Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies (2011)

2020-05-21T16:09:38-04:00

It's 1952, in the hottest summer that Paris has had since before the war. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012 Beatrice writes to her brother, Marvin, saying "Paris was terrible", and she has little else to report. She has travelled there, at Marvin's request, to look for Marvin's

Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies (2011)2020-05-21T16:09:38-04:00

Thrilled by Rose Tremain

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Rose Tremain's Sacred Country (1992) London: Sceptre – Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. I was thrilled with this book. So thrilled that, although I had read almost half of it before I lost track of it in a chaotic part of the year, I re-read that half willingly on a second

Thrilled by Rose Tremain2014-03-15T18:07:36-04:00

Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley (2010)

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Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley Harper Collins, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Lyrics Alley is set in 1950s Sudan, a few years before it gains independence. It’s a time of intense upheaval politically, but the focus of Leila Aboulela's third novel is personal

Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley (2010)2021-11-18T11:29:19-05:00
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