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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=TaraShea NesbitMatthew Tree|title=The Wives of Los Alamos|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=1943: In the US a group of men, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn to total secrecy. Their destination is a hastily knocked up, unfinished small town in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside down for nearly 3 years. This isn't mass abduction by a malevolent power but the US governmentWe's plan to end WWII. The men (and some of the women) are scientists, the place is Los Alamos, the site of the project that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating ''Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Orfeo|author=Richard Powersll Never Know
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|summary='No one thinks twice about the quietTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, older bohemian in the American Craftsman at 806 South Linden…people take up all kinds of hobbies in retirement.' Seventy-year-old Peter Els is an out-a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of-work composer in Pennsylvania. He teaches music appreciation being exceptional at a senior centre, but much any of his spare time is devoted to chemistry experiments. As a college student he agonised over the choice between chemistry artistic passions all failed miserably and music, in fact, and these days he wonders if he got it wrongwho had endless crises of self confidence. His avant-garde compositionsSo Tim applied himself to his studies, such as a three-hour opera based on medieval German history, were infrequent cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and never very well received. Should he have gone into biochemistry after all? Thus, thanks to a few thousand dollars' worth of semi-professional equipment purchased off the Internet, Els is now engaged in a new kind of composition – with bacterial DNA taking the place of musical notesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391614</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ron ButlinB0C47LV1PC|title=Ghost MoonFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54
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|summary=Maggie sits in an elderly personsCan you make a ''Yo birthing person' care home tgryig to exist through the ever tightening grip of dementia. Her son, Tom, visits trying to jog her memory but she doesn't even recognise him. To Maggiejoke? And if you could, Tom is 'Michael' a name that means nothing to a son getting more desperate to break through to his mother once again. However there was once a Michaelthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, in a life would it land? The catch is that bubbles with secrets that even Tom doesn't know; the answer for once, long ago, Maggie was youngboth could well be.... no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773770</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Indecent ActsMosby Woods|authortitle=Nick BrooksA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet GraceThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. She's Nobody in her fortiesthe West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, living with a hit-and-miss family push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in a Glasgow council flatactual charge. Imagine then, and in the middle of there was a whole host of issuesman with precognition. She has issues about her parents, and their moving on or deathImagine the strategic advantage in this asset; she has issues about her sister who might or might not have had a much superior life pattern than Grace; she has issues about her children – Francis who has left Grace with her own daughter to spend time with drink or drugs instead, and son Vincent, man who can tell you what will like as not create an issue by joining the army and moving on himselfhappen given any set of circumstances. Grace also has issues with the fact that she is nearly as blind as a batThat man would be valuable, and can neither read nor write. She's started right? Perhaps the novel where she shouldn't be – at home most valuable asset in Glasgow, struggling, as she was due to fly to meet her sister at lasthistory. Imagine then, yet packed her glasses in the case that must be the other end, and completely missed her flightthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754451</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=A Well-Tempered HeartThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Jan-Philipp SendkerFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ten years ''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 from the previous episoderiverbank, Julia Winbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, successful corporate lawyer specialising in intellectual property rights is exhaustedit's stood the passage of time, unhappy storms and alonefloods. Somewhat distant in all senses of the wordHer husband, Richard, if not exactly estrangedstruggles to grow his vegetables, from her mother to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and brotherMax, she has recently left a relationship the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that should have worked but just didnthey't re related, much less twins and her only real connection there's an assumption when Max is out with her artist friend Amy Leehis mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697285X</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|titleauthor=Something Like HappyKay Chronister|authortitle=John BurnsideDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesDystopian Fiction|summary=How do you pick With a name world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for a short story collection? It seems to me the ''..humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill.and other stories'' add-on Whether it is like picking a favourite childrobotic takeover, a promotion world devoid of one portion of the content above the rest. [[:Category:John Burnside|John Burnside]] has got water or a title story herenuclear holocaust, but such this genre is the mood of the book that he seems a way for humans to have nailed the matter, and picked the cathartically experience their most apposite nameexistential fears. ''Something Like HappyDesert Creatures'' could in by Kay Chronister is a way be new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the title fears that exist for practically every piece herehumanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=Brief Loves That Live Forever1803363002|author=Andrei MakineEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=Our unnamed narrator Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is inspired used as a way to think back through his life on the girls reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and women he has been in love withprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', partly because of whether that is a time spent with an associate – a time marked by home invader, a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with monster or a further woman – whom he deemed had never been loved. The associateghost, you seeit usually something tangible and, had spent half his adult life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan in by the end of the 1960sstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' Soviet Unionis not like that. This snappy volume takes us through episodes It is a collection of short stories more interested in several lives at different points during and since the second half horrors of communist rule – illness, grief and finally explains the import of humiliation. Horrors that unremarkable encounter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Prajwal ParajulyMadelaine Lucas|title=Land Where I FleeThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Chitralekha Guraamaa is preparing for her 84th birthday celebrations - her Chaurasi - and her grandchildren (or rather grandadults as they are now) arrive from around the world. They went away in search of a better life but better comes at ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a cost. Baghwati married beneath her caste, Manasa is resentful of an apparently helpless disabled father-in-law light and Agastaya hides a man-sized secret. All have one thing in common: the dread of facing their manipulativeweightless feeling, powerful grandmother and their inability to get on with each other. Worlds may collide but let the festivities commence!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872984</amazonuk>}}I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Last Boat HomeMichael Grothaus|authortitle=Dea BrovigBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Then: On the farm above a remote Norwegian hamlet''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, in 1976, schoolgirl Else is waiting for her mother or we can take steps to return through the wind and the snow. She is also clutching at the kitchen table as the contractions worsenchange it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Beggar and the HareJennifer Saint|authortitle=Tuomas KyroAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Our hero, Vatanescu, is a fish out ''I was as worthy as any one of waterthem. He's a father without his familyI would get on board that ship, a man without a home, a possibility without a chanceI vowed. He's being transported across Europe by a criminal people-smugglerI would take my place, who is also packing Vatanescu's sister off to the cosmetic surgeon then the prostitute trade. Our hero is destined to sit not just in discomfort, sleet and in hateful gazes of others as a beggar on the streets name of Helsinki. But at the same time impossibilities are amassing – one of which splits Vatanescu from his minder/mentor, and leaves him on the run with a fistful of useless currencygoddess. A further impossibility gifts him a friendly, warm companion – a rabbit being chased by local youths jumps into It was for the sanctuary sake of his armsmy name, and becomes a welcome source of focustoo. From then on many more jumps will be made from one impossibility to another, as the life of this illegal immigrant begins to resonate across his adopted homeland…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721641</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All That is Solid Melts into AirAmanthi Harris|authortitle=Darragh McKeonBeautiful Place|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=MoscowPadma, 1986, and a nine-year old piano prodigy is trapped in a subway station by bulliesyoung Sri Lankan, who carefully break one has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of his little fingersher home country. Rehearsal cancelled, the boy finds his favourite aunt, who takes him to treatment only to discover This is a place she spent her ex-husband the doctor involvedformative years. Many miles away It is not a slightly older young man is off on his first hunting trip with place she was born into, but the men one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the villageVilla, only to find diseased cowshow it became her home, and the grouse they seek sickly machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and weirdly uncoordinatedyet subtly violent novel. What has affected them, Padma's present fails to escape her past and will much like the musical score of course affect all the characters in the booka film, is that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the nuclear disaster in the plant at ChernobylVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670922706</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Black Snow178563335X|authortitle=Paul Lynch|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Barnabas Kane returned to his birthplace in Ireland with his family with the goal of setting up his own farm and raising his son in a better setting than New York. With his farm of a decent size and a good herd of cattle all seems well with Kane until out ploughing one day he and his farm hand Matthew Peoples spot smoke in the sky from the direction of his byre. The fire marks the start of a sometimes bleak downward spiral and Kane is forced to rely on the kindness of his neighbours who still see him as an outsider.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782062041</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Defences|author=Truman Capote|title=Breakfast at Tiffany's Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Holly Golightly. Who doesnWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she't know her? Whether s a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the pages of ''Breakfast at Tiffanychildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma'sdaughter-in-law won''t let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the short novel by Truman Capote or capture on film by Audrey HepburnNorfolk coast, she's an American icon. A young country girl becomes is a New York socialitelovely place, trading on amusement value but Rachel is struggling to make develop a life paid for by rich men who are titillated by her outrageous opinions real bond with the parish - and anecdotes. We she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she'want'' to know her. And s been doing the narrator ''wants'' to know her as much, if not job for more, than we thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would dothem some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HX9UTSE</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1398515388|title=The Crane WifeBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''The Crane Wife'' ticks First of all my boxes. It's by Patrick Ness who is one of my favourite writers of Young Adult fiction. It has a basis , it was the earthquake, deep in myth the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and legend and still better this, in an ancient story new to meturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. It doesn't go on The result was complete and on utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and Ariston for half a billion pagesthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Best The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of all, priorities but - six months after the author includes tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a shout-out for the brilliant Decemberists. I agree with Ness: this is dog outside a band you should look upconvenience store. A heavy reading schedule meant I didn He wasn't get to it last year when it was first published a dog person but now itthe convenience store owner's out comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in paperback and here I am. I wasn't disappointed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857868748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Dawson0989715337|title=The Tell-Tale Heart|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Being told that you have six months to live concentrates the mind most wonderfully: fifty is no age to die, even if you have lived life to the full. Patrick's heart was giving up Papa on him and the Professor of American Studies, philanderer and heavy drinker was at the head of the list for a heart transplant. His other problems - entirely of his own making - faded into insignificance. Sixteen-year-old Drew Beamish died in a motorcycle accident in the village where he lived in rural Cambridgeshire and it will be his (still beating) heart which is transplanted into Patrick. The two, who had never met, would be permanently joined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444731068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The People in the PhotoMoon|author=Helene GesternMarco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Hélène Hivert works at the Museum of the History of the Postcard. It is a job she loves, as she finds delving into other people's lives 'most exciting'. Luckily, she is 'regularly sent collections to catalogue', and each time Some frogs had gotten into the 'moment of discovery' gives her a thrillwell. It may be 'addictive', but 'There is something very moving about the thought that just two or three sources can be enough to build a picture of an entire life'. But what happens when the sources are a bit too close to home, when Hélène must play Holmes among the artefacts of her own family's past, pondering 'the silence of surfaces'? Well, the professional detachment goes straight out the window, and what had been a genuine pleasure, tinged by wonder, now becomes an uncomfortable obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313544</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric LundgrenDaisy Hildyard|title=The FacadesEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sven and Molly Norberg live in the American mid-western town The summary of Trude. At least Sven still does; Molly has gone missing. Night after night Sven leaves Kyle, his teenage son, home alone while he scours this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the streets, revisiting places that he and Molly wandered through together in order to find herpremise. Meanwhile Trude has problems of its own and the librarians are armed and ready!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647679</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Romy AshSally Oliver |title=FlounderingThe 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=Loretta collects her boys Jordy and Tom Early comments on this debut novel from school as if itEcuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 's a delight' is perhaps using the most normal thing expression in the world, but ita way I's m not; not for them anywayfamiliar with. Jordy and Tom I have been living with their grandparents after being abandoned by this woman who refuses to be called 'Mum'confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. As they get further from their eastern Australian home it remains an adventure for Tom but JordyFrom the little I have read (in translation, I don's more sullen. Once they arrive at their ultimate destination - t read Spanish) there does seem to be a ramshackle caravan park - Tom begins to understand why but not before both lads realise that their worries are just beginningtendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Audrey MageeJennifer Saint|title=The UndertakingElektra|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Peter Faber has decided to become part 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the new Nazi initiativeheavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. He will marry Katharina SpinellCassandra, a woman he won't even meet till their honeymoon. In return he'll receive honeymoon leave from the Russian front while she will secure a widow's pension should anything happen to himClytemnestra, hopefully providing and Elektra are all bit players in the Reich with one or two more Aryan babies on story of the wayTrojan War. Peter may not be Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the son-in-law Katharina's parents envisaged but their disappointment is blunted by their luxurious lifestyle under silent women have the patronage of most compelling stories and the sinister Dr Weinart. However, this is still wartime and Peter must eventually return to Russia and whatever fate awaits himmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391029</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Erens8409290103|title=The VirginsIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-80 in an elite boarding school broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the east coast money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the USA two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'The Virgins't care for his son, it was that he didn' tells the story of two young people. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked t care to have him in this country where he might be a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but her unlikely choice was Seung Jungdanger to his wife and other children. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship and it's The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the talk of Auburn Academy, but whilst the watchers believe that the relationship is one of unalloyed passion, the truth is rather different and the couple are set young man on a path to an inevitable tragedyhis way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CrumbsAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|authortitle=Miha MazziniRed is My Heart
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B098FFFBH9
|title=Snowcub
|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We are in a hell of manFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's own making – a town that is basically one huge foundry, whose men go from working there to animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a bar then competition entry to (someone's) bed highlight the way in three eight hour shifts, or so it seemswhich human beings exploit the animal world. Egon isn't one She gets a great deal of those mensupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, or isn't any morea lecturer at Imperial College, for he works at other things than the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fictionLondon, mother Kate and a lot of wheeling and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift in at the bar and in people's beds, thoughher twin, all the while looking out for number oneNick. He has several friendships on Kate runs the gofamily business, and several sexual partners at the same timea toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, yet drinks so much itwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's hard to say he exactly cherishes himself above all – main (if anything he doesn't care that much about anyoneunsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. He certainly cares for something however – his beloved stash of Cartier cologne has run out, and he'll as like as not do anything for more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Grace LoydYancey Williams|title=The Affairs Crosshairs of Othersthe Devil|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Five Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years ago Celia Cassilland, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's husband died leaving her point of view - in room 315 of the owner Garden of the Brooklyn apartment block in which she livesEden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. She's fastidious as to whom she lets and Nothing is understandably hesitant when George (one of her longstanding tenants) wants going to temporarily subkeep Eddie from his stock-in-let to a friend while he goes abroad. Celia eventually agrees and trade of writing though, so in moves Hopehere, a lady who has just left her husband and for whom his readers, are his wanderings through his life is as complicated as she makes Celia'swork.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871188</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donal Ryan0008421714|title=The Thing About DecemberMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always a nice boy, but a little slow - The problem began just after the one that the other kids picked on and itpublication of George March's much the same in adult life. If you were most successful novel to ask Johnsey he'd say that he was a gomdate. Even if you've never met Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the word before you know what last page) seemed to either be reading it means. It wasn't too bad whilst Daddy was there - he was a man with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey and his mother he or had some supportalready done so. But after her death Johnsey was dependant Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on small kindnesses from other people and at the mercy of those for whom he that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was an easy target. His life might have continued in this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for wrapping the collision of two events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781620091</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James McBride|title=The Good Lord Bird|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Henry bread, ''The Onionbut isn' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until t this the first time he's 17 due to based a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him to correct. character on you?'' The reason is She mentioned that Johanna, the person under this misapprehension is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on the principal character had 'her mannerisms'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounterPerhaps this would not have mattered, he discovers except for the fact that BrownJohanna is the whore of Nantes - 's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's that time of the 19th century when a shadow spreads over Americaweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious to thisunloved, unloveable wretch. He doesn't; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>'
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