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The Divorce Papers – Susan Rieger – 8/10
“Divorcing clients harbour murderous thoughts, they just have better impulse control than your regular clients.” When Mia Mather Meiklejohn is served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at her...
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Can Anybody Help Me – Sinead Crowley – 7/10
“With consciousness came distress. Her eyes flickered open and met his. but her thirst was greater than her feat and she moved her hand feebly on the blanket, her fingers flickering in the direction of...
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How It All Began – Penelope Lively – 8/10
“But time does not end, and stories march in step with time. Equally, chaos theory does not assume an ending; the ripple effect goes on, and on. These stories do not end, but they spin away from one...
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My Salinger Year – Joanna Rakoff – 8/10
“Carolyn began talking about friends of hers named Joan and John, and their daughter, who had an odd name, an odd name that sounded oddly familiar to me. I’d heard her discuss Joan and John before, but...
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All That I Am – Anna Funder – 6/10
“Hans, who was shy speaking to the English, spoke of them as they fitted his preconceptions: a nation of shopkeepers, tea drinkers, lawn clippers. But I came to see them differently. What had seemed a...
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A Dangerous Fiction – Barbara Rogan – 7/10
“In the well-ordered world of fiction, murder and mayhem never arrive unheralded. For as long as men have told tales, disaster has been foreshadowed by omens and signs. But if there were portents the...
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Review copy amnesty
As I’ve mentioned a few times recently, some strange instinct is making me want to get rid of unread books. I’m going through my review shelves and casting a critical eye over the books that have sat...
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Lizzy and Jane – Katherine Reay – 6/10
“The cake and I faced each other – the last two elements of a discarded celebration. I covered it, shoved it into a corner, and started to wipe down the counters.” Elizabeth is making it in New York as...
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Old mini-reviews
Some of my reviews have been outstanding since 2012, to the point where I can’t remember very much about the books any more. So it’s time to jot down some thoughts and move on. Also – 3 of these were...
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Mini-reviews: Strings Attached and Bellman & Black
Strings Attached – Joanne Lipman & Melanie Kupchynsky – 6/10 “Mr K had achieved the impossible: he had made us better than we had any right to be.” A memoir after a fashion – Joanne and Melanie...
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