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|title=Brief Loves That Live Forever

|author=Andrei Makine

|rating=4.5

|genre=Short Stories

|summary=Our unnamed narrator is inspired to think back through his life on the girls and women he has been in love with, partly because of a time spent with an associate – a time marked by a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with a further woman – whom he deemed had never been loved. The associate, you see, had spent half his adult life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan in the 1960s' Soviet Union. This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>

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|author=Prajwal Parajuly

|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley. He's bright fun and makes her feel more alive than dependable, boring George ever could. The weight of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetime. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 and as the troubles in Northern Ireland exacerbate, as do the cracks in Katherine's marriage. In fact 20 years and four children later, they've become chasms.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Jennifer Johnston~~

~~|title=A Sixpenny Song~~

~~|rating=3~~

~~|genre=Literary Fiction~~

|summary=Annie's father is dead. She's not particularly upset as it's a decade or so since they've had any contact. Dada (he preferred to be called 'Father') had wanted her to go into the family business, to make money. She'd wanted to go to Trinity College in Dublin to read English Literature, but instead she'd packed a suitcase and left for London, where she still is - working in a bookshop. Her mother died when she was young - Dada had sent the child off to boarding school and did his best to ensure that her mother's name was never referred to again - and it wasn't too long before he remarried. His death brought Annie back to Ireland and she found that the money had been left to wife number two (as he was confident that she would know how to look after it) but the house now belonged to Annie.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472209222</amazonuk>~~

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