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Quite a mixed bag of paperbacks to kickstart January, beginning with one I expect to see piled up on bookshop tables. Anne Tyler’s first novella Three Days in June follows Gail whose daughter is about to be married, starting with the wedding rehearsal day which has already started badly for Gail, summoned to her boss’s […]
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The premise of Elizabeth Harris’s How to Sleep at Night was catnip for me. Happily married and bringing up their daughter, Ethan and Gabe find themselves at opposite ends of the political spectrum. When Ethan announces he wants to run for Congress on a Republican ticket, he tells Gabe that he will only do it
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I’ve read just one from the second part of January’s preview but I’m kicking off with another I’m eagerly anticipating. You might think I’d had enough of American politics but it’s the political thread that attracts me to Elizabeth Harris’s How to Sleep at Night. Ethan and Gabe are happily raising their daughter together despite
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