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I thoroughly enjoyed Charlotte Mendelson’s sharply funny novel, The Exhibitionist, so was delighted when Wife popped through my letterbox. Mendelson does a fine line in dysfunctional families turning her hand to the theme once again with Zoe and her wife Penny whose two daughters have a complicated set of co-parents, all intent on an equal […]
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August Thompson has chosen an unusual structure for his debut which is what made me want to read it. Anyone’s Ghost is a love story which hinges on three car crashes involving two men, boys at the beginning of the novel, the last of which is fatal for one of them. I wanted Jake as
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I loved Bryan Washington’s Lot and Memorial, both written with empathy and a wonderful fluency which made Family Meal a dead cert for me. While Lot was particularly striking in its evocation of Houston, Memorial’s loving descriptions of food and cooking stood out vividly. Unsurprisingly, there’s more of that in Family Meal which sees Cam
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