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The Daffodil Days
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This is an extraordinary novel. Extraordinary in its form: the story runs backwards. Extraordinary in its content: a meticulously researched fictional biography covering ...Read Review
The Daffodil Days
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The Daffodil Days covers a period of 18 months during the lives of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Set mostly in Devon ...Read Review
The Infamous Gilberts
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There is a special delight in reading an author’s debut novel, but even more so when it delivers on its promise to ...Read Review
Nonesuch
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London, 1939. Iris Hawkins is a secretary for stockbrokers Cornellis & Blome, but she’s a would-be financier and the only person at the ...Read Review
A Far-flung Life
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In 1950s Western Australia, the MacBride family runs Meredith Downs, a vast sheep station. They are not just farmers, they’re pastoralists, committed ...Read Review
Seascraper
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Wood’s character-driven novel, set in 1960s northwest England, features 20-year-old Thomas Flett, living an isolated existence with his 36-year-old mother, whom he ...Read Review
In the Absence of Men
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In the summer of 1916, Europe is in the throes of war. As more men march out of Paris to face the Germans on ...Read Review
Dear Miss Lake (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
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It is July 1944, and the war in Europe is limping towards its inevitable conclusion. The London-based staff of the weekly magazine Woman’s ...Read Review
Shanghai
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In 1939, young, half-Jewish Daniel Lohr boards a Lloyds liner sailing for Shanghai. Following Kristallnacht, he flees Berlin to the only safe port that ...Read Review
Clear
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It is 1843, and John Ferguson, an impoverished minister of the newly established Free Church of Scotland, is forced to take any work he ...Read Review
