Lorna, Molly, Ruth. Three generations of Faraday women, whose lives span the 20th century and which stay connected, increasingly tenuously, to Matt Faraday’s prints of wood block engravings.
I shall read more Penelope Lively.
Publisher’s page: Consequences – Penelope Lively
Every nine years, atemporal twins Norah and Jonah lure an engifted to Slade House and consume their soul.
Each chapter comes with its own character – from musical mother and son Rita and Nathan Bishop to Dr Iris Marinus-Ferriby, via unreconstructed Detective Inspector Gordon Edmonds, shy student Sal Timms, and her sister Freya – and brings another encounter between the two sides of the Atemporal Schism, in the ongoing battle between the two David Mitchell introduced us to in The Bone Clocks.
Publisher’s page: Slade House – David Mitchell
More fab fiction from Patrick Gale.
Set largely in Penzance, Notes From An Exhibition tells us about the life of modern artist Rachel Kelly, and the impact bipolar disorder has on her life, her creativity and family.
Each chapter prefaced with an information card from a posthumous exhibition of her work and belongings, it’s a beautiful novel.
As an aside, this description (page 62) particularly resonated:
“Garfield’s feelings, by contrast, were a deep, forbidding pool, dark and unfathomable, stirred by sudden currents he could not control.”
Author’s page: Notes From An Exhibition – Patrick Gale
Oh, how I loved this novel.
An Australian (Tasmanian?)’s take on the Burma Railway and the brutal treatment of Australian PoWs in World War II.
But more than that: A love story; love stories.
Beautiful.
Author’s webpage: The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
Intertwined lives of Missouri twins Vi and Daisy/Kate – with an added twist of ESP.
Author’s webpage: Sisterland – Curtis Sittenfeld