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American Fantasy by Emma Straub: ‘Who’s ready for the best weekend of their lives?’  

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Emma Straub writes reliably enjoyable fiction, tending more towards the commercial than the literary. I’ve read most of her novels but was surprised to find I’d only reviewed The Vacationers back in the early days of the blog. American Fantasy has an unusual premise: a full-on nostalgia cruise for over two thousand mostly female fans […]

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The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green

The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green: ‘How does someone survive this?’  

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Lauren Aliza Green’s debut is one of those novels whose blurb seduced me with a list of comparisons with authors whose names tick my literary boxes. I ought to know better by now although in this case it paid off pretty well. The World After Alice sees the wedding of her best friend to her

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