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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]=={{adsense2}}==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-Grant295967572X|title=SketcherPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Nine-year-old Skid Beaumont lives Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his three brothers, father Alrick companion Django. Where they're going and mother Valerie in the swamps beyond what the New Orleans city limits. Life purpose of this journey is hard and home , is a rundown shack with no running water but theyuncertain. Django found the tickets ''re only there temporarily; a on the floor somewhere'temporarily' that and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is rather longclear either -term. Alrick moved them from their nice home but we are probably in New Orleans because the land was cheap past as the pair travel to the station by coach and soon the city would build out to envelop them. Years later they're still waiting for that to happen. Life isn’t exactly mundane though; there are rumours that when Skid's brother Frico draws left-handed, strange things seem to happentrain is a steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesco PacificoMakenna Goodman|title=The Story Helen of My PurityNowhere|rating=24.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In Francesco Pacifico's translated Italian novel 'The Story It could be argued that the pervading theme of My Purity', Piero Rosini this book is malaise - a 30 year oldhard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, ultraconservative Catholic working for a radical Catholic publishing house. His marriage is devoid disgraced professor on the brink of physical contact, losing both his career and he yearns for his virginal sister-in-lawrelationship, embodies this feeling. Largely to escape these longingsHowever, he heads for ParisGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, never radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the first choice former owner of one seeking to preserve their puritythe countryside house he's considering, where he is further tempted by Helen represents a slightly unlikely group of girls, and one volta in particularhis life, which is further complicated for him by her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the fact house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that she is Jewishpure consciousness, beyond form''. Almost Although she lives in an assisted living a separate life in his headfacility now, he cannot escape either Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the intellectual or physical constraints of his old life in Romesense are not altogether innocuous.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241145058</amazonuk>1804272205
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{{Frontpage
|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WalserThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Walk and other storiesTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The publication of this collection of around forty short stories affords ''How unctuous are the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that fats of reading Walseranother's life, possibly the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in the last century. He has received high praise how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'A Place in the Country', W G Sebald's recently published posthumous collection and he is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 and along with his poetry won him recognition with Berlin's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader and provokes him to new insights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony CartwrightJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=How I Killed Margaret ThatcherVaim|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=What motivates someone to become a killer? When ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the reader first meets Sean Bullpervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, he is nine years old, living a seemingly carefree and happy existence surrounded by his family and friends in a close-knit community fictional fishing village in Dudley, West Midlands. He loves Star Wars and playing football with his school friends Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and adores his teenage uncle JohnnyEline, who tells him stories and creates two of the most wonderful pieces of artprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781251576</amazonuk>1804271829
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenni FaganClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The PanopticonBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Imagine reading a Everything in this book set , however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a Scottish children’s care home. It’s about kiss, usually a violent symbol of intimacy and a deeply disturbed fifteen year old drug addict whocloseness, when she was eleven, found her prostitute foster mother murdered in the bathtubbecomes evidence of love lost. That’s When the set-up of Jenni Fagan’s narrator cries out internally, ''The Panopticoncome over here and kiss me,'', and that’s what it’s about – but the funny thing it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is that whatever you’re picturing in your head right nowXavier, and what I was imagining before I sat down to read ither ex-partner, bears absolutely no resemblance a ghost she conjures to the book Fagan has actually writtentest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099558645</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess RichardsHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Cooking with BonesLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Sisters Amber and Maya run away from homeFirst published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the city hearts of Paradon, its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and arrive in a small village. Finding an old cottage, the girls settle in comfortably, hidden sentences from the locals' sight while joining in with their customs as Amber backs honey cakes each night from proper position on the ingredients left daily outside the cottage page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the instructions lives of the former occupant's cookery books. Now they've moved away from their old life Amber tries to encourage Maya to stand on her own two feet which isn't easy. For Maya is a formwanderercharacters, engineered to reflect other's wants; a role in which it's difficult to exist normally, let alone while trying to adjust to change… and, indeed, unexpected deaththey are often left tragically incomplete.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444738038</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate AtkinsonJonathan Buckley|title=Life After LifeOne Boat|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Spanning the period from just before World War One to the end of World War Two, Kate Atkinson's 'One Boat'Life After Life'' tells is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the story reader into a contemplative realm of Ursula Todd. Or more accuratelyphilosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, it tells the potential stories of Ursula ToddTeresa. If you've seen the movie ''Sliding Doors'' then you will have some idea of Set against the concept Atkinson explores; that evocative backdrop of a small changes in life leading to different outcomescoastal Greek town, many this work masterfully captures the magic of which lead its setting and its power to tragic endings but strangely provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the book manages to be a celebration of reason she has visited it after the spirit death of Ursula and is often quite upliftingboth her parents. It's a book that sounds like it Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is going to be much more confusing than it is though meditative and deeply self-aware, inviting the result is a very special book indeedreader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It's that rare thing of is a book that has a strong literary style not only requires but which inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is also very readablefragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618670</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PerkinsEowyn Ivey|title=The ForrestsBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the chronicle story of Birdie, the Forrest family during young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the life Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of daughter DorothyEmaleen. They move (Described as a ''wild card'they' being Dorothy, father Frankshe feels stuck in her day-to-day life, mother Lee and siblings Michael, Evelyn yearns to cross the Wolverine river and little Ruthie) from New York live on the North Fork to New Zealand at the age fulfil her desires of seven years olda simple life surrounded by nature. Frank hopes the migration will signal When she meets Arthur Nielson, a change in his luck as well as strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a new life for his family. He's right in that changes follow but cabin over there are as many , she feels called to shake their stability as to still it go - and the past remains bring Emaleen with each of them as well as the ''de'' ''facto'' adoptee Danielher. IndeedWithout realising it, Dorothy grows to realise that the past is a garment thatthis calling will transform hers and Emaleen's worn in some form throughout an entire lifetimelives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883149X</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elif ShafakSally Rooney|title=HonourIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Jamila and Pembe are twins who, growing up among the Kurdish As always in TurkeyDostoyevsky, are as wrapped in the customs of character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their Muslim faith innermost dispositions and heritage as they are in the love of their familytemperaments with remarkable clarity. Jamila develops a talent that will make her the hub of her community|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4. Pembe5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's destiny lies over Room'' follows the sea narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as she migrates to England he navigates his torturous affair with her husband Adem Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in search of a better lifegay bar. HoweverWhile David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the destiny they travel towards is oh so different novel arises not from his infidelity but from the destiny deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of which they dreamhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Therese Anne FowlerAlba de Cespedes |title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldForbidden Notebook|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out in her acknowledgements, views on the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife and muse, Zelda, tend to split into 'Team Scott' and 'Team Zelda'. The former believe that it was Zelda's instability and possessiveness that limited Scott's creative output while the latter argue that it was Scott's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problems. ''Z'' takes a more balanced view - the truth This Italian work of the matter is that they needed each other but were tragically, mutually destructive. Getting the fact-based feminist fiction tone right is always a challenge, holds an air of suspense and this is exacerbated when tension from the author gives a writer the narrative voicemoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, and Zelda was a talented writer in purchases her own right as well as a dancerforbidden notebook, artist and general social phenomenon. However Fowler pulls it off with aplomb learns about herself in what is a sensitive the most intimate and engrossing story of Zelda - 'the First Flapper'revealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila HetiOttessa Moshfegh|title=How Should A Person Be?My Year of Rest and Relaxation
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Much has been made in the media about the similarity in approach At best, this novel is a scathing critique of Sheila Heti's fictionalised autobiographical ''How Should A Person Be?'' modern society and Lena Dunham's HBO television series ''Girls''. They certainly share a similarly bleak and introspective view reveals the fragility of lifehuman relationships; at worst, both are apparently based on it is the writer's own experiencecynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, both have a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes to sex and both leave me somewhat depressed slim, attractive and sad. And both have been critical successes newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the US. Indeed, ''How Should A Person Be?'' also features on the 2013 long list for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Women's Prize for Fiction]]world, although it's but resolves not easy to assess where the fiction starts and the reality stops. In lose sleep over it: in fact, the conceit is also somewhat similar to the scripted reality shows that dominate certain television channels. The effect is something that is interesting as a concept and exercise but less than enjoyable to readher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846557542</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara KingsolverMatthew Tree|title=Flight BehaviourWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in rural TennesseeTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Dellarobia Turnbow is a young mother, trapped in the result drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of a shotgun wedding in a largely loveless marriage on her husband's failing family farm dominated by the disapproval his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of her God-fearing mother in lawself confidence. She dreams of escape with equally unsuitable younger men until one day on her way So Tim applied himself to acting on this impulse for the first timehis studies, she encounters an act of nature that will change her life for good. Barbara Kingsolver perfectly captures in the opening paragraphs the sense of entrapment and dissatisfaction of Dellarobia cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and doesn't let up for a momentset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571290779</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is Can you make a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in length. From the very short ''Spirit of Madame de GenlisYo birthing person''joke? And if you could, warning of is the question should you make it? Or is the dire consequences of selecting literature for a mollycoddled princessquestion if you did, to would it land? The catch is that the novella-length answer for both could well be.... no. ''The Enchanted WandererFragility'' telling is set as the tale city of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victimsPortland, Oregon, Leskov (aided greatly by cautiously begins to emerge from the talented translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks restrictions imposed during the mores, traditions, religion and superstitions of 19th century Russia for a modern readership.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Taiye SelasiMosby Woods|title=Ghana Must GoA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Kweku Sai, father, husband and doctor, awakes early one morning and wanders outside into his Ghanaian gardenThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. As he gazes back at his houseA war here, he suffers a fatal heart attack andpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, during his last moments reflects on his life and there was a family fragmentedman with precognition. On hearing Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of his deathcircumstances. That man would be valuable, his children and first wife Folasade look back on what they were before and, thanks right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in part to Folasade's and Kweku's actionshistory. Imagine then, what they've becomethat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670919861</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele Roberts0571379559|title=IgnoranceThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Michèle Roberts's 'The House of Broken Bricks'Ignorance'is the story of four people. Tess Hembry' is a beautifully writtens roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, lyrical story about life she lives in wartime Francethe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Narrated mainly by two characters, Jeanne and Marie-Angèle Insubstantial as it might look, it jumps back and forward in 's stood the passage of time , storms and is an enthralling mixture of guiltfloods. Her husband, Richard, faithstruggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and survivalto bring in sufficient money. The two girls could not be more different. Marie They have twin boys -Angèle is Sonny and Max, the grocerrainbow twins. Sonny's daughter while Jeanne is the daughter of a Jewish colouring reflects his mother who washes clothes for a living's Jamaican heritage. The two girls together go to the village convent for their education but come from different ends of the social spectrumMax takes after his father. When the German occupation arrives, the two girls' experiences are very different but both are People don'ignorantt believe that they' of each others plight re related, much less twins and their judgements are repeatedly shown to be wide of the mark. In fact the book could just as well have been titled there'Judgements an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. Just when you think you know one through the eyes of the other, you get the opposite view of things. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408831155</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie TiffanyKay Chronister|title=Mateship with BirdsDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=In the early nineteen fifties With a lonelyworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, middlepost-aged farmer observed the birds on his land and recorded what he saw in the blank pages apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of his milk ledgerwater or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. His animals and ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the birds were his family and his land - difficult though it could be - fears that exist for humanity today. It is a part of himshocking 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. Whilst Harry watched It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and recordedprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', his neighbourwhether that is a home invader, Bettya monster or a ghost, watched Harry it usually something tangible and recorded , by the childhood illnesses and accidents end of her two childrenthe story, beatable. By day she worked in a nursing home where she was a lunchtime Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'wife', sitting at is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the bedside of some horrors of the old men in her care. Her daughter, Hazelillness, kept a nature notebook which was completely factual grief and accepting of birth and death in a way humiliation. Horrors that can only be achieved by those who live with livestock - linger and deadstock - on a daily basisare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anouk MarkovitsMadelaine Lucas|title=I Am ForbiddenThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The date is 1939 and the place is what we know as Romania and Hungary. Young Zalman Stern is stopped by soldiers and for a moment he feels this is his last moment on Earth. Meanwhile''Love, not too far awayI'd read, one moment 5 year old Josef Lichtenstein is playing with his baby sister, the next his childhood is deleted by the same bigotry was supposed to be a light and blood that deletes her. One day their paths will meet. This is the story of Zalmanweightless feeling, Josef, their descendants; their struggles, their beliefs; the cost of escape and the cost of remaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571943</amazonuk>}}but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie O'FarrellJennifer Saint|title=Instructions for a HeatwaveAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In London, in July 1976 it hadn't rained for months'I was as worthy as any one of them. Gardens - if you could call them I would get on board that any longer - were thick with aphids and what water there was, which was to be consumed or used for washingship, came from a standpipeI vowed. Robert Riordan told his wifeI would take my place, Gretta, that he was going round not just in the name of the corner to buy a newspapergoddess. This It was what he did every morningfor the sake of my name, but this time he didntoo. Atalanta''t come back Princess. The police weren't interested as the closer they looked the more it was obvious that there was an intention to disappearWarrior. Lover. Gretta turned to her three adult children for helpHero. But how much help would they - could they - be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358783</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea EamesAmanthi Harris|title=The White ShadowBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Padma, a general principle I am young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a little tired place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of books as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that start at have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the end''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. I want Padma's present fails to argue for escape her past and much like the musical score of a return to good old fashioned narrative where stories start film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stopVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565420</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=I J Kay178563335X|title=Mountains of the MoonSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story starts harshlyWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, with sitting in on a release from prisonPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, a bail hostelChristopher, a refuge for people with mental health problems as a bettercollects six-thanyear-nothingold Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-liedin-to-be-obtained kind of a sanctuary and a slow easing back into societylaw won't let her see her grandson. If you can call Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a housing association flatlovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with a decorating voucher the parish - and no furnitureshe's in awe of the vicar, Gail, only occasional power but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and annoying neighbours ''society''Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554739</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennie Rooney1398515388|title=Red JoanThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It is very obvious where Jennie Rooney has taken First of all, it was the idea for her novel ''Red Joan'' from. As she acknowledges fullyearthquake, it has its origin deep in the 1999 story of Melita Norwood whose espionage for ocean floor, which created the Russians wasn't discovered until she was tsunami and this, in her late 80sturn, but while Norwood was a dyed in caused the wool communist, Rooney offers a more complex back story to her character, Joannuclear meltdown. The result is a very different type of spy novel than normalwas complete and utter devastation. Joan The deaths were uncountable, a widowed grandmother, is going about her day to day life when MI5 come knocking on her door to ask about her pastand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The narrative switches between fact that many pets were separated from their questions to her and her recollections owners came far down the list of her time at Cambridge in priorities but - six months after the late 1930s where communist feelings were, by some, given tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a more sympathetic earconvenience store. When Joan falls for Leo, He wasn't a dog person but the cousin of her Russian born friend Sonya, she gets dragged into a world convenience store owner's comment that is dangerous he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and morally complexTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187573</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Hinojosa0989715337|title=The Conception of Zachary MusePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Evangeline Muse gives birth to Zachary alone in her special lagoon… but that's starting at 'Some frogs had gotten into the endwell. In the beginning, Thomas Greene is a tutor and Will Archer a talented wood carver who both accept employment from Michael Muse. What they don't realise at that moment is, once they meet his beautiful daughter, Evangeline, nothing will ever be the same again for any of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9380905440</amazonuk>}}'
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