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That lovely cover caught my eye on NetGalley before I realised that Patrick Charnley is the son of the much-missed Helen Dunmore, one of my favourite authors. This, My Second Life is Charnley’s debut which starts with a sobering author’s note telling his readers that while this is a novel, the narrator’s cardiac arrest and […]
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It’s over three years since I read C Pam Zhang’s acclaimed How Much of These Hills is Gold which saw two children bearing the bones of their father through the desert in a reimagined America. I was impressed enough to put up my hand for Land of Milk and Honey when it appeared on NetGalley.
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I loved Amor Towles Rules of Civility but, for some reason that I can’t now remember, could not get on with A Gentleman in Moscow at all. That didn’t stop me from putting my hand up for a proof of The Lincoln Highway whose stylish jacket seemed to offer the prospect of a road novel,
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