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| | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 240 pages; 2003. This is one of those rare books that is almost impossible to review without quoting the whole novel from cover to cover. Pretty much every clipped and stripped back sentence in Paula Fox'sThe Widow's Children resonates with meaning and provides startling insights into the ways in which family...
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| | A Year With William Trevor | #WilliamTrevor2023 Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 195 pages; 2014. The first Sunday of the month means it's time to review another William Trevor book as part of A Year With William Trevor, which I am co-hosting with Cathy from 746 Books. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked...
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| | Fiction - paperback; Faber &Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has becomeone of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I've only reviewed three of them - One by One in the Darkness(published in 1996), Molly Fox's Birthday(2008) and Time Present and Time Past(2013) - which means Ihave...
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| Novellas in November is a good time to tackle some of the backlog of Aussie titles from the 20th century. The late Helen Hodgman (1945-2022) was a Tasmanian author of six highly regarded novels.Jack and Jill (1978) was her second novel (after Blue Skies, 1976, see my review) and it won the Somerset Maugham Award....