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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]
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|author=Ruth Ozeki
|title=A Tale for the Time Being
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Ruth finds a 'Hello Kitty' bag washed up on the shore of Whaletown, the small Canadian island that she and her husband Oliver call home. As Ruth opens it and begins reading the diary safely protected inside, she learns about Nao, a teenager in Japan. Through her writing Nao becomes real and the tales of her varied life, struggles at school and fascinating relatives compels Ruth to search for her, or at least to discover her fate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857867970</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sebastian Faulks
|summary=After Chloe Harding is forced to leave her East Coast college, for reasons she refuses to explain to her recently divorced parents or older brother Richard, her family's lives start to unravel. Will the rest of them ever find out what caused her fall from grace, and can they solve their own problems?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089838</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ivy Pochoda
|title=Visitation Street
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Red Hook, Brooklyn and it is blisteringly hot. Two fifteen year old girls decide the best and most exciting way to cool off is to take a small inflatable raft on to the river. The next morning one of the girls is found unconscious and washed ashore with no memory of what happened in the river and the other girl is nowhere to be found. This becomes a big local story and the survivor, saviour and community have to deal with the loss in their different ways.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778242</amazonuk>
}}

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