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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PerkinsMatthew Tree|title=The ForrestsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= This is the chronicle of the Forrest family during the life of daughter Dorothy. They move ('they' being Dorothy, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father Frank, mother Lee a drunk and siblings Michael, Evelyn and little Ruthie) from New York to New Zealand chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the age any of seven years old. Frank hopes the migration will signal a change in his luck as well as a new life for his family. He's right in that changes follow but there are as many to shake their stability as to still it artistic passions all failed miserably and the past remains with each who had endless crises of them as well as the ''de'' ''facto'' adoptee Danielself confidence. IndeedSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Dorothy grows to realise that the past is a garment that's worn in some form throughout an entire lifetimecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883149X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Therese Anne FowlerMosby Woods|title=Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Therese Anne Fowler points out in her acknowledgements, views on the relationship between F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife and muse, Zelda, tend to split into 'Team Scott' and 'Team Zelda'. The former believe that it was ZeldaWest isn's instability and possessiveness that limited Scott's creative output while t the latter argue that dominant force it once was Scott's debauched behaviour that led to Zelda's mental problems. ''Z'' takes a more balanced view - the truth of Nobody in the matter West is that they needed each other but were tragically, mutually destructive. Getting the fact-based fiction tone right is always a challenge, and quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is exacerbated when the author gives best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a writer the narrative voicepush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, and Zelda there was a talented writer man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in her own right as well as this asset; a dancer, artist and general social phenomenon. However Fowler pulls it off with aplomb in man who can tell you what is a sensitive and engrossing story will happen given any set of Zelda - 'circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the First Flapper'most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444761404</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila Heti0571379559|title=How Should A Person Be?The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Much has been made in the media about the similarity in approach of Sheila Heti's fictionalised autobiographical 'The House of Broken Bricks'How Should A Person Be?'' and Lena Dunhamis the story of four people. Tess Hembry's HBO television series ''Girls''. They certainly share a similarly bleak and introspective view of liferoots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, both are apparently based she lives in the house on the writerriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's own experiencestood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, both have a somewhat knowingly shock factor particularly when it comes to sex complete the delivery rounds - and both leave me somewhat depressed and sadto bring in sufficient money. And both They have been critical successes in twin boys - Sonny and Max, the USrainbow twins. Indeed, Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'How Should A Person Be?s Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they' also features on the 2013 long list for the [[Women's Prize for Fiction 2013|Women's Prize for Fiction]]re related, although itmuch less twins and there's not easy to assess where the fiction starts and the reality stops. In fact, the conceit an assumption when Max is also somewhat similar to the scripted reality shows out with his mother that dominate certain television channels. The effect is something that is interesting as a concept and exercise but less than enjoyable to readshe's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557542</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=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)Kay Chronister|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=This With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in length. From the very short ''Spirit of Madame de Genlis''robotic takeover, warning a world devoid of the dire consequences of selecting literature for water or a mollycoddled princessnuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to the novella-length cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''The Enchanted WandererDesert Creatures'' telling the tale by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victims, Leskov (aided greatly by the talented translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks the mores, traditions, religion and superstitions of 19th century Russia fears that exist for humanity today. It is a modern readershipshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Taiye SelasiEric LaRocca|title=Ghana Must GoThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=Kweku Sai, father, husband Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and doctor, awakes early one morning how we as humans react and wanders outside into his Ghanaian gardenprocess them. As he gazes back at his houseMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, he suffers a fatal heart attack monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, during his last moments reflects on his life and by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a family fragmented. On hearing collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of his deathillness, his children grief and first wife Folasade look back on what they were before humiliation. Horrors that linger and, thanks in part are harder to Folasadedefeat than any ''s and KwekuBig Bad's actions, what they've become.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele RobertsMadelaine Lucas|title=IgnoranceThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Michèle Roberts's ''Ignorance'Love, I' is a beautifully writtend read, lyrical story about life in wartime France. Narrated mainly by two characters, Jeanne and Marie-Angèle, it jumps back and forward in time and is an enthralling mixture of guilt, faith, and survival. The two girls could not was supposed to be more different. Marie-Angèle is the grocer's daughter while Jeanne is the daughter of a Jewish mother who washes clothes for a living. The two girls together go to the village convent for their education but come from different ends of the social spectrum. When the German occupation arriveslight and weightless feeling, the two girls' experiences are very different but both are I had always longed for gravity'ignorant' of each others plight and their judgements are repeatedly shown to be wide of the mark. In fact the book could just as well have been titled 'Judgement'. Just when you think you know one through the eyes of the other, you get the opposite view of things. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408831155</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author= 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=Jami AttenbergJennifer Saint|title=The MiddlesteinsAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Two lovers write letters to each other about their love, their dreams and their separate lives; lives that they hope will one day merge once again to become ''I was as worthy as any oneof them. For Sasha life is the everyday grind with work and demanding loved ones along with the challenges they engenderI would get on board that ship, I vowed. For VolodenkaI would take my place, it's life not just in the Russian army and his eventual posting to Chinaname of the goddess. However their love is more complicated than most as more than geography and circumstance stands between them: they're also separated by It was for the decades… manysake of my name, many decadestoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780871058</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea EamesAmanthi Harris|title=The White ShadowBeautiful Place
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As Padma, a general principle I am young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a little tired place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of books as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations that start at have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the end''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. I want Padma's present fails to argue for escape her past and much like the musical score of a return to good old fashioned narrative where stories start film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the beginning, go on until the end, and then stopVilla. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565420</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=I J Kay178563335X|title=Mountains of the MoonSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The story starts harshlyWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, with sitting in on a release from prisonPCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, a bail hostelChristopher, a refuge for people with mental health problems as a bettercollects six-thanyear-nothingold Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-liedin-to-be-obtained kind of a sanctuary and a slow easing back into societylaw won't let her see her grandson. If you can call Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a housing association flatlovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with a decorating voucher the parish - and no furnitureshe's in awe of the vicar, Gail, only occasional power but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and annoying neighbours ''society''Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554739</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennie Rooney1398515388|title=Red JoanThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It is very obvious where Jennie Rooney has taken First of all, it was the idea for her novel ''Red Joan'' from. As she acknowledges fullyearthquake, it has its origin deep in the 1999 story of Melita Norwood whose espionage for ocean floor, which created the Russians wasn't discovered until she was tsunami and this, in her late 80sturn, but while Norwood was a dyed in caused the wool communist, Rooney offers a more complex back story to her character, Joannuclear meltdown. The result is a very different type of spy novel than normalwas complete and utter devastation. Joan The deaths were uncountable, a widowed grandmother, is going about her day to day life when MI5 come knocking on her door to ask about her pastand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The narrative switches between fact that many pets were separated from their questions to her and her recollections owners came far down the list of her time at Cambridge in priorities but - six months after the late 1930s where communist feelings were, by some, given tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a more sympathetic earconvenience store. When Joan falls for Leo, He wasn't a dog person but the cousin of her Russian born friend Sonya, she gets dragged into a world convenience store owner's comment that is dangerous he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and morally complexTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187573</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Hinojosa0989715337|title=The Conception of Zachary MusePapa on the Moon|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Evangeline Muse gives birth to Zachary alone in her special lagoon… but that's starting at 'Some frogs had gotten into the endwell. In '' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the beginningfragrant water, Thomas Greene is a tutor naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and Will Archer a talented wood carver who both accept employment from Michael Musebarked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. What they don't realise at ' How is that moment isfor an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, once they meet his beautiful daughterturning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, Evangeline, nothing will ever be who has the same again for any most wonderful turn of themphrase, starts as he means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9380905440</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew CowanDaisy Hildyard|title=Worthless MenEmergency|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you read a lot The summary of fiction about World War One, it's tempting to imagine pre-war England as an idyl of peace and innocence. Andrew Cowan's ''Worthless Men'this book doesn' depicts a much more gritty and earthy England. Set in 1916 in an industrial and market town, it weaves together several narratives that combine t come close to depict a hard life even before the outbreak of war. In fact, its easier to imagine the lure of adventure that the war initially offered as a change from the harsh realities of life at home, although by the time Cowan's novel begins, the grim reality of explaining what is involved has dampened much of this enthusiasmdone with the premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144475940X</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Meike ZiervogelSally Oliver |title=MagdaThe 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=Meet Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a woman who, despite praying to remain virginal, had seven childrendelight. Meet I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a woman whose mother thought her delight''hoity-toity'', and spoilt, and who thought she should go to work is perhaps using the expression in a factory at school age to know her place better. Meet a woman of whom her oldest daughter would write 'way I don't care what Mother saysm not familiar with. Mother isn't always rightI have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. NoFrom the little I have read (in translation, she definitely isnI don't.' All three women are, of course, one and the same, and they're Magda Goebbels, read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the woman who epitomised more than anyone fantastical – the Nazi wifemystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773401</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shani BoianjiuJennifer Saint|title=The People of Forever are not AfraidElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yael'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Lea and Avishag go through their final years at high school Elektra are all bit players in a little Israeli town on the Lebanese border and then on to the inevitable: story of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)Trojan War. Gender is immaterial, all Israeli citizens must serve at least two years and for these girls Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the moment arrives after graduation. Yael's posting seems futile as she guards a training base against marauding lads, sneaking across silent women have the border to pinch perfume from pockets rather than pose any real security threat. Lea's assignment on a border checkpoint searching most compelling stories and the daily line of immigrant workers is riddled with routine. Avishag joins up with her own demons, her brother Dan having died after his national service. She knows how it happened but continues to struggle with why; something she must handle alonemost extreme furies. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781090092</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Pym8409290103|title=A Glass of BlessingsIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Wilmet Forsyth is a married womanTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, childless to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and living thereafter Patrick was to send him a life of leisuremonthly allowance. She Patrick sent the money regularly and her friend Rowena met their husbands a correspondence - both Majors of sorts - in Italy, where they served as Wrens during sprang up between the war. Rowena now two although we hear more about what Lowry has three children and her husband David might just be developing a wandering eyeto say than Patrick. Wilmet It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's husbandt care for his son, Rodney, is still ''Noddy'it was that he didn' t care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his mother with whom they live. Unburdened by wife and other children or domestic responsibility Wilmet lunches or shops and becomes involved in the social life of the local church, St Luke's. But it's her relationship with Piers, Rowena's somewhat wayward brother, which might pose The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the biggest threat to her comfortable, if rather boring existenceyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085805</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni JordanAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Nine DaysRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Christopher 'Kip' Westaway lives in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia with mother Jean, sister Connie [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and his twin, Francis. Kip's mother considers him a layabout who doesn't deserve the special privileges of his educationally elite brother white and so he works at the big read in my house next door for the Hustings, caring for their horses. One day Mr Husting presents Kip with a shilling; their little secret. As its 1939, that's a fair amount of money And so Kip hides it awaywas this one, not realising how special that coin will become as the decades pass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444763555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Butler|title=Ten Things although I've Learnt About Love|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Alice returns home to spend time with her dying father. She's been travelling in Mongolia, finding temporary escape from the issues could have spelled that had haunted her life in London but nowmore accurately – this one was, on her returnand is, events bring the pain she thought was behind her into sharp focusblack and white and red. Meanwhile Daniel is Yes, he has an elderly vagrant who calls the streets of London home. He seeks his lost childartistic collaborator on this piece, leaving a trail of random items across the city in and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the hope of reunion like someone occupying a verse influence of ''Eleanor Rigby''. Disparate lives, seeking love and acceptance in a world that seems to exclude itsome striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447222490</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yan LiankeB098FFFBH9|title=Lenin's KissesSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yan LiankeFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's 2004 novel, ''Lenin's Kisses'', newly animal rights project leader and she and beautifully translated by Carlos Rojas, is her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a rare and fascinating example, not just great deal of Chinese fiction support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a writer living lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and working in Chinaher twin, but also a book that has won literary awards (Nick. Kate runs the prestigious Chinese ''Lao She Literary Award'')family business, now available a toy shop called Cornucopia in English. In many respectsPutney, the fact that this book won such a literary prize which is somewhat surprising - not I hasten to add because of any lack of quality - but because Lianke, who has previously sailed too close to the political wind for Chinese censors, here presents a not altogether flattering view of Chinese politics. Itwhere we'll meet Rachel's a book that is literary with a capital L, and while the core main (if unsuspected) source of the plot is relatively simple, what makes this book so interesting is the structure and way the story is toldinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701188073</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jan-Philipp SendkerYancey Williams|title=The Art Crosshairs of Hearing Heartbeatsthe Devil
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sendker Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is German-born (Hamburg 1960) getting on in years and worked as American correspondent for ''Stern'' (1990 to 95) , despite his strenuous objections and then as its Asian correspondent from '95 thanks to '99. He now lives in Berlin. This probably gives him enough global insight to write about a UShis daughter, finds himself living -born high flyer with an Asian heritage heading off to Burma to find out the truth of her fatheror imprisoned, from Eddie's disappearance. It probably also gives him the language skills to do it point of view - in English without recourse to a translator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697240X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Bernard Shaw|title=Cashel Byron's Profession|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Cashel Byron’s Profession'' is the fourth of five 'Novels room 315 of My Nonage',written by George Bernard Shaw in 1882. In the preface Garden of the bookEden nursing home, Shaw heavily criticises these early workswith only a trusty nursing aide, which were rejected by the publishing houses of the timeJenkins, blaming for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his immaturity and lack of experience stock-in life. He was clearly unhappy about the way he had written some -trade of writing though, so here, for his charactersreaders, stating that: '...he has not in are his nonage the satisfaction of knowing that wanderings through his guesses at life are true's work.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848547471</amazonuk>0986031658}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Womersley0008421714|title=The Low Road|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Wild is a man on the run. In a slow, underhand and underwhelming way he is leaving behind danger, mistakes and unhappiness in his past, and has fetched up in a nondescript motel. However this is only the beginning, for he is quickly ordered to put his medical training to good use in the case of Lee, when the latter is dumped into his care with a gunshot wound. Lee, too, is a man on the run - from danger, mistakes and unhappiness in his future. But this pairing are not the only people running in this pitch black thriller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Claudie Gallay|title=In the Gold of TimeVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A young father The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (I'm not sure we ever know his her first name) leaves his Montreuil apartment and takes his wife and their seven-year-old twin daughters only on the annual holiday last page) seemed to the coasteither be reading it or had already done so. They have a houseEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, La TémérairePatricia asked, overlooking as she was wrapping the sea a few kilometres south of Dieppe. Theybread, ''d bought the house just after the girls were born and go there every summer, and maybe for a weekend or two in the Spring. Never in winter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philippe Claudel|title=The Investigation|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=And you think you had it bad. Our hero gets off a train at the right station, but doesnisn't get collected by those this the first time he's working based a character on behalf of, canyou?''t have his order at the bar fulfilled She mentioned that Johanna, cannot get to the place of work on time, then cannot find the hotel almost opposite without a major trek through a snowy, unsavoury but completely empty cityprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. And when he gets to Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the hotel - well fact that and Johanna is the other people he meets there are a whole new category whore of odd. Is this how things are supposed to be Nantes - is this limbo''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, a nightmare or just a novel our hero is trapped in?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051547</amazonuk>unloveable wretch.''
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