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| | | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | |
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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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| | | | El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott My rating: 4 of 5 stars When Harper Bishop hits rock bottom and moves in with her sister, she gets roped ... | |
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| | I didn't know when I stumbled on Ellie Curzon's The Ration Book Baby at the library, that it's the first in a series called A Village at War. The other titles churned out since 2021 are The Spitfire Girl (2023)*, The Wartime Vet (2024), Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls (2024), The Codebreaker Girls (2021)... |