect example something of a modern retelling done well, the plot grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is handled with caregripping and so brilliantly frustrating, keeping its archaic historical as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel but allowing . Among the characters to come to lifemany relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to feel real unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and humanPeter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live successful lawyer living inDublin. This is Following their father's passing after a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endlong battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=15290390370571365469
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarity.
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|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.
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|author=Alba de Cespedes
|title=Forbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and Sensibilitytension from the moment our protagonist, Pride and PrejudiceValeria Cossati, Mansfield Parkpurchases her forbidden notebook, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on learns about herself in the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles most intimate and they were in my inbox in a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onrevealing ways.|isbn=1782278222
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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey My Year of Rest and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenRelaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours At best, this novel is a scathing critique of listening for modern society and reveals the purchase fragility of one audio bookhuman relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and they're presented newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the order world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in which they were publishedher hibernation.|isbn=1784707422
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Matthew Tree|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, drunk and before we even know his gender or the nature chronic underachiever whose dreams of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue being exceptional at any of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, artistic passions all failed miserably and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings had endless crises of abandonment are still strongself confidence. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, So Tim applied himself to the lad's childhoodhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1939810965B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Mosby Woods|title=Kokoschka's DollA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=2.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from The West isn't the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of dominant force itonce was. I found things Nobody in the West is quite sure how to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in mend this or even if mending it is the middle on darker stock paperbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a chapter whose number was push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the 20actual charge. Imagine then,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so onthere was a man with precognition. It intrigued with Imagine the subterranean voice strategic advantage in this asset; a man hears in wartorn Dresden that who can tell you what little I knew will happen given any set of it mentionedcircumstances. That man would be valuable, tooright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. But you've seen the star rating Imagine then, that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it was not actually caused by them. So what happenedback?|isbn=1529402697B0C9SNG8R1
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|isbn=05713626720571379559|title=SnowThe House of Broken Bricks|author=John BanvilleFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=''WellThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, at least youit's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're a Wexford manrelated, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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|author= Tahi SaihateKay Chronister|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonDesert Creatures|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= We long With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for our past even though humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a place robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to which we can never returncathartically experience their most existential fears. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly SeasonDesert Creatures'' illustrates how these roseby Kay Chronister is a new work of post-tinted glasses often lieapocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Her It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a meditation on youth way to reflect our darkest emotions and how the things we do as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a teenager can seem intensely important collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and often life-alteringare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|isbn= 1916277101
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|author=Laura Imai MessinaMadelaine Lucas|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old blackLove, telephoneI'd read, disconnectedwas supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, that carries voices into the wind.but I had always longed for gravity'' It is Told from a real placeretrospective view, a necessary placeyoung woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, and I am pleased the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to see its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the IMPORTANT NOTE that backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the author attaches to 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her storyolder lover, that the place is not a tourist destinationdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how italtered her irrevocably.|isbn=178658039X0861546490
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|author=Amin MaaloufMichael Grothaus|title=The DisorientedBeautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back 'But fearing something and having it come to his homeland for 25 yearspass are two different things. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers And I'm willing to think bet most of him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friendwhat we fear will never happen, or maybewe can take steps to change it. The falling out was a long time ago, '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and Adam's partner has no idea acceptance. Of what it was about, even so she urges him means to go knowing that he'll regret not doing sobe human. Not knowing Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether he's going because he needs the development of technology is exciting or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next planefrightening. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY191458564X
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|author=Joanne M HarrisJennifer Saint|title=A Pocketful of CrowsAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= ''I have always been was as worthy as any one of the mind them. I would get on board that once you're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violenceship, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsI vowed. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does I would take my place, not produce poor onesjust in the name of the goddess. ''A Pocketful It was for the sake of Crowsmy name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is clearly aimed at raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the younger readers as witness opportunity comes – to join the use Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the middle initial chance to fight in the authorArtemis's name to differentiate from and carve out her adult offersown legendary place in history. Ignore What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you she marries, it will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightbe her undoing.|isbn=14732221841472292154
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|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Amanthi Harris|title=A Life Without EndBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I looked at Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the calendar Villa Hibiscus on the other week, and disappointedly realised I have southern coast of her home country. This is a birthday this year – I know, yet another oneplace she spent her formative years. It won't be one of the major numbersis not a place she was born into, but the time when I have the same number one she thinks of as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonhome. And then a few of How she came to be at the big 0-numbersVilla, how it became her home, and if all goes well, Ithe machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score''ll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eightythis gentle and yet subtly violent novel.) Now if that Padma's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have present fails to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would escape her past and much like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with musical score of a childfilm, which is that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingVilla. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701784631930
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|authorisbn= Maryse Condé178563335X|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a postPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six- world: postyear-colonialismold Hannah and her elder brother, post-modernismJamie, post truthwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post Thelma's daughter- in their categorisation-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novelon the Norfolk coast, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana''is a lovely place, Condé writes but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan parish - and Ivana are twins born she's in Guadeloupeawe of the vicar, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings Gail, but then she's been doing the job for each othermore than thirty years. As they grow up Rachel and move overseas, Christopher hoped that a walk on the ravages of a postbeach would do them some good -colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequencesit was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|isbn=1642860697
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|authorisbn= Ukamaka Olisakwe1398515388|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the trauma tsunami and heartache of being a woman this, in 1980s Nigeriaturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The title is ''Ogadinma Orresult was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is and the eponymous heroine loss of the storylivelihoods was widespread.. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice The fact that leads many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the story, although Olisakwe writes in third persontsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. This provides He wasn't a sense of detachment for dog person but the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her fatherconvenience store owner's home and sent to Lagos where she is married comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence open his car door and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escapeTamon the dog jumped in.|isbn=1911648160
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|authorisbn=Elliot Reed0989715337|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This is ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the story fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of a young boytheir eggs wove around him, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the death strange noise of his mother and his fatherthe buckets as he filled them.'s abandonment. However, it isn't told How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the usual narrative wayform of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. InsteadAnd author Marco North, who has the book is made up most wonderful turn of glossary entries, written by Williamphrase, starts as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving he means to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what go on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418
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