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{{newreview
|title=The Last Boat Home
|author=Dea Brovig
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Then: On the farm above a remote Norwegian hamlet, in 1976, schoolgirl Else is waiting for her mother to return through the wind and the snow. She is also clutching at the kitchen table as the contractions worsen.
 
Now: fast forward to 2009. Else now lives in the town the hamlet has grown into, on the back of oil money. Her daughter has a daughter of her own, but still spends many a night not coming home. ''She must have met someone'' the eleven-year-old granddaughter says matter-of-factly. Else has made a life for herself, running a spa, looking after her daughter and her granddaughter. A quiet life, but not such a bad one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954290</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|title=The Beggar and the Hare
Gary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Alice McDermott
|title=Someone
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marie is growing up in 1920s Brooklyn and, although not financially rich she's the secure, cared for child of Irish parents from one of the many waves of immigration which the US has promised to welcome. Marie's friend Pegeen is from Irish/Syrian stock and is dying for romantic love to come her way. Marie's brother Gabe is singled out for Catholic seminary and priesthood. Marie thinks the future is as safe as the loved ones around her but the future is an unknown country and her journey towards it hasn't finished yet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408847248</amazonuk>
}}

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