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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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| | | | | If I were to rank the books I've read during the lifetime of this blog (and there are over 500 of them) in order of enjoyment, Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal(2008) would be right at the top of the list. I bought it on a whim, knowing nothing about it; I was nearly put off by... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Canongate; 320 pages; 2004. A couple of years ago I read MJ Hyland's Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Carry Me Down, which I greatly admired. Her ability to get inside the head of a disturbed 11-year-old boy was nothing short of extraordinary.Her debut novel, How the Light Gets In -- written two years... | |
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| | | I am on my second reading of Gerald Murnane's new book, A Million Windows - and I can't resist sharing this marvellous metaphor for poetry... Imagine, if you will, a 'house of fiction' harbouring many writers, who seem to have corralled themselves into different wings of the house. In one wing no one 'owns to'... | ||
