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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Romy Ash295967572X|title=FlounderingPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Loretta collects her boys Jordy Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and Tom from school as if it's what the most normal thing in purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the world, but ittickets 's not; not for them anyway. Jordy and Tom have been living with their grandparents after being abandoned by this woman who refuses to be called 'Mumon the floor somewhere'. As they get further from their eastern Australian home it remains an adventure for Tom but Jordy's more sullenand has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Once they arrive at their ultimate destination Why not? Not much else is clear either - a ramshackle caravan park - Tom begins to understand why but not before both lads realise that their worries we are just beginningprobably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922087</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Makenna Goodman
|title=Helen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.
|isbn=1804272205
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{{Frontpage
|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Audrey MageeThea Lenarduzzi|title=The UndertakingTower
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Peter Faber has decided to become part ''How unctuous are the fats of the new Nazi initiative. He will marry Katharina Spinellanother's life, a woman he wonhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''t even meet till their honeymoon. In return he'll receive honeymoon leave from this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the Russian front while she will secure a widowprotagonist of this tale. Just as T's pension should anything happen to himstory is being told, hopefully providing the Reich with one or two more Aryan babies on story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the way. Peter may not be daughter of a wealthy family in the son-19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in-law Katharinaa tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's parents envisaged but their disappointment fate is blunted by their luxurious lifestyle under the patronage of the sinister Dr Weinart, above all, an enticing story to T. HoweverIt is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, this is still wartime and Peter must eventually return to Russia in service of myth, fable and whatever fate awaits himfantasy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391029</amazonuk>1804271799
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{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela ErensClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The VirginsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set Everything in 1979-80 this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in an elite boarding school on the east coast anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the USA narrator cries out internally, ''The Virginscome over here and kiss me,'' tells the story of two young people. The story it is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked less an invitation than a desperate attempt to have a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but confirm her unlikely choice was Seung Jungemotional numbness. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship and it's the talk The imagined recipient of Auburn Academythis plea is Xavier, but whilst the watchers believe that the relationship is one of unalloyed passionher ex-partner, the truth is rather different and the couple are set on a path ghost she conjures to an inevitable tragedytest her detachment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>1804271934
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CrumbsHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|authortitle=Miha MazziniLili is Crying|rating=34.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We are First published in 1953 in a hell of man's own making – a town that French, this novel is basically one huge foundry, whose men go from working there to a bar then to (someone's) bed in three eight hour shifts, or so it seems. Egon isn't one of those men, or isn't any more, for he works at other things than timeless text which wrenches the foundry – namely churning out trashy low-brow fiction, and a lot hearts of wheeling its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and a lot more dealing. He still keeps his shift in at sentences from their proper position on the bar page and in people's bedspositions them elsewhere, thoughdisjointed, all the while looking out for number onetruncated. He has several friendships on Like the golives of her characters, and several sexual partners at the same time, yet drinks so much it's hard to say he exactly cherishes himself above all – if anything he doesn't care that much about anyonethey are often left tragically incomplete. He certainly cares for something however – his beloved stash of Cartier cologne has run out, and he'll as like as not do anything for more…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754397</amazonuk>1804271675
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Grace LoydJonathan Buckley|title=The Affairs of OthersOne Boat
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Five years ago Celia Cassill's husband died leaving her 'One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator and protagonist, Teresa. Set against the owner evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, this work masterfully captures the Brooklyn apartment block in which she livesmagic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. She's fastidious Teresa herself recognises these qualities as to whom the reason she lets and is understandably hesitant when George (one has visited it after the death of both her longstanding tenants) wants to temporarily sub-let to a friend while he goes abroadparents. Celia eventually agrees Prompted by her mourning, her narrative voice is meditative and so in moves Hopedeeply self-aware, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a lady who has just left her husband book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for whom life is as complicated as she makes Celia'sits propulsion.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871188</amazonuk>1804271764
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donal RyanEowyn Ivey|title=The Thing About DecemberBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Johnsey Cunliffe was always ''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a nice boylife beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, but a little slow 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 one that the other kids picked Wolverine river and live on and it's much the same in adult North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple lifesurrounded by nature. If you were to ask Johnsey he'd say that When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he was has a gom. Even if you've never met the word before you know what it means. It wasn't too bad whilst Daddy was cabin over there , she feels called to go - he was a man and bring Emaleen with a certain presence and even when it was just Johnsey and his mother he had some support. But after her death Johnsey was dependant on small kindnesses from other people and at the mercy of those for whom he was an easy target. His life might have continued in Without realising it, this rather unsatisfactory way for some time but for the collision of two eventscalling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781620091</amazonuk>1472279042
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James McBrideSally Rooney|title=The Good Lord BirdIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him to correctgrandmaster at putting it into words. The reason Her dialogue is that gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the person under many relationships woven into this misapprehension story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with the emphasis on the 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounterolder brother Peter, he discovers that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so fara successful lawyer living in Dublin. Meanwhile itFollowing their father's that time of the 19th century when passing after a shadow spreads over Americalong battle with cancer, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious to this. He doesnthe brothers't; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revoltalready strained relationship faces new trials.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>0571365469
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ashley HayFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Railwayman's WifeWhite Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul, a close New South Wales coastal community, are parents to a lovely little girl and now, As always in 1948Dostoyevsky, Mac has come through the war years unscathed due to his job at home on the railwayscharacter work is sublime. However in One is never left wondering what a single moment all character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their luck changes innermost dispositions and Anikka becomes a widow, another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who can't write now he's home and the local GP who experienced hell while not being able to bring anyone back from its grasp) Anikka must learn the most difficult lesson: how to go on livingtemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743318014</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy TanJames Baldwin|title=The Joy Luck ClubGiovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The Joy Luck Club was Jing Mei''Giovanni's motherRoom''s idea. After arriving follows the narrator David, an American man living in the US from China Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in 1949 she invited three other Chinese immigrant ladies to joina gay bar. The four would meet While David is engaged to play Mah Jong and feast on morsels that none of them could really afford. Once played outHella, who is travelling in Spain, they shared stories of the land they'd left. The evenings evolve over time; real tension in the food becomes affordable, men join the discussions novel arises not from his infidelity but from the core remains the samedeeper conflict within himself. Four Chinese mothers living a new life while sharing moments enjoyed and regretted, discussing their children and parents It is David's crippling shame and telling stories denial of wisdom, happiness and, sometimes, intense painhis sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0031Y9DPU</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ByersAlba de Cespedes |title=IdiopathyForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Katherine no longer seeks or expects to be happy. She's stuck in a place This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and a job she hates and her relationship with Daniel broke up over a year ago. Since then she's had sexual encounters with a few men but tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her motivations have been confusing and disturbing - not least to Katherine. She has a vicious wit (actuallyforbidden notebook, calling it ''wit'' is perhaps stretching the point a little...) which repels the people she'd like to attract and attracts learns about herself in the people she'd prefer to repel. Daniel is with a new girlfriend (well, there was a ''slight'' overlap) but he's not certain that he loves Angelica. He's in a difficult situation: not telling her that he loves her becomes tantamount to telling her that he doesn't love her most intimate and as a result he has to tell her that he loves her just to keep on the levelrevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007412088</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sathnam SangheraOttessa Moshfegh|title=Marriage MaterialMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=On At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the morning after his father's funeral Arjan Banga was surprised to see his mother opening up fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the family shop. She was in her sixtiescynical, recovering from cancer predictable and besides, Bains Stores wasn't exactly thrivingslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. You could even be forgiven for wondering if it was ''open''This unlikely heroine, with the advert for a bar of chocolate discontinued in 1994 having pride of place slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the window and the security shutter stuck at a quarter open. Much as he might wish otherwise Arjan has no choice world, but resolves not to stay lose sleep over it: in Wolverhampton to help his mother, leaving his job as a graphic designer and his girlfriend, Freyafact, her solution lies in limbo. They were supposed to be getting married in December, but that looked increasingly unlikelyher hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021903</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Kerrigan in CopenhagenMatthew Tree|authortitle=Thomas E KennedyWe'll Never Know|rating=24.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Terrence Einhorn Kerrigan is an Irish-Danish American living in Copenhagen. He is 'Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a full-time writer drunk and translator', who 'thinks chronic underachiever whose dreams of himself as a failed poet, which is a less complicated concept than a failed human being'. His newest writing assignment, however, is to 'select a sampling exceptional at any of one hundred of the best, the most historic, the most congenial of Copenhagen's 1,525 serving houses his artistic passions all failed miserably and write them up for one of a one-hundred-volume travel guide: ''The Great Bars who had endless crises of the Western World'''self confidence. Kerrigan, though, 'does not wish the book So Tim applied himself to be written. He wants only to research it. Forever' - and preferably in the company of his green-eyed Associatestudies, Annelisecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841940</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois WaldenB0C47LV1PC|title=AfterworldFragility|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 Duvalier family owe their wealth to sugar cane although their gratitude catch is shown in varying degrees and various waysthat the answer for both could well be.... no. From the patriarch William (who never recovered from being hit by a manhole cover) through his wife and children, down to Theodore, ''Fragility'' is set as the lad who gained comfort (and a certain amount city of secrecy) from travel and on to their black servant Rheta BPortland, each has had a life. Each also has a story to tell and, whether alive or in AfterworldOregon, they're going cautiously begins to tell it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908129859</amazonuk>emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ClanchyMosby Woods|title=Meeting the EnglishA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Struan Robertson The West isn't the dominant force it once was just seventeen, but set . Nobody in the West is quite sure how to go to Aberdeen to study dentistrymend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, when his English teacher passed him a short advertisementpush for climate action there. A literary giant needed a carerfeeling that nobody is in actual charge. Why not take Imagine then, there was a gap year? Struan had never been to ‘’England’’ before and he would be living in Hampsteadman with precognition. On Imagine the plus side he’d been working strategic advantage in this asset; a care home to earn money and he could do the workman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Soon - almost too soon - Struan was the main carer for Phillip PrysThat man would be valuable, rendered dumb and paralysed by a massive stroke. His family couldn’t take care of him - right? Perhaps the young (very young) third wife was too busy with her paintingmost valuable asset in history. His sonImagine then, Jake, had other things - anything else - that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to do rather than be in his father’s presence. Juliet had never been her father’s favourite but she wasn’t ‘’exactly’’ stable when get it came to helping.back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535277</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele Forbes0571379559|title=Ghost MothThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinleythe story of four people. HeTess Hembry's bright fun and makes her feel more alive than dependableroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, boring George ever couldbuilt of broken bricks. The weight Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetimetime, storms and floods. We fast forward Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to Belfast 1969 complete the delivery rounds - and as the troubles to bring in Northern Ireland exacerbatesufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, as do the cracks in Katherinerainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's marriageJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. In fact 20 years People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and four children later, theythere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she've become chasmss his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870440</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=Alex KovacsKay Chronister|title=The Currency of PaperDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post- as the name might suggest - of aristocratic birthapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, but had broken off all contact with his family and in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in world devoid of water or a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea of planning out his entire life and nuclear holocaust, this he did in the course of genre is a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsburyway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. He would first become ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a counterfeiter new work of post- on a massive scale - and then a sculptor, filmmaker, collector apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of artefacts, sound artist and mysticthe fears that exist for humanity today. Circumstances would also turn him into It is a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat shocking novel that still manages to his initial surprise - later in his lifefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564788571</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Charlie HillEric LaRocca|title=BooksThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=4.5|genre=HumourHorror|summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses the sudden untimelydeath of two tourists in Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a bar while on holiday. Birmingham bookshop ownerRichard Anger happens way to be in the same bar so together reflect our single holidaymakers decide to team up darkest emotions and how we as an investigatory force to be reckoned withhumans react and process them.(WellMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', Lauren teams up for whether thatis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. RichardEric LaRocca's reasons are more physical thanintellectual to begin with''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that.) The murders seem to emanate from author GarySayles, It is a legend collection of short stories more interested in his own mind the horrors of illness, grief and, apparently, fatal to readhumiliation. Elsewherehippy exhibitionists (in an over-18 way) Zeke Horrors that linger and Pippa, are planning theart installation harder to end all art installations and, are determined to makeGary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or notdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, 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|titleauthor=The Year of Miracle and GriefJennifer Saint|authortitle=Leonid BorodinAtalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=From a space ''I was as worthy as any one of 25 years, our narrator looks back them. I would get on what happened when he was 12 years old. Twenty five years board that had to elapseship, because that was the promise that he madeI vowed. He is now happy, happy to have kept the secret as he promised Sarma he I wouldtake my place, and happier that he can now tell the story: he can tell us of everything that happened not just in his childhood that year on the shores name of the oldest lake in goddess. It was for the worldsake of my name, Lake Baikaltoo.Atalanta''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373246</amazonuk>}}Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela YoungAmanthi Harris|title=Speaking of LoveBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For some people it's impossible Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to tell another person that they love them and both are damagedthe Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. Iris could It is not tell her daughtera place she was born into, Viviebut the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, that she loved how it became her and Matthewhome, Vivie's childhood friend, neighbour and would-be lover could not tell her how he felt. For all three the result was years of separation with Vivie feeling machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she was fundamentally unloveable and first arrived there provide the whole situation was further complicated by Iris's mental disintegration 'score'' for this gentle and her treatment removing most of her memories of Vivieyet subtly violent novel. Padma's childhood. If that sounds depressing present fails to escape her past and soul-destroying then I am doing ''Speaking much like the musical score of Love'' an injustice because it's also a story of trustfilm, reconciliation and learning to speak about your feelingsthat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=Call of the UndertowSea Defences|author=Linda CracknellHilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you read When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a lot of bookstrainee vicar, then the fact of your life is that sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you are always part-way through at least one of them. You read all of need to pick the timechildren up. Over breakfastHer husband, in the bathChristopher, waiting for trainscollects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, on trainsJamie, between trainswhilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. You make a cup of tea Thelma's daughter-in order to have an excuse to sit-and-read for half an hourlaw won't let her see her grandson. But even soHolthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, most of your reading but Rachel is done in stolen moments – often in moments when struggling to develop a nagging voice from real bond with the gremlinparish -centre and she's in awe of your brain is reminding you that you ''should'the vicar, Gail, but then she' be s been doing something elsethe job for more than thirty years. Rachel and 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>1908754303</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=Crow BlueThe Boy and the Dog|author=Adriana LisboaSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Having lost her mother at First of all, it was the age of thirteenearthquake, Evangelina embarks on a quest to not only find her biological fatherdeep in the ocean floor, but to delve into which created the past tsunami and discover things about her mother she never knew. Set predominantly in North America and Brazil, this novel explores Vanja's journeys, both physical and emotional, as well as her relationships with key characters, in particularturn, that of her Mother's ex husband, Fernandocaused the nuclear meltdown. Uprooting herself when barely a teenager, Vanja leaves her home country of Brazil to live with Fernando in Colorado, the only connection she has at her disposal to enable her to trace her roots The result was complete and biological familyutter devastation. Narrated beautifully in the first person The deaths were uncountable, and the reader is propelled into loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the thoughts and feelings list of priorities but - six months after the young tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but courageous, determined the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and, at times, very wise, adolescent girlTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408838303</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0989715337|title=Close Your EyesPapa on the Moon|author=Ewan MorrisonMarco North|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1981: Emma remembers driving through a blizzard. That is, her mother was driving, she was just a child. She remembers her mother singing. Throughout everything, what she remembers, what everyone remembers, is how her mother sang. Actually, she remembers lots of other things about her mother. Snippets mostly. Then she remembers losing her… being dropped in London at her Dad's, who didn't really seem like Some frogs had gotten into the dad she remembered… then well.''the Social'' taking her away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565757</amazonuk>}}
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