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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James KelmanMatthew Tree|title=If it is Your LifeWe'll Never Know|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=''If This Is Your Life'' is not so much a collection of short stories as a collection of pieces of creative writing. Kelman doesn't really do 'stories'. In nineteen pieces of writing of varying length from just a single page to more lengthy pieces, such as the story that gives its title to this collection, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of society4. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yoko Ogawa|title=The Housekeeper and the Professor |rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I never really got on with maths at school. Or sport. So Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a book that seems to deal with both baseball drunk and mathematics ought to fly to the bottom chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of my 'to read' pile. However, this slim little Japanese novel slipped into my hands his artistic passions all failed miserably and into my heart as soon as I saw it. The premise is very simple - a young housekeeper is assigned to a job working for an elderly, brain damaged professor who had endless crises of mathematicsself confidence. He has only eighty minutes of short-term memory, so he doesn't remember her from one day So Tim applied himself to the nexthis studies, but cultivated his memory pre-1975 remains intact and somehow he continues to function, living through abilities rather than his obsession with numbers. Each morning he greets her at the door asking for her birth date daydreams and her telephone number. He finds puzzles and equations in everything, including shoe sizes and baseball, and the housekeeper becomes fascinated as she and her son also begin to see the beauty and the poetry in numbersset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099521342</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glen DuncanB0C47LV1PC|title=A Day and a Night and a DayFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Augustus Rose was brought up in New York, but not in Can you make a des res, in an altogether grittier part of the city. ' ... his childhood in East Harlem, darkness framing the blistered stoop, the blinding asphalt, the smell of garbage cans and urine.' HeYo birthing person''s had an unfortunate start in life. Motherjoke? And if you could, white, father (unknown) black so that makes is the young Augustus an in-between, a not-sure, a neither-one-colour-nor-the-other. Today, in question should you make it? Or is the 21st centuryquestion if you did, no one would raise an eyebrow, bat an eyelid. But this novel it land? The catch is set in that the 1960s where racial tensions aboundanswer for both could well be. Yes, even in cosmopolitan cities such as New York.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394175</amazonuk>}}.. no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerMosby Woods|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and A Whirly Man Loses His JudgeTurn
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in t the mountainsdominant force it once was. Several families, all Nobody in the same cult, seem West is quite sure how to have killed themselves on their path to wherevermend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. If soA war here, this a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a problem, for man with precognition. Imagine the last time it happened, strategic advantage in Switzerland this asset; a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and man who was there to dispose of some can tell you what will happen given any set of the evidencecircumstances. This isn't a problem for the policeman involvedThat man would be valuable, as he fell desperately in love with right? Perhaps the investigative judge most valuable asset in collaborating on the initial casehistory. Combining againImagine then, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composerthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marilyn Chin0571379559|title=Revenge The House of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Revenge ''The 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 Mooncake Vixen (ohriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, how I love that title!) will almost certainly not be to everyoneit's tastestood the passage of time, but I confess that I loved its originalitystorms and floods. Her husband, Richard, boldnessstruggles to grow his vegetables, sassy style to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the humour of itrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144612</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?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juli ZehKay Chronister|title=Dark MatterDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Dark MatterDesert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is translated from German and nothing has been 'lost in translation' here. The lives a new work of two very bright academics are interwoven throughout. Students Sebastian and Oskar are the very best post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of friends; it's almost as if they share the same heartbeat. However, as they grow into adulthood real life comes along and tends to get in the way. Sebastian settles fears that exist for domestic blisshumanity today. Their friendship cools off, becomes It is a little tense and strainedshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552087</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Margaret ForsterEric LaRocca|title=Isa and MayThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Isamay Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a would-be academic way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and sheprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a 's writing 'Big Bad'', whether that is a thesis about grandmothers in historyhome invader, inspireda monster or a ghost, one suspects, by her own grandmothersit usually something tangible and, Isa and May. Her efforts are constantly diverted by the present needs end of her grandmothers and the secrets about their pasts which rise to the surface when she least expects themstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There's another complication too' is not like that. Isamay It is a collection of short stories more interested in her thirties and has never wanted a child, but reconsiders, despite the fact that her partnerhorrors of illness, Ian, is adamant that he doesn't want childrengrief and humiliation. The more Isamay delves, the more she realises Horrors that there linger and are secrets in Ianharder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''s past too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184663</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn StockettMadelaine Lucas|title=The HelpThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Aatish Taseer is probably best known for his journalism''Love, publishing regularly in the Indian press, in ProspectI'd read, was supposed to be a light and perhaps most prolifically in Time magazine. He has won acclaim for his memoir: Stranger to History in which heweightless feeling, raised by his Indian Sikh mother, traces his absent Muslim father across the border in Pakistan – and also but I had always longed for his translations of the short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918504</amazonuk>}}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=Rose TremainJennifer Saint|title=TrespassAtalanta|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in the hills ''I was as worthy as any one of Southern France, Trespass is a novel about sibling love and rivalrythem. I would get on board that ship, disputed territory and ultimately revengeI vowed. In the French corner are Aramon Lunel, resident of the Mas LunelI would take my place, and his sister Audrun who lives in a cottage not just in the grounds. In name of the English corner are Victoria Verey, a garden designer, and her partner, an untalented watercolourist, Kittygoddess. The catalyst that brings these together is It was for the arrival in France sake of Anthony Vereymy name, Victoria's sister whose exclusive antiques business in London is failing and who decides to follow his sister in finding a new life in Francetoo. Aramon is tempted to sell his family Mas by the lure of Atalanta'foreign' money even if that means that his sister's house has to be destroyed to secure the deal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701177942</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganAmanthi Harris|title=No and MeBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Lou is Padma, a cleveryoung Sri Lankan, clever child with an IQ approaching 160has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. She's thirteen, but This is a place she's been moved up two spent her formative years at school and . It is not a place she compares her flat chestedwas born into, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer groupbut the one she thinks of as home. Funnily enough How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her only real friend at school is Lucashome, who's seventeen and such a rebel the machinations that hehave flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score's been moved down two years. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago this gentle and her mother has been severely depressed ever sinceyet subtly violent novel. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get musical score of a great deal of attention from him eitherfilm, so distracted is hethat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joshua Ferris 178563335X|title=The UnnamedSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tim Farnsworth seemed When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to have it allpick the children up. He loved his wife Jane Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter Becka and his job as a partner -in prestigious -law firm was enjoyable, fulfilling and financially rewardingwon't let her see her grandson. The fly in Holthorpe, on the ointment was that sometimes he was overtaken by Norfolk coast, is a compulsion lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to walk. The time develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of daythe vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the weather or the occasion did not matter – when the compulsion came he had to walk until he was physically exhausted and fell asleep immediately after calling his wife to come and collect himjob for more than thirty years. There seemed to be no medical explanation for what Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was happening – and Tim and Jane had tried every source they could find – stormy but Tim it was still reluctant to accept that this was a mental rather than a physical illnessprobably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917702</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Treasure1398515388|title=BesottedThe Boy and the Dog|rating=4|genreauthor=Literary Fiction|summary=It is late August 1982, the day when O level results come out. Michael Cartwright already knows he has failed his exams Seishu Hase and is dreading his parents finding out. He, his twin brother Kieran Alison Watts (who has done very welltranslator) and their younger sisters are on the family holiday, staying with their mother's parents in Kilross, County Cork. To escape boredom and his parents' anger, he wanders round the village, where he meets Fergal Noonan, training to be a priest, and lively Peggy O'Connor. He has his first kiss and a bit more with Peggy. The family soon goes home to Cheltenham, but their brief visit to Ireland will have far reaching significance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laila Lalami |title=Secret Son|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Secret Son'' is First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the story of Youssef El-Mekkitsunami and this, in turn, caused the slum-dwelling teenage son of single mother Rachidanuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Youssef has always been told that his father is dead The deaths were uncountable, so when he finds out his mother has lied to conceal and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that he was born out many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of wedlock, he plunges headlong into an identity crisispriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He tracks down his real father, wasn't a wealthy businessman called Nabil Amrani who is surprisingly enthusiastic about his illegitimate sondog person but the convenience store owner's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his daughter car door and he seizes this opportunity to mould Youssef into Tamon the obedient son he has always wanteddog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind Adiga0989715337|title=The White Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Balram Halwai, a Bangalore entrepreneur (of sorts) and a natural philosopher, hears that there is a planned visit from the Chinese leader to India to learn the source of Indian entrepreneurial talent. Balram knows that the story he will be told by the Indian leader will be a long way from the true story of modern Indian life, and so resolves, over the course of seven nights, to write to the Chinese premier with Papa on the story of his life and his own journey from a poor son of a rickshaw driver to the head of his own business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843547228</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoon|author=Matthew Condon|title=The Trout OperaMarco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Judges Carrington and Thorpe recline in leather armchairs on the verandah of Buckley's Crossing hotel and watch in silence as a giant trout shuffles across 'Some frogs had gotten into the bridgewell. ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare MorrallDaisy Hildyard|title=The Man Who DisappearedEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I was drawn to The summary of this book straight away. Firstly, the jacket cover is lovely. The subliminal message is read me, please read me. We are introduced to the Kendall family; mother, father and three children. All leading unremarkable, rather ordinary lives. The father, Felix, works hard doesn't come close to provide for his family. He loves them all dearly. They all love him back. It explaining what is a secure family unit. Until - completely out of the blue - he simply disappears. His family is distraught and mystified. We all know that a person cannot simply disappear. But Felix Kendall has taken himself off done with the radarpremise. Why?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994274</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Christopher IsherwoodSally Oliver |title=A Single ManThe Weight of Loss |rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you've ever wanted to know what goes Early comments on inside someone's mind you'll love this short debut novelfrom Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first published back – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in 1964a way I'm not familiar with. We join George Falconer just at I have to confess my ignorance of the moment he awakes from sleep and witness his innermost thoughts as he goes about a typical daySpanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. It all sounds pretty dull and monotonous but what makes this exciting is that George isn't just any old professor living From the American Dreamlittle I have read (in translation, oh no, heI don's so detached from t read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the banal normality of fantastical – the world that he's almost outside of his own body at timesmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548828</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angelica GarnettJennifer Saint|title=The Unspoken TruthElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I would not normally start a review with 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the biography story of three women who live in the authorheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, but The Unspoken Truth is presented as autobiographical fiction by a child of the Bloomsbury Group – Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in fact the subtitle is 'A Quartet story of Bloomsbury Stories'the Trojan War. The blurb on Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the inside cover even identifies which character is based on silent women have the author in each of most compelling stories and the four stories, just in case we are not suremost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184353</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amos Oz8409290103|title=Rhyming Life and DeathIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Rhyming Love Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and Death is thereafter Patrick was to send him a kind monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of philosophical love letter to literature, or perhaps sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more so about what Lowry has to fictionsay than Patrick. It is wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a book about how danger to write, about the compulsion his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to write, and about the strange world that get the writer of fiction must live inyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521024</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MurrayAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Skippy DiesRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Life [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in Seabrook College is a messmy house. Some of the staff are young enough to remember their own school days thereAnd so was this one, but many are certainly too old for although I could have spelled thatmore accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. A lot of the boys are victims of ragging and bullying for being too chunkyYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, or too smart - but some are so chunky and smart thereI think it's a certain kudos possible to them. The female say not one page lacks the influence of the species is a thing only spied from their own school next door, and only met by selling them ritalin as a weight-control pill, or meeting them at the very rare combined school discosome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241141826</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom WolfeB098FFFBH9|title=The Bonfire of the VanitiesSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In his own mind, bond trader Sherman McCoy Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a 'Master of competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the Universe'animal world. He has She gets a pleasant wifegreat deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a beautiful mistresslecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and a sweet six year old daughterher twin, Nick. Henry Lamb is a black student from Kate runs the projects. Under normal circumstancesfamily business, it's clear that McCoy's world and Lamb's world would never overlap. But when McCoy and his mistress Maria Ruskin end up lost a toy shop called Cornucopia in the BronxPutney, and an accident leads to Lamb being hit by McCoywhich is where we'll meet Rachel's Mercedes, a chain main (if unsuspected) source of events start which will lead to his downfallinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Cole-AdamsYancey Williams|title=Walking to Crosshairs of the MoonDevil|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We meet the main character Jessica, or Jess as she is usually called, deep in an emotional black hole. She can see no light at the end of the tunnel. And right from the start, right from page one, we have a sense of the beautiful and poetic language of Cole-Adams. 'Time and I have a new arrangement. We leave each other alone.' And indeed time is not important in this novel. We have all the time in the world would probably be the motto of the medical staff - if they had one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161348</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ru Freeman|title=A Disobedient Girl|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha's age. As children, the girls are the best of friends, but they are destined to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love child. Biso's husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it in the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Robson|title=Catch|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Catharine's husband Tom Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is away getting on business in Birminghamyears and, despite his strenuous objections and so Catharine awakes alone for the first time thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in their little cottage at room 315 of the end Garden of their lane. They moved there Eden nursing home, with only a few months previouslytrusty nursing aide, and since then Catharine has spent her days quietly awaiting her husband's return from work. She is sure that she will figure outJenkins, some day, what her purpose in life is. She thought it might be to have a baby, but they have been trying for some time and it hasn't happened as yetpalatable company. Meanwhile she waits, and thinks, and waits. In the lounge stands her piano, a stark reminder of the life she didn't manage Nothing is going to realise because although she studied music she found, quite quickly, that keep Eddie from his stock-in spite of being passionate she lacked any kind -trade of talent for it whatsoever. Sowriting though, on this dayso here, alone at homefor his readers, Catharine finds herself tormented by the pianoare his wanderings through his life's presence and over-thinking every second of the day. She worries away at who she is, and what her life is, as her loneliness and the day itself unravel around herwork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224090232</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Meno0008421714|title=The Great PerhapsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jonathan Casper faints when he sees clouds. His wife Madeline worries about everything, not least The problem began just after the way the pigeons that she is studying are murdering each other. Their seventeen year old daughter Amelia wants to overthrow the evil empire publication of capitalism and is making her own bomb, while fourteen year old Thisbe is looking for God and praying to him. JonathanGeorge March's father, seventy six year old Henry, is planning his disappearancemost successful novel to date. Jonathan and Madeline may be Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the verge of splitting up, last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the dismay of both daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Kostova|title=The Swan Thieves|rating=2|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=1999 – A renowned painterlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Robert OliverPatricia asked, goes madas she was wrapping the bread, attacking a painting with a knife. He's arrested, and sent to a psychiatrist who is also an artist. The psychiatrist, Andrew Marlowe, can'but isn't get his patient to talk to him, but tries to investigate what drove him to this by talking to his wife and his girlfriend, and reading some letters Oliver seems obsessed with. 1879 – Beatrice de Clerval, aspiring artist, corresponds with her uncle-by-marriage Olivier Vignot, the first time he's based a more experienced painter. Their letters will be found by Robert Oliver, 120 years later, and will lead to his loss of sanity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442404</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Atiq Rahimi|title=The Patience Stone|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Set in Afghanistancharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had ''The Patience Stoneher mannerisms'' is a partly allegorical tale of a Muslim wife tending to her comatose soldier husband who has been shot in the neck. As she cares for him Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the first time ever she fact that Johanna is able to speak to him without fear the whore of censorship and he becomesNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, for herpathetic, like the mythical Patience Stone to which you tell your troubles and when the stone finally burstsunloved, you are free from your tormentsunloveable wretch. But also this might mean the Apocalypse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184167</amazonuk>''
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