Loved it.
Have a hanky ready though, if you’re prone to tears.
Author page: Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
Genre: Modern fiction
How to Build a Girl – Caitlin Moran
Scooby Dooby Dooooooooo!
Still makes me laugh out loud…..
Probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but I loved it. West Midlands bias acknowledged.
Publisher page: How to Build a Girl – Caitlin Moran
Normal People – Sally Rooney
Speedy read, following the chaotic relationship between Marianne and Connell, from school teens to twenty-somethings.
A novel that keeps you turning the pages late into the night.
Publisher page: Normal People – Sally Rooney
The Burgess Boys – Elizabeth Strout
This took make a while to get into, but I am glad I persevered to the pay offs in the final section.
The Burgess Boys is the tale of three siblings from a small town in Maine – eldest son Jim, the successful New York white collar crime lawyer with a rich WASP wife, Helen; and twins Susan and Bob. Susan, a single mum whose husband has left her and awkward teen son Zach, and small town Maine, to move back to ancestral Sweden; Bob a NY lawyer like his elder brother but working at the other end of the profession, in the legal aid sector, long divorced from college girlfriend and wife, Pam.
When Zach tosses a pig’s head into a local mosque he sets of a chain of events that changes everyone’s lives.
Author page: The Burgess Boys – Elizabeth Strout
Have The Men Had Enough? – Margaret Forster
We follow grandma’s slow slide into dementia from two different perspectives – daughter in law Jenny and granddaughter Hannah, with grandma’s daughter Bridget featuring strongly, as the family struggles to cope with the physical and emotional strains of balancing love, duty and life.
A hard series of events to watch unfolding, but it felt so, so authentic.
Publisher page: Have The Men Had Enough? – Margaret Forster