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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerMatthew Tree|title=The BeginnerWe's Goodbyell Never Know
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|summary=Gregory Pharoah is a professional photographer whose genre is sometimes photojournalism, but Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more commonly portraiture or nudes. Like than to be different from his jobfather, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his nature is towards the superficial. One day, returning from photographing a bishop (for clarity, this is a portrait assignment artistic passions all failed miserably and not a nude!) he is the only witness to a street robbery where Alice Fell is the victim. Alice is a fatalist who believes in some kind had endless crises of divine plan that means there is a reason for everythingself confidence. She's enigmaticSo Tim applied himself to his studies, by nature cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and by design as this is a quality that she enjoys cultivating. Thus these two different characters become part of the same story and what happens in the following six months is ultimately surprising and even shockingset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386352</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chochana BoukhobzaB0C47LV1PC|title=The Third DayFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in Jerusalem in the late 1980s, an elderly, JewishCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, celebrated cellist Elisheva is visiting Israel with her protégé, Rachel, ostensibly to give a concert performance. It quickly becomes apparent that Elisheva survived the Nazi camps by playing her music for the feared camp commander, known as the Butcher of Majdanek, and while on question should you make it? Or is the surface she survived this ordeal wellquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is clear that she has a darker intent with her three day visit. Through an underground network of Nazi hunters, she has managed to lure the Butcher from his home in Venezuela to visit Israelanswer for both could well be. Will they meet and what will happen when they do? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050966</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tan Twan Eng|title=The Garden of Evening Mists|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Malay Chinese Teoh Yun Ling travels to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya to meet the legendary Japanese garden designer and expert, Nakamura Aritomo. As the sole survivor of a World War II Japanese slave labour camp, Yun Ling has many reasons to hate the Japanese but some things are stronger than hatred. For, whilst in the camp, she promised her sister a Japanese garden. When life became difficult during interment, the sisters discussed and visualised the finished result to keep them hanging on. Ling's sister perished but the dream of a memorial garden drives her on. Nothing is that straightforward, though. The designer refuses the commission. Instead he suggests that she stays, as his apprentice, learning the art in order to become her own designer. Yun Ling agrees and discovers more than horticultural finesseno. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905802625</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BauerMosby Woods|title=Rocks in the BellyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jon BauerThe West isn's first novel, ''Rocks t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Belly''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, is an emotional journeya push for climate action there. The narrator A feeling that nobody is a man in his late 20s who has returned from Canada to visit his mother who has cancer of the brainactual charge. The narrator himself is emotionally damaged from the relationship that he had with his mother from childhood when she and her husband fostered children andImagine then, interspersed there was a man with precognition. Imagine the narrative, is the voice of narrator at eight years old and strategic advantage in particular telling the experience this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of one foster boy, Robertcircumstances. That man would be valuable, who we know from early on in right? Perhaps the book suffered a significant tragedy while most valuable asset in their carehistory. What that event was will be revealed in due courseImagine then, but it is clear that the young boy suffered hugely from jealousy of his mother's love for these foster childrenthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688450</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Johnson0571379559|title=The Orphan Master's SonHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Orphan MasterHouse of Broken Bricks's Son'' follows is the adventures story of Jun Do who has been born without any say in his futurefour people. For this is North KoreaTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, where all is organised for she lives in the good of house on the state or at the whim riverbank, built of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Ilbroken bricks. Jun Do starts his adult life Insubstantial as a member it might look, it's stood the passage of a state-sanctioned kidnap squad before joining a fishing boat as a 'listener'time, basically a spy monitoring storms and translating foreign radio trafficfloods. His troubles start when he discovers that being a good citizen isn't enough Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and sometimes a person needs something else to believe bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and fight for. This is an incredibly hard book to sum upMax, but I also realise this will be an awfully short review if I don't try, so here goes..the rainbow twins. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerbrand Bakker|title=The Detour|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Gerbrand BakkerSonny's Dutch novel, colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'The Detour't believe that they' translated by David Colmerre related, is a very odd story indeed. Mostly set in Snowdonia, the book tells the story of a Dutch woman, who gives her name as Emilie, who rents a remote farm. Shemuch less twins and there's clearly on the run from something, perhaps an affair assumption when Max is out with a student at the university where she was researching the works of Emily Dickinson, but it increasingly becomes clear his mother that this is only part of the story. Certainly her husband and parents back in the Netherlands have no clue where she has gone - or why. Once these details are established, the book takes a turn to the seriously odd which is more of a full blooded journey rather than a mere 'detour's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556392</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterClaire North|title=Burning Your BoatsHouse of Odysseus
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary='Burning your Boats' brings together Carter's early works and her uncollected short stories, alongside the collections 'Fireworks', 'The Bloody Chamber', 'Black Venus' and 'American GhostsWhat could matter more than love?'. Carter's ability to take the everyday and transform it into the fantastic is evident in stories that range from a cautionary tale of a musician in love with his instrument to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances in the Snow Pavilion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592916</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew GreenKay Chronister|title=Memoirs of an Imaginary FriendDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Max With a world that is 8 years oldbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. He likes Lego and Star Wars and playing with toy soldiersWhether 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. He can tell you 102 words ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that rhyme with treeexist for humanity today. He scarfs down grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken and rice. He does not like physical contact. He lives with his mum and dad who argue about what It is best for him and why he’s not normal like other boys and girlsa shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751547875</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Shalom AuslanderEric LaRocca|title=Hope: a TragedyThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Meet Solomon Kugel, who is almost universally known by his surnameHorror taps into something primeval within us. He It is about used as a way to join the list of kvetching Jewish heroes of comedy reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction, and at feature a very esteemed position in that list. He's a man who worries that by having had a kid he's betraying the boyBig Bad''s soul by bringing it into , whether that is a world such as this. He's forced to live with his motherhome invader, who continually expects a second Holocaust monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and complains about suffering from , by the firstend of the story, although she was not born thenbeatable. HeEric LaRocca's faced with the eternal dilemma of ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not finding gluten-free matzo bread for his observanceslike that. He's moved to It is a rural location, and found houses like his are on collection of short stories more interested in the hit-list horrors of an arsonistillness, but his new home has an even more unusual secretgrief and humiliation.Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447207653</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Grace McCleenMadelaine Lucas|title=The Land of DecorationThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel'Love, I''The Land of Decoration'' paints an originald read, unsettling, sometimes dark and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father who is was supposed to be a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world is nigh variety, it looks at bullying, both at school light and in more general societyweightless feeling, faith and the possible rejection thereof and the strength of childhood imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118681X</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=Terri ArmstrongJennifer Saint|title=Standing WaterAtalanta|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Dom has made the long flight from London to Australia and he's shattered'I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, physically and emotionallyI vowed. He's been busy getting on with his shiny new life I would take my place, not just in cosmopolitan London and has barely spared a thought for the folks back home. He's not relishing meeting up again with his brother Neal. Neal took over name of the family farm and land when their father diedgoddess. The two brothers are like chalk and cheese. They had nothing in common as young boys growing up and when Dom left It was for Europethe sake of my name, Neal was relievedtoo. But there is still an unsolved issue between them and itAtalanta's a biggy. Now that they're older and hopefully wiser, will they manage to talk about it and even resolve it. Time will tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908136006</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela CarterAmanthi Harris|title=Wise ChildrenBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Dora and Nora Chance are the twin daughters of Shakespearean actor Melchior Hazard and Pretty KittyPadma, the chambermaid at the theatrical boarding house where he was lodging in the First World War. Kitty died in childbirth and the girls were brought up by the woman they knew as Grandma. As for Melchiora young Sri Lankan, he preferred that it be thought that his twin brother Peregrine was responsible and Perry was not unhappy has returned to bear the burdenVilla Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. What Melchior didn't know was that the twin daughters which his first wife produced were actually sired by PerryThis is a place she spent her formative years. If you're getting confused, then bear in mind that there are more sets of twins to appear and that this It is comedy, not of the cheap canned laughter varietya place she was born into, but the one she thinks of the type written by the bard himselfas home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099981106</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicky Harlow|title=Amelia and How she came to be at the Virgin|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=Amelia is 13 years old and lives with Villa, how it became her motherhome, brother and extended family in 1980s Liverpool. Con, the machinations that have flowed through her great-uncle, is a psychiatrist with prestigious patients life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and a bit of a drink problem, Great-Aunt Edith is a devout Catholic with an inclination towards eccentricity and her brother, Julian, is a junkyyet subtly violent novel. Amelia Padma's mother tries present fails to hold everyone together but becomes slightly distracted when she inherits a convent in Ireland, complete with nuns. Amelia has escape her own problems, though. She sees visions of the Goddess Irena past and is pregnant with the next Messiah. (A girl this time as the original male Messiah didn't have much luck.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095600539X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Dunmore|title=The Greatcoat|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Set in 1952 in Yorkshire, a young couple move into a rented flat. Philip is like the new, young doctor while his new wife Isabel struggles with the isolated life with no friends or family and Philip's frequent absence due to the demands musical score of his job. Things take a turn to the spooky whenfilm, waking from under the warmth of the old greatcoat Isabel finds in the flat, she hears a tapping that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the window and finds there an RAF pilot, Alec, who appears to know Isabel intimatelyVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099564939</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Brothers178563335X|title=HinterlandSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Aryan (14) When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and his wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother Kabir (aged 8) are refugees, fleeing the horrors of their homelandJamie, Afghanistanwhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Equipped only Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with some money sewn into a belt the parish - and stories she's in awe of a promised land called Englandthe vicar, they learn about desperationGail, misplaced trust but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and other lessons normally kept from childrenChristopher 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>1408817756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon McGregor1398515388|title=This Isn't The Boy and the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like YouDog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's Spring 1924 First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in South Walesthe ocean floor, which created the tsunami and young undertaker Wilfred is going to learn the hard way how serious this, in turn, caused the trivial can benuclear meltdown. Fascinated by a girl's dress - worn very seductively by Grace, who he has met but twice as an adult - he blurts out a marriage proposalThe result was complete and utter devastation. As much as wants to take it backThe deaths were uncountable, she won't let himand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. He tries to move on, leaving her disappointed, especially when he falls for The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the daughter list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a man he buries, but..convenience store. There are things dangerously spoken, dangerously left unsaid, and He wasn't a complex web of divided loyalties dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and enforced connections, Tamon the dog jumped in this brilliant debut novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780330561</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fadi Azzam and Adam Talib (Translator)0989715337|title=SarmadaPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Sarmada' is small and remote village in Some frogs had gotten into the Northern hills of Syria, close to the Turkish borderwell. And for much of Azzam's novel it seems a forgotten village, lost in the rituals and mysticism of ancient Druze belief and folk tales that inform the collective consciousness of the place. For the novel weaves the tales of three Syrian women and their relationships with each other, the men of their lives and the fabric of a life almost caught in the timeless past of the Middle East.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906697345</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric-Emmanuel SchmittDaisy Hildyard|title=Noah's ChildEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Joseph, a young Belgian Jew, is sent away by his parents when they grow nervous about the treatment of Jews during World War Two. He is taken in by a village priest, Father Pons, and given a new identity and a place in Father Pons' school along with an assortment of other children, some of whom are genuine pupils and others who are, like Joseph, seeking sanctuary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874189</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=A Kind Man|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|The summary=Meet Eve, and her husband, the title character, Tommy. She's at a bit of a sticky wicket in life, for however much they want a baby, her sister and his feckless husband churn out son after son after son, and go no lengths at all to love them. So when Eve and Tommy do at last have a child, it's a tragedy for it to die when only three years old. But in this plot, which youbook doesn'll thank me for not going into further, there will be a lot more swings and roundabouts, of torment and ecstasy, doldrums and delights, hell and heaven, t come close to comeexplaining what is done with the premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555441</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Chris WomersleySally Oliver |title=BereftThe 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=Quinn WalkerEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a young Australian man fresh from fighting on delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the European front expression in World War One, returns to the very town he was drummed out of ten years before, after being accused of raping and killing his own younger sistera way I'm not familiar with. Two things I have beaten him to confess my ignorance of the small settlement Spanish- one, the global flu pandemic; two a telegram saying he died bravely in action earlier in the warlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. And From the less you know of what he meets and does back little I have read (in Flint the bettertranslation, the more to keep this fresh and brilliant bookI don's many intrigues as secret as they were for me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386549</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eric Orsenna|title=The Indies Enterprise|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As soon as you pick up a novel about Columbus's discovery of the Americas, certain expectations come to mind. Orsenna however is much more than your average writer and he manages t read Spanish) there does seem to subvert almost all of these by delivering a quiet, scholarly account of what seems at first be a diversion, tendency towards the art of map making. But this book is not about Columbus himself, but rather his brother Bartholomew, and how he is swept into fantastical – the excitement and ambition of his older siblingmystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906598932</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mahmoud DowlatabadiJennifer Saint|title=The ColonelElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel opens at dead of night in a house in Rasht in Gilan province, Iran. It is pouring with rain and 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the colonel story of the title is three women who live in the grip heavily male dominated world of extreme melancholiaAncient Greece. Two policemen Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are knocking on all bit players in the door. They are bringing news story of his youngest daughterthe Trojan War. This triggers a night of misery in which Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the colonel recalls his own past, most compelling stories and the tragic lives of his five childrenmost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906598894</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa Hadley8409290103|title=Married LoveIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Married Love is Tessa Hadley’s second collectionTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, containing twelve short stories looking at (mostly) modern relationships to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and family dynamics – many are about parents thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and their grown a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up children and in-laws, others are between the two although we hear more about coupleswhat Lowry has to say than Patrick. Flicking through the book It 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 danger to choose some of the best his wife and/or most interesting stories other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to mentionget the young man on his way.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, I Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have found a difficultyalways been black and white and read in my house. Almost all of these incisiveAnd so was this one, witty stories reveal an interesting group of characters although I would like to know could have spelled that more about after the endaccurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, sometimes from several different viewpointshe has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it is hard 's possible to pick out just a fewsay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096427</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louisa YoungB098FFFBH9|title=My Dear I Wanted to Tell YouSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It takes Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a while for competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the full power animal world. She gets a great deal of Louisa Young's remarkable ''My Dear I Wanted To Tell You'' to become apparentsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, but when it doesLondon, it can hardly fail to move you. Set just before mother Kate and during World War Oneher twin, it's a story of love and human spirit against the oddsNick. The impact of Kate runs the book is family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in what happens to the charactersPutney, so I donwhich is where we't want to give too much away, but it's worth pointing out that itll meet Rachel's not for the overly squeamish reader particularly in some of the descriptions of surgical procedures, which have clearly been meticulously researched by Young. The title itself it taken from the opening words main (if unsuspected) source of the standard letters that the wounded were given to send to loved ones back home. The wounded were required to fill in the blanksinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007361432</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonYancey Williams|title=West Crosshairs of Herethe Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The town of Port Bonita, located on problem began just after the Pacific coast publication of Washington State, is the setting – and almost a character itself, such is its importance – of Jonathan Evison’s newest George March's most successful novelto date. In a massively ambitious narrative, Everyone but Mrs March (we start at know her first name only on the Elwha River Dam in 2006, before just two pages later being transported back into the 1880’s, last page) seemed to see the town’s founding. A hundred pages either be reading it or had already done so later, we’re brought back . Every day Mrs March went to the 21st centurylocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, then returned to the 19thPatricia asked, and the cuts between scenes get faster and more furious as we seem to flip forwards and backwards in time without giving us much time to catch our breath. By 2006, she was wrapping the Dam is about to be destroyedbread, and we see the effect its construction has had on the local community and how the descendants of the original characters have turned out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331967</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janette Jenkins|title=Little Bones|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=While ''but isn't this might sound like the afterlife of first time he's based a brilliant and unlikely cabaret mimic, itcharacter on you?''s not. It's a richShe mentioned that Johanna, evocative and engaging novel set in the last years of Victoriaprincipal character had 's reign, in the depths of her darkest Londonmannerisms''. Fate - and being abandoned by, in turnPerhaps this would not have mattered, her mother and older sister - leaves Jane Stretch living with and working except for a doctor and his lumpen, housebound wife. Jane the fact that Johanna is alternatively called an the whore of Nantes - 'unfortunate' and a 'cripple' for her disabilities and distorted frameweak, plain, but she has enough bookish intelligence to pass herself off as an assistant to the doctordetestable, who only ever does one operation - abortionspathetic, for music hall artistes. The plot is evidently gearing up to reveal how dangerous such a criminal business might beunloved, for the both of themunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118194X</amazonuk>''
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