So life’s been slightly crazy and I may have been a little absent for the last month but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading so here’s another monthly round up.
Grown Ups (Audiobook)
- Author: Marian Keyes
- Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2020
- Summary: The Casey’s are a glamourous family that spend a lot of time together. And they’re a happy family…at least on the surface. But when Cara, Ed Casey’s wife, bumps her head and can’t keep her mouth shut, the many family secrets start to unravel.
- Rating: 3/5
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race (Audiobook)
- Author: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus, 2017
- Summary: Awar-winning jouranlist, Reni Eddo-Lodge, offers an illuminating and necessary exploration of what it is to be black in Britain today.
- Rating: 4/5
My Dark Vanessa
- Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2020
- Summary: In this original novel, a 15-year-old girl has what she understand as a loving, sexually awakening relationship with her teacher. However, years later, in a post-Me-too era, she is 32 and he has been accused of sexually abusing another former student, forcing Vanessa to confront it for what it was, and redefine what she thought was a great love story as abuse.
- Rating: 4/5
The Graduate
- Author: Charles Webb
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 1999
- Summary: The iconic novel of how college graduate, Benjamine Braddock, returns home feeling disillusioned with his future and starts an affair with his parents’ friend; Mrs Robinson.
- Rating: 3/5
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- Author: Maggie O’Farrell
- Publisher: Headline Review, 2013
- Summary: In the middle of tending to her vintage clothing shop and avoiding her married boyfriend, Iris Lockhart receives a phone call informing her that a great-aunt, Esme Lennox, whom she’s never heard of, is being released from Cauldstone Psychiatric Hospital, where she’s spent the last 60 years of her life.
- Rating: 5/5
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