This is a remarkable book. It starts out in a ‘Cube’ which is a solitary confinement prison cell. The woman is rude to...
DebraNovember 21, 2022
I first met Elizabeth Strout’s writing through the voice of Olive Kitteridge, and loved the acerbic, achingly honest tone of this character. Lucy...
DebraOctober 23, 2022
Julia Glass is one of my go-to writers. So, fresh from reading The Widower’s Tale, I was delighted to see that she has...
DebraOctober 23, 2022
The central character in this novel is Percy Darling, a sprightly 70-year-old man, who has mostly kept to himself since his wife died...
DebraOctober 23, 2022
I love the set up of Eddy, Eddy … a young guy living with his uncle Brian in Christchurch, embarrassed by him but...
DebraOctober 23, 2022
This novel begins with a bright, breezy tone – a district attorney at a loose end on a Sunday turns up uninvited at...
DebraJune 26, 2022
I liked this book from the first sentence. Groundskeeping is an authentic and smart novel in the voice of a man in his...
DebraJune 26, 2022
I circled around this book for several months – checking it out in the bookshop, but not buying it – at 800 pages,...
DebraApril 28, 2022
The characters who travel the Lincoln Highway in this novel spring off the page. The first ones we meet have arrived from a...
DebraApril 3, 2022
Bourne could be any town in the world where an industrial activity discharged dodgy effluent to a river, with the people responsible departing...
DebraFebruary 9, 2022
