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|author=Claire-Louise BennettMakenna Goodman|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye Helen of Nowhere

|summary=Everything in It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in anguish and distortionyour life is not quite right. Even a kissThe protagonist, usually a symbol disgraced professor on the brink of intimacy losing both his career and closenesshis relationship, becomes evidence of love lostembodies this feeling. When the narrator cries out internallyHowever, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, ''come over here radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and kiss me,'' it the protagonist is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbnessindirect yet intimate. The imagined recipient As the former owner of this plea is Xavierthe countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures past tied to test her detachmenthis potential fresh start.|isbn=1804271934}}'''23 OCTOBER'''{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=describes her as ''All was strangean entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set Although she lives in Vaiman assisted living facility now, a fictional fishing village in Norway Helen has powers beyond comprehension which paradoxically could the reader gets the sense are not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic currentaltogether innocuous.|isbn=18042718291804272205