I’m not one for dark novels but after reading How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie my annual tally stands at two. Hardly remarkable if I’d read one hundred books but as it’s only my fifteenth this year, that’s more noteworthy. Are my tastes changing? Or is it a case of spacing them out […]
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngezi Adichie is a novel that weaves in multiple countries, characters and love stories. It starts when our protagonist Ifemelu heads to a Trenton braiding salon. After thirteen years (she tells the braider it’s fifteen) of building a successful slice of the American Dream, the pull of home is too strong. Ifemelu
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, thank you very much. She doesn’t like to deviate from routine and remains in the same company, doing the same finance job for eight years. Afterwards, she goes home and waits for the next working day. Every Wednesday evening is a fifteen-minute phone call from Mummy and at the weekend
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Alison is an ambitious barrister. She’s worked tirelessly and sacrificed plenty over the years. To attain her goal. It’s the one thing she’s been working towards her whole legal career – to defend a murder case. To represent Madeleine, a well-heeled, immaculately presented woman who freely admits to repeatedly stabbing her husband to death with
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is a thoroughly charming and incredibly touching novel. Ove has nothing to live for. The woman who filled his life with love and meaning is gone. “People said Ove saw the world in back and white. But she was colour. All the colour he had.” The result is
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