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Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (2017)
My rating: 5/5 stars. Warning: this review contains spoilers. In this sensitive and heart-warming story, unique and quirky Eleanor lives by her own rules and logic. She is fixed in her patterns of behaviour and seems unlikely to grow out of these habits at the age of twenty-nine. The most immediately striking aspect of this… Read more
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Ali Smith, Spring (2019)
My rating: 5/5 stars. The year stretched like a child And rubbed its eyes on light. George Mackay Brown In the backdrop of the 24 hour news cycles and Brexit negotiations in 2018, Ali Smith’s imagination of Spring awakens: That time again, is it? (Shrugs.) P. 7. In the Spring instalment of the Seasonal Quartet,… Read more
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Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019)
My rating: 4/5 stars. Lefteri’s novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo offers great depth to the refugee story that is generally not achieved in the media. It is the story of how, although many rich and fulfilled lives are brought to an end by war, those physically surviving have the added struggle of finding a way… Read more
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