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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]==Literary fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon RichEowyn Ivey|title=Elliot AllagashBlack Woods Blue Sky|rating=43.5
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|summary=Meet thirteen year-old Seymor Herson''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells the story of Birdie, he's one the young mother of toddler Emaleen, who longs for a lifebeyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a 's losers'wild card'', she feels stuck in her day-to-day life, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the least popular boy at Glendale North Fork to fulfil her desires of a second rate private school in New Yorksimple life surrounded by nature. He When she meets Arthur Nielson, a strange, taciturn and solitary man, who says he has made a virtue of mediocrity cabin over there, she feels called to go - and is happy to simply survive his time at Glendale rather than try bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and excel at anythingEmaleen's lives forever.|isbn=1472279042}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RobertsonFyodor Dostoyevsky|title=And The Land Lay StillWhite Nights|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=The novel starts ... at As always in Dostoyevsky, the end. We see the fictional character, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs which his late father took with his trusty camerawork is sublime. His father One is generally acknowledged as the better of the two at the craft; he simply had the knack. And never left wondering what his son a character is now in charge of are black thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and white photographs charting a social history at that time. And we all know that a picture is worth a thousand wordstemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Damon GalgutJames Baldwin|title=In a Strange Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='In A Strange 'Giovanni's Room'' follows the actions of one narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he travels across three different countries, navigates his torturous affair with three sets of companionsGiovanni, playing three separate rolesan Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. Never settled While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in one placeSpain, narrator Damon continually hops the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from one country to another collecting more stamps in the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his passport than he does friendsrelationship with Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873220</amazonuk>0141186356
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholson BakerAlba de Cespedes |title=The AnthologistForbidden Notebook
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|summary=Readers who know This Italian work of Nicholson Baker don't go to his work expecting convoluted plot, fast-paced action or non-stop drama. His novels at their best, dissect, in minute detail, the most intimate thoughts and daily doings, usually feminist fiction holds an air of a single character. They are revealing suspense and surprising, and revel in language itself, like poetry. In other ways they are unlike poetry, which deals in suggestion and compression. And Baker's novels generally deal in tension from the opposite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847397824</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A L Kennedy|title=What Becomes|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=You're three stories into this collection and two people have cut their hands open preparing food - a man with love drooping away from his marriagemoment our protagonist, making soupValeria Cossati, and anotherpurchases her forbidden notebook, a greengrocer, preparing stock and thinking learns about his own relationship. But there is no pattern to that. Four stories in and there have been two bursts of non-sequitur comedy. Why your fruit might be ruined by stray fingers, and the thoughts of a woman herself in a flotation tank, remembering Doctor Who, locked parental doors - and the urban myths of gerbils. But there's still no pattern - most intimate and that's the point of these combined stories. Life and all of its emotions does not live to rulerevealing ways.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009949406X</amazonuk>1782278222
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam ThirlwellOttessa Moshfegh|title=The EscapeMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43
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|summary=When we first meet seventy-eight year-old Raphael HaffnerAt best, he this novel is hiding in a spa hotel closet watching a twenty-something year-old yoga instructor (who knows he's there) having sex with her boyfriend (who doesn't). Haffner is a Britishscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, Jewish former banker who it is staying at the spa in Central Europe while on a mission to reclaim his dead wife's villa that was confiscated by the Nazis in the warcynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. Thirlwell's narratorThis unlikely heroine, some fifty years younger than Haffner (ie the age of the author)a slim, describes attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the aging libertine Haffner as ''lustfulworld, selfishbut resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, vain - an entirely commonplace man''. Charmingher solution lies in her hibernation.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099539837</amazonuk>1784707422
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DeanMatthew Tree|title=The Old RomanticWe'll Never Know
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|summary=Ken is nearly eighty and he's obsessed with his death and planning his own funeral. He's even helping out on a volunteer basis in the local undertaker's, but what he'd really like is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be back with different from his family. The trouble is that they've rather moved on. His sister – who seems to have been the perfect woman in his life – is dead. He father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his first wife are divorced artistic passions all failed miserably and he's contemplating the same end who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his second marriage. His elder son left home some twenty years ago as Gary and re-invented himself as Nick. At forty he's a solicitorstudies, living with cultivated his abilities rather than his girlfriend daydreams and her twelve-year old daughter and he's happy. He really doesn't want Ken to spoil things, set himself high but there are some things which you just cannot avoid. Ken is one of themachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905490194</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David SzalayB0C47LV1PC|title=The InnocentFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is a slim volume but the question should you make it ? Or is tensethe question if you did, taut and has bite. would it land? The story see-saws between catch is that the 1970s and the late 1940s where much political activity occurs, (there's an understatement) but especially in Russia as far as this novel is concernedanswer for both could well be... And as we dip into the even earlier period of the 1930s, we get a glimpse of the main character, Aleksandr, as a young man brimming over with political ideology. Along with his fellow students he fervently believed that 'The making of Communism was something sacred to usno.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515881</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Evie WyldMosby Woods|title=After the Fire, A Still Small VoiceWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=14
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|summary=Frank has moved to his grandparents’ shack by The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the sea after a tough end West is quite sure how to a difficult relationship, and mend this or even if mending it is trying to settle downthe best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, get a job, and get to know his new neighbourspush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. He seems to be doing well, until two girls disappearImagine then, there was a man with suspicion falling on himprecognition. Decades earlier, Leon is left to run his family’s cake shop as his father is sent to fight Imagine the strategic advantage in Koreathis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, before he in turn is conscripted to serve right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in Vietnamhistory. Things happen to himImagine then, although very few of them are of any interest whatsoeverthat this man loses this ability. Is there a connection between Frank and Leon? Will either or both of them manage What would governments do to find happiness? Can author Evie Wyld give us any reason to careget it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535831</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Barker0571379559|title=Burley Cross Postbox TheftThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When a bag ''The House of twenty seven undelivered letters was recovered from behind a hairdresserBroken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Skipton Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it fell to two local policemen to investigate what would become known as Burley Cross Post Box Theftmight look, for it was in 's stood the village passage of Burley Crosstime, just before Christmasstorms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, that to complete the Post Box was forced open delivery rounds - and the mail stolento bring in sufficient money. P C Roger ToppingThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, of the Ilkley force, took over the case from rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his old school friend Sargeant Laurence Everill without any great hope of successfather. People don't believe that they're related, but the village was in turmoil much less twins and something had to be donethere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007355009</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam HaslettKay Chronister|title=Union AtlanticDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Doug Fanning appears to be With a young man in a hurryworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. He feels he's done his bit for his country in seeing action in the Gulf War and Whether it's now 'Doug' time. Almost overnightis a robotic takeover, he's found his vocation and become a banker - world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a very successful banker. Everything he touches turns way for humans to goldcathartically experience their most existential fears. And now he wants to show everyone how well he's done in life and requests that a ''casino of a houseDesert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is built to his luxurious, overa new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the-top specifications. Nothing wrong with fears that you may say. The man's earned it, good and proper. Or has he? He's chosen to have his executive house built in an area of mature woodland and traditional homesexist for humanity today. It's bound to stand out like the proverbial sore thumb. The property market is also extremely buoyant and if Doug chooses a shocking novel that still manages to sell he'll make a packet. Win, win situation all roundfind hope. Or is it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874979</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Tove JanssonEric LaRocca|title=Travelling LightThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionHorror|summary=In her home country of Finland – and no doubt throughout much of the rest of Europe which Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is not quite so sniffy about foreign literature used as Britain tends a way to be – Jansson reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is generally recognised as an author of talenta home invader, skilla monster or a ghost, verve it usually something tangible and wit that extended far beyond , by the end of the Moomin Troll stories for which she is best known in this countrystory, beatable. Those childrenEric LaRocca's books were first published ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in England sixty years ago the horrors of illness, grief and have remained in print ever since (as well as being adapted for just about every other medium going), humiliation. Horrors that linger and a joy they are too, but it is only recently that we have been granted the pleasures of reading her fiction for adultsharder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095489958X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter MatthiessenMadelaine Lucas|title=Shadow CountryThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a big book by anyone's standards. Think of your average blockbuster in terms of pages - then double it. Due 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to its sheer breadth of narrative I think it best if I break it down into manageable book-sized chunks (the novel itself is sub-divided into be a trilogy generally known as The Watson Trilogy). First offlight and weightless feeling, therebut I had always longed for gravity's an explanatory author's note at the beginning to ease the reader in gently, perhaps. I took a deep breath and dived in ...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705015X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen GibbonMichael Grothaus|title=ThiefBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It’s summer, ''But fearing something and school teacher Suzanne is renting a cabin by a lake. Spending her days reading and swimming, she also finds time having it come to engage in some old fashioned letter writing with a stranger who responded to a personal ad she placedpass are two different things. He’s currently an inmate at the state penitentiary, but Suzanne’s not one And I'm willing to judgebet most of what we fear will never happen, and agrees or we can take steps to give their correspondence a shot. Then she finds out what he’s in for – and it’s not pretty. Breville is a convicted thief and rapist, and Suzanne herself was raped as a teenager, by a friend’s brother. That should be the end of change it: any sensible person would cut off all communication and turn their back on the situation. But Suzanne is different and though she’s acknowledges that it might not be the healthiest of relationships, she maintains the back and forth with Breville.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848871821</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irene NemirovskyJennifer Saint|title=JezebelAtalanta|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Gladys Eysenach stands in the dock accused ''I was as worthy as any one of murdering her young loverthem. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. She apparently took a gun from her handbag and shot him I would take my place, not just in the early hours name of Christmas Day in her own homethe goddess. What happened is clear – Gladys makes no attempt to deny it – but why it happened is less obvious, and Gladys doesn't seem inclined to offer much in It was for the way sake of explanation. But gradually, oh so teasinglymy name, we find out what really happened and whytoo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520389</amazonuk>}}Atalanta''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria EdgeworthAmanthi Harris|title=HelenBeautiful Place|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sweet-tempered Helen Stanley Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has been left penniless and homeless after returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her uncle's deathhome country. Soon This is a place she spent her best friend Cecilia writes formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to encourage Helen to come be at the Villa, how it became her home, and live with the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and her new husband, General Clarendon at Clarendon Parkyet subtly violent novel. Helen soon finds herself settled in Padma's present fails to Clarendon Park escape her past and reacquaints herself with Cecilia and more importantly with Cecilia's mother, Lady Davenant, who considers Helen much like the musical score of a daughterfilm, and even prefers her to Ceciliathat strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villa.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956003893</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zachary Mason178563335X|title=The Lost Books of the Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Zachary Mason suggests that Homer's ''Odyssey'' was merely one particular ordering of the events of Odysseus' return to Ithaca after the Trojan War. 'Echoes of other Odysseys', he suggests exist, including a forty four-episode variation in a 'pre-Ptolomeic papyrus excavated from the desiccated rubbish mounds of Oxyrhnchus' and this is what is 'translated' here. So we are presented with these forty four often very short stories that reconstruct elements of the Odyssey in a kind of alternate reality, asking 'what if it were slightly different', and what emerges is a non-linear, mosaic of stories. If Homer had decided to present his book in DVD format, these would be in the 'extras' of alternative 'takes' on things. The result is like a jazz riff on the original stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090224</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSea Defences|author=Joseph Smith|title=TaurusHilary Taylor
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As the bull goes from paddock When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to stall in pick the searing heat of the farmchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, he feels strangely disembodied collects six- year-old Hannah and yet all he feels is his body: his huge bulk; the angles at which he must hold up his heavy head to her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see what he needs to see; the strange latency that fills himher grandson. He watches Holthorpe, on the skittish grey horseNorfolk coast, transfixed and yet repulsed by its grace and fluidity. He observes his captorsis a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the girl parish - and boy siblings and their fathershe's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and he allows their goadings to gradually wake him from stuporous apathyChristopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089978</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juan Gabriel Vasquez1398515388|title=The Secret History of CostaguanaBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In 1904 Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad wrote his novel about a self-publicising Italian expatriate by First of all, it was the name of ''Nostromo''earthquake, set deep in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana. Columbian writerocean floor, Juan Gabriel Vásquez imagines that which created the fictitious José Altamirano has assisted Conrad tsunami and this, in his research by telling him his own storyturn, only to find that caused the British novelist has subsequently inexcusably omitted him from his booknuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Now The deaths were uncountable, he is seeking to set and the record straight by telling loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the reader, who he imagines in list of priorities but - six months after the role of tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a jury, as well as someone named Eloísa (who we later find out about) dog person but the same story convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to pass judgement on if this was fairopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800187</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenzaburo Oe0989715337|title=The ChangelingPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel starts at ''Some frogs had gotten into the endwell. Therefore we know that one of '' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the two principal charactersfragrant water, namely Goronaked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, appears to have committed suicidesticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. The question is why. And Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the whole novel is an attempt to provide that elusive answer. Goro was an extremely successful film director strange noise of international reputethe buckets as he filled them. He was based in his native Japan but travelled extensively with his work. And you have to ask yourself why would a man such as this decide to end his life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843547341</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian MackenzieDaisy Hildyard|title=City of StrangersEmergency
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As soon as Georgia Myers turns eighteen, she is going to find her biological parents. And she has lots The summary of questions for them too; like where else might she have lived if she had not been given up and does she have any brothers and sisters? Mostly, however, Georgia just wants this book doesn't come close to ask ''why?''explaining what is done with the premise. Why was she given up for adoption? Why her?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849014124</amazonuk>1913097811}}
{{newreviewFrontpage |author=Joseph OSally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne'Connors memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }} {{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=Ghost LightThis World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=An unknown voice introduces the reader to actress MollyEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. She doesn't know it but she I will be dead fairly soon. It's almost as if she's talking to herself throughout agree with the introduction pages. The language first – tremendous is Irish vernacular so thereno understatement – but 's lots of good old Irish put-downs, classic descriptions and call-a-spade-a-shovel language. This richness and unmistakable lilt gives the reader a sense of place. Albeit, old Molly is almost living by her wits (which are varied and considerable) in the poorer areas of London. Her conversations with the local people, whether itdelight's the inn-keeper or the local bobby on the beat are absolutely wonderful. She is one fine actress. I could not keep perhaps using the smile from my face when reading these conversational gems. For example, Molly is trying to have expression in a polite conversation with the inn-keeper Mr Ballantine when they are rudely interrupted way I'Men barrel in and out m not familiar with their swearing and gruffness ... Why can they never sit easy, must they always emit noises, and must the noises be deafening vowels?' Brilliant. The sheer beauty in all of this is that Molly, in her own private thoughts, in her own head, is giving off the most foul language I have to confess my ignorance of the lot of them. These conversations are also bitterSpanish-sweetlanguage literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. O'Connor's descriptions - especially of people are superlative. He doesn't try too hard From the little I have read (which is a gift in itself) but gets his message over to the reader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0436205718</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Bowles|title=Two Serious Ladies|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=First published in 1943translation, this is the story of Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield who are two strained and constrained women who want to break free, although it is not entirely clear what it is they want to break free from. Society? The conventions of heterosexuality? The boredom of their female lives? Anyway, Christina is a wealthy spinster who takes a companion, Miss Gamelon, into her home where they settle into a routine of being catty to each other. Soon ChristinaI don's male friend, Arnold, moves in with them too, and later when they all move t read Spanish) there does seem to be a falling-down house on an island they are joined there by Arnold's father who has walked out on his wife. Christina leaves tendency towards the house, trying to improve herself in some manner perhaps, but becoming a sort of prostitute, falling into relationships as a 'kept woman'. Mrs Copperfield, meanwhile, takes a trip to Panama with her husband. The couple drift apart as Frieda finds herself attracted to fantastical – the seedy underworld of prostitution, drinking in bars and brothels, falling for a prostitute named Pacifica and leaving her husband to move in with hermystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956003850</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna KavennaJennifer Saint|title=The Birth of LoveElektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Birth 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of Love has four interwoven storylines about characters three women who live in different timesthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, pastClytemnestra, present and futureElektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. The common theme is birthYet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057124517X</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tishani Doshi8409290103|title=The Pleasure SeekersIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Essentially this is Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a love story correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two people - Babo from Madras and Sian from small-town Walesalthough we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. You could argue It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that two more disparate cultures would he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be hard a danger to imaginehis wife and other children. Factor in that the novel opens in the heady, free love days of The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the 1960s and a very entertaining story starts to unfoldyoung man on his way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590923</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yasmina KhadraB098FFFBH9|title=What the Day Owes the NightSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Nine Fourteen-year -old Algerian Muslim Younes Rachel is devastated when his fatherher school's farm is destroyed animal rights project leader and she and his family have to move her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the slum of Jenane Jatoanimal world. However, while the rest She gets a great deal of his support from her family struggle: father Pip Harrison, this turns out to be something of a blessing in disguise for Youneslecturer at Imperial College,who is rescued by his wealthy uncleLondon, a pharmacist. Renamed Jonas, he moves to live with his uncle mother Kate and aunt in the vibrant European district of Rio Salado. There, he meets new friends Jean-Christophe, Simonher twin, and FabriceNick. But what seems to be an unbreakable friendship is tested to its limits by Kate runs the return to the area of the beautiful Emiliefamily business, and the boys' problems increase as Algeria fights for its independence from France. The book is narrated by Jonas at a much older agetoy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, lookingback at his life, although the epilogue brings us to the present day as he visits a gravewhich is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019933</amazonuk>
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