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The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

New York City, 2020. Darla Jacobson and her husband Theo Harper are about to leave their Brooklyn apartment building to spend the summer...

Mar 133 min read

Great Granny Webster is a great little novel by Caroline Blackwood. In 1977, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and legend has it...

Mar 112 min read

A young woman falls in love, marries, starts her career, becomes a mother, experiences the joys and challenges of parenthood with her...

Mar 42 min read

I loved The Bee Sting , which I read when it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023, and when my manager at the bookshop in Dublin...

Feb 263 min read