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I’ve read all but one of the novels in the first part February’s paperback preview, not all of them typical of my usual taste in fiction but that’s not such a bad thing. I’m kicking off with one which should have been the perfect read for me but about which I had mixed feelings. I […]
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I’d not long read Dani Shapiro’s memoir of discovering that her beloved father was not her biological parent, when I spotted her new novel on NetGalley. Identity and family are the overriding themes running through Inheritance and the latter is to the fore in Signal Fires which follows the Shenkmans and the Wilfs who live
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I’ve read two from February’s first instalment of new fiction, both of which deal with families hit by tragedy in very different ways. Laurent Petitmangin’s What You Need from the Night sees an unnamed father, left to bring up his two sons alone after their mother’s death, finding a chasm opening between him and his
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