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|title=Familiar
|author=J Robert Lennon
|publisher=Serpent's Tail
|date=August 2013
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>
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|summary=A clever trick of a book that opens up marriage and self-knowing in a thriller fashion, making this slightly weird-seeming look at one woman's identity very intriguing indeed.
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Is there a greater change in the life of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silas, and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Sam. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universe. She pops from one car to another, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…
I must thank the kind Serpent's Tail people for my review copy.
Another Lennon book we heartily enjoyed was [[Castle by J Robert Lennon|Castle]], as well as [[See You In Paradise by J Robert Lennon|See You In Paradise]]. More more burgeoning female realisation, we loved [[The Gallery of Vanished Husbands by Natasha Solomons]]. You might also get a lot out of [[Inside by Alix Ohlin]]. You might also appreciate [[The Tell-Tale Heart by Jill Dawson]].
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