What Doesn’t Kill Us is a beautifully written, gripping and immersive, and still very relevant historical novel about misogyny and activism.
Tag: literary fiction
The List of Suspicious Things
Yorkshire Ripper. The List of Suspicious Things is a multilayered narrative and a totally immersive snapshot of the place and time.
Tom Lake
Tom Lake is a nice book, very pleasant to read, not particularly challenging but beautifully written. Lockdown without the pandemic.
The Wren, The Wren
The Wren, The Wren is not a narrative of grand events but an exploration of the intricate threads that bind couples and families.
A Bird in Winter
A Bird in Winter is beautifully written, well paced, at times exciting, at times more reflective. Older, career women will appreciate it!
Black Thorn
A tense and claustrophobic mystery. An incisive look into family life and loyalties, ambition, criminal negligence, toxic greed and cover-up.
Lioness
Therese questions herself and her life, and feels the urge to break out, smash everything and live more authentically. Who doesn’t, right?
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
When the days are dull and lifeless, you need The Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies. Thrilling, moving, clever.
Cuckoo in the Nest
A quiet domestic drama set in 1970s Britain. Moving and well written. A wealth of domestic detail plunges the reader into the era.