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I remember Clare Sestanovich’s short story collection, Objects of Desire, being much praised when it was published which is what made me want to read her first novel, Ask Me Again. It begins with sixteen-year-old Eva meeting James in a Brooklyn hospital waiting room where her parents are anxiously sitting at her comatose grandmother’s bedside, […]
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This week’s all about the new publishing year which kicks off with lots of potential treats for those of us in need of diversion from the winter gloom, beginning with two I’ve already read. The blurb for Catherine Airey’s Confessions promised an involving tale of two Irish sisters, one of whom emigrates to New York
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Just one post for July’s paperbacks and a thin one at that. I blame summer reading which tends not to appeal to me. The good news is that four out of the six titles are tried and tested beginning with Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway, a 1950s American odyssey. Released early from Salina, the youth
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