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Ia Pendilly lives in <!-- Houm -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273778.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273778/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Jane Ashland is dying. That's a caravan on the coast description of Cornwall a very early scene here – but also, of course, a woman as raw as the landscape platitude that surrounds hercan apply to all of us. Living with BranJane's life, if anything, her abusive cousin is going up and common law husbanddown in levels of pleasure, she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shoreenergy – sobriety – in these pages, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new we soon learn that it recently found strength to escape and to embark on a new journeyvery deeply dark down place. The journey takes Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her deep into days finding a troubled society and through Lincolnesque lover as a damagedstudent in New York, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Iaglimpses of therapy, remake a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and perhaps give her a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the elusive sense musk oxen, of freedom she's been seekingall things.And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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Isabel Sykes, 23, recounts the recent attempt she made to come to terms with the loss of her mother, the acclaimed but psychologically disturbed novelist Marianne Sykes. Marianne died in an unexplained house fire when Isabel was ten. Inspired by the appearance of Imogen Taylor, an enchanting young woman who wants to write a PhD on her mother's work, Isabel plunges into the depths of her past and an intense new friendship. After discovering that Imogen is not who she seems to be, Isabel must face the darkest moments from her childhood in order to protect her family from more tragedy. She receives unexpected help from beyond the grave: in the strange, glittering fragments of her mother's last, unfinished work, 'Midnightsong'. [[The Waking by Matthew Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Autumn by Ali Smith]]===
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The first part in Ali Smith's four part 'Seasonal' series, Autumn is the story of Daniel Gluck and Elisabeth Demand, unexpected friends who used to be neighbours when Elisabeth was a little girl. In a series of memories and dreams, we discover their friendship from Daniel babysitting Elisabeth through to her visits with him now that he is in a home and drawing towards the end of his extremely long and fascinating life. Along the way, we get a wonderfully written insight into time, memories, and the fleeting nature of life itself. [[Autumn by Ali Smith|Full Review]]
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