Decades after Sigurd walked out of her life, Livia picks up the phone and hears him asking if he can visit. That call...
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I don't normally read short stories. I don't want to invest in characters who are only going to be with me for a...
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Police corruption, rigged betting and a syndicate protecting its own means there's a lot going on in Hero, and DS Walker is the...
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By the end of a working day, Constable Hirsch is bloated on cups of tea he didn't want, because he knows he's the...
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One morning Teresa wakes up speaking with a French accent, and her son Paddy – a speech therapist – can't explain it any...
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Eddie disappears from Daphne's life when she's nine, and it takes forty years and a chance meeting in a museum for either of...
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Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say allows us to do something that remains so elusive in real life: to know what is...
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By the time I finished Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, I felt like I'd completed something big – not just...
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