Category: Novel
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Fresh Water for Flowers
This week we look at the novel Fresh Water for Flowers by author Valérie Perrin. Fresh Water for Flowers is described as Perrin’s English debut. I find this phrasing a bit misleading, as to me it implies that she wrote the book in English, but what they mean is that this is her first novel…
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Transcendent Kingdom
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but just have a look at the cover art of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi! Her debut Homegoing had an equally gorgeous cover and, more importantly, a story line that gripped my from page one. So when I heard Gyasi published a second book I…
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Unsettled Ground
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller has been such a wonderful book to read. Fuller excelled in creating a world I loved spending time in. I am not the only one who has enjoyed it as it was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize For Fiction 2021 and has recently won the Costa Novel Award 2021. Twins…
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Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is an acclaimed poet, activist and broadcaster born in the UK. Mrs Death Misses Death is her debut novel. She opens her book with a disclaimer for the reader, akin trigger warnings that precede many social media posts these days. This disclaimer is both thoughtful and ironic as the word death features twice…
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The Immortalists
Would knowing when you die change the way you live? Chloe Benjamin explores this theme in her book The Immortalists. The year is 1969. The place is New York. The Gold children have heard of a fortune teller who is able to predict when you are going to die. Trough the grapevine they find the…