Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Mirror, Shoulder, Signal is Dorthe Nors' fifth novel. Translated from the Danish, this story follows a forty year old woman attempting to take control of her life Nors' protagonist, Sonja, seems to be reevaluating her life following a break up. She wants so badly to pass her driving test … Continue reading Book Review: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
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Shortlisted for Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 The Power by Naomi Alderman is one of the most electrifying reads I have read in a long while. Couched as a history novel, this story takes you through an alternative world - where women have The Power a world where contemplate what a world run by men may … Continue reading Book Review: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction 2017 Longlist The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill is a different kind of love story. One full of passion, seduction, abuse, drugs, prostitution and...clowns. O'Neill's protagonists - Pierrot and Rose - were both born in miraculous circumstances with one abandoned in the snow and the other still-born. … Continue reading Book Review: The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction 2017 First Love by Gwendoline Riley is one difficult read. Not because it is a lengthy book or in fact because it is particularly complex but rather due to the subject matter the reader is plunged into. Don't let the title fool you - this is not a gushing … Continue reading Book Review: First Love by Gwendoline Riley
'This, like so many of Ryan Cusack's fuck-ups, begins with ecstasy' and boom we are back in Ireland with Lisa McInerney's most complex protagonist from her wonderfully absorbing first novel The Glorious Heresies - winner of last year's Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Blood Miracles takes the reader along a gripping tale of love, betrayal, dirty deals and survival. … Continue reading Book Review: The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
"Europe is moving, slowly, almost blindly, like a sleepwalker, towards catastrophe." Tremain narrates the feeling of Europe during 1937 - but does this not tug at you just a little? This book first caught my eye when I saw it shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2016. It is the first of Tremain's works I … Continue reading Book Review: The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
Ever since I finished this book I have been in a book hangover. Not one book has gripped me this week as much as this book did. I started this on a Wednesday and finished it on Saturday. This is the first Jodi Picoult novel I have ever read and I can safely say that … Continue reading Book Review: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
