Clare Chambers The Editor’s Wife Arrow Books, Penguin Random House 2021. The Editor’s Wife is a complex novel, with some seemingly simple elements that add to the storyline so successfully that it is not until later that their wider impact becomes clear. Contrary to the title, which foreshadows one woman as the focal point, anotherContinue reading “Week beginning 23 February 2022”
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Week beginning 16 February 2022
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is the subject of one of the books, Take Up Space The Unprecedented AOC, I review this week. Nan Sloane’s historical account of women who are unknown or have been forgotten, Uncontrollable Women, seemed a good companion as so many more such women are given a voice – sometimes a loud one. NetGalleyContinue reading “Week beginning 16 February 2022”
Week beginning 9 February 2022
Reviews for Bright Young Things by Jane A. Adams and All the Lights Above Us seem to have been lingering on my NetGalley shelf, without being transposed to this blog. So here they are – two fiction books sent to me by NetGalley for honest reviews. Jane A. Adams Bright Young Things Severn House 2021.Continue reading “Week beginning 9 February 2022”
Week beginning 2 February 2022
Thank you NetGalley for the two fiction uncorrected proofs sent to me for in exchange for honest reviews. Each must be given a star rating for NetGalley and I gave The Final Case 5* and The Watcher Girl 3*. David Guterson The Final Case Alfred A Knopf 2022. How can my words, reviewing The FinalContinue reading “Week beginning 2 February 2022”
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