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|author= Brit Bennett
|title= The Mothers
|rating=4.5
|genre= General Fiction
|summary= I love it when I get a book so very few have read yet, but it's hard to say what needs to be said, when you're not allowed to quote. ''All good secrets have a taste before you tell them…''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Graham Norton
|summary= Stop for a moment and look down at your belly, in the centre you should have something that looks a little bit like a button. It may be an innie, or an outie, but just consider it for a few moments. Do you feel better? Nope, you shouldn't do as all that navel-gazing does is make you over think things. However, without the concept a million romantic books would never be written as without the human compulsion to destroy things around them, how can any tension arise?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|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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