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|author= Carol Shields
|title= The Republic of Love
|rating= 5
|genre= General Fiction
|summary= The Republic of Love is a mesh-like novel, peopled with a huge cast of characters interwoven in familial, friendly, neighbourly and romantic relationships. Winnipeg, the city in which virtually all the action in Shield's novel takes place, ties them together. The story follows two single, thirty-something characters, Fay and Tom, who live opposite each other and have a complicated array of mutual acquaintances but don't know each other. Shields alternates between their two points of view as they are slowly drawn together. This is a domestic novel in the best sense; there is a focus on the beauty and mundanity of ordinary people's unremarkable lives in an unexceptional city, from Fay's satisfaction in the pop sound and toasted crumb smell of her twin slice toaster, to Tom's ungainly Saturday morning jogs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>
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|author= Penny Parkes
|summary=Veronika Harper met Veronica Harper aged 8, form the start both deciding they'd stay firm friends. Nika and Roni did everything together including their beloved ballet… until something goes terribly wrong. This leads to a series of events that don't just tear their friendship but also the lives they would otherwise lead. They wish for invisibility and choose different ways to accomplish it for the sake of their survival; physical as well as emotional.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893361</amazonuk>
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