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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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| | | | | 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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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It's an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al - I've never read,... | |
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| | | It's two or three days since I finished reading Valley of Grace, and I'm still savouring the reading of it. It's always such a pleasure to read Marion Halligan's novels ... I save them up when a new one comes along and wait to read them in the same way that I save a box... | ||
