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|author= Elizabeth Hay

|title= His Whole Life

|rating= 5

|genre= Literary Fiction

|summary= If you think that ''un-put-down-able'' is the greatest accolade for a book, think again. ''Put-down-able'' can be stronger praise: ''His Whole Life'' is put-down-able. It encourages you to put it down, to wrap yourself in the slow-moving story, the exquisite writing, the subtleties of the characters, and just walk around for a while with them slowly sinking in; it encourages you to come back to it again and again; mostly it encourages you to put it down, to read it slowly, because you don't want it to end.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857055445</amazonuk>

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|author=Karen Mordechai

He never knows which.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump (translator)~~

~~|title= Ladivine~~

~~|rating= 5~~

~~|genre= General Fiction~~

|summary= Ladivine centres on the life of Clarisse, a woman tormented by guilt and shame over her abandonment of her mother, and Clarisse's daughter Ladivine, a woman haunted by her mother's choices. As tragedy unfolds the mysteries of Clarisse's life and her determination to escape a past she cannot reconcile with her ambition irreparably alter the lives of her daughter and husband. The sadness at the heart of this book is that Clarisse, driven by shame about her background chooses to create another life and identity and through this deception creates an insurmountable barrier between herself and the rest of the world. When given the opportunity to let down her defences and be honest about who she truly is, Clarisse falls prey to a violent, damaged man and finds herself drawn into an intoxicating web of violence, drunk on truth and freedom to exist without pretence.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848666047</amazonuk>~~

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