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|author=Eowyn IveyMakenna Goodman|title=Black Woods Blue SkyHelen of Nowhere|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}}'''13 MARCH'''{{Frontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley|title=One Boat|rating=4

|summary= ''One Boat'' It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a deeply introspective novella hard-to-place feeling that defies traditional narrative structuresomething in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, drawing a disgraced professor on the reader into a contemplative realm brink of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator losing both his career and protagonisthis relationship, Teresaembodies this feeling. Set against the evocative backdrop of However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a small coastal Greek townforce which is seductive, this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting radical and its power to provoke profound introspectionunnerving: Helen. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative The connection between Helen and deeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It protagonist is a book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsionindirect yet intimate.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary McCarthy|title=Memories As the former owner of a Catholic Girlhood|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Mary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'the countryside house he's considering, obsessively digging into the past to piece together the broken mosaic of her Helen represents a volta in his life. She attributes , her ''burning interest in the past'' tied to her orphanhood, as she lacked any second-hand memories from her parents, his potential fresh start. The realtor who died in shows the 1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early years, beginning with her orphanhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lived under protagonist around the harsh guardianship of her late father's Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and Aunt Margaret. Laterhouse shares stories about Helen, she moved to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and describes her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a different kind of upbringing.|isbn=1804271659}} as '''10 APRIL'an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''{{Frontpage|author=Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection was truly enchanting Although she lives in all senses of an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about reader gets the worldsense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=18042714701804272205