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Malma Station by Alex Schulman (transl. Rachel Willson-Broyles) ‘You are never alone’

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The blurb for Alex Schulman’s Malma Station was so impenetrable I’d have passed it by had I not been so impressed by The Survivors back in 2021. Schulman’s new novel explores similar themes following three journeys to the eponymous station deep in the Swedish countryside, separated by several decades. Often, when her parents fought, she […]

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I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai: ‘The wheels of justice came off the wagon a long time ago’    

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I’ve yet to get around to reading Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, The Great Believers, but I enjoyed both The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House so put up my hand for a copy of her new novel. I Have Some Questions for You follows Bodie who never felt she fit in at Granby, the boarding school

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The Survivors by Alex Schulman (transl. Rachel Willson-Broyles): ‘Where are my brothers?’

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It was its Swedish setting that attracted me to Alex Schulman’s The Survivors which came my way at a time when I was remembering holidays past, including one taken on the Gothenburg archipelago many years ago. It’s about a family who holiday every year at the same isolated lakeside cottage until, one summer, a dramatic

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