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Beneath the descriptions of what would seem the drab life of a drab woman in shabby postwar England, author Barbara Pym dings with just one or two carefully chosen words. She can say paragraphs with one adjective, or one person's hand reaching for a cup of tea. (Honestly, I think she's better at this subtle revelation than Jane Austen.)
I also was fascinated by the portrait of a time and place I really haven't reach much about. Finally, it was that gut-punch of an ending—Oh!!
Cover design by Orla Kiely Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, though, she often gets herself embroiled in other people's lives - and especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially when Mildred, teetering on the edge of spinsterhood,…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I was blown away by the complicated interweaving of times and story lines. The more I read, the more I had to rethink what I thought had happened earlier in the book (which might have actually happened later in the book's twisty, five-century timeline). Even the smallest details were carefully planted.
And it wasn't just the craft and plotting that were awesome: All of the individual stories were interesting in themselves. Underneath them all—whether in 1912 or 2401—these were people trying to find their place in the world.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads
“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times
The structure is very clever and highly entertaining to read. All the characters are equally well drawn so you care about all of their stories. The end is superb.
WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024 ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023
Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, City A.M.
The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More
by
Meredith Marple,
The coastal tourist town of Great Wharf, Maine, boasts a crime rate so low you might suspect someone’s lying.
Nevertheless, jobless empty nester Mallory Cooper has become increasingly reclusive and fearful. Careful to keep the red wine handy and loath to leave the house, Mallory misses her happier self—and so…
I loved the crisp, witty dialogue and laugh-at-loud moments. Espach elevates the “outsider at the wedding” set up and continues to surprise the reader as we get drawn deeper into these characters lives.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming…
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic
Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island
not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank,
Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the
Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they
are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty, isolation has
taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, eighteen and suffering his first
heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen,
has…
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Washington Post, People, Time
"A beautiful tale." -Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-four Seconds from Now
The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.
Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the guests get ready to leave, he hands her a love letter on a yellowing, crumbling piece of paper . . .
Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of…
