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My last book of July is Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. A wintry fairytale which was perfect for cooling down during the heatwave! I recently shared on Instagram that I’m relatively new convert to fantasy fiction. I’d always believed that the sci-fi and fantasy section of the bookshop was just not for me. Having found [...]
I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth." And so my obsession with modern retellings of classics continues. [...]
Love Story or American Injustice? We would tell people how no black man is really safe in America So now we come to the novel which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019. I have to admit that prior to the announcement I hadn’t thought of reading An American Marriage (despite the glowing praise from [...]
Raw, real musical love story And he spent one long song in an agony of uncertainty called Ordinary People, where his love was undeniable but constantly running into hardship and there were arguments every day and no one knew which way to go. And here I am with another blog from Women’s Prize for Fiction [...]
Unique narrator, troubles and mistrust So it was, while standing in our kitchen digesting this bit of consequence, that I came to understand how much I'd been closed down, how much I'd been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man. And the community, by the very mental atmosphere, that minutiae of invasion. So [...]
Female focused retelling man’s story Silence becomes a woman. The second of my blogs from the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, staying with the theme of retellings of ancient stories with The Silence of the Girls. Again the tale of one lone women usually sidelines in the tales about Achilles, Odysseus and their band of [...]
Love, longing, myth, magic and power It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment’s carelessness. If I had ever believed it I no longer did. My first few blogs will all be from the woman’s prize for fiction 2019. I cannot even begin [...]
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