A House for Alice guest recs

A House for Alice guest recsAuthor: Diana Evans Publisher: Chatto & Windus Hardback Staff Pick! Cat says I read Ordinary People by Diana Evans when it came out in 2019 and it has been one of those books that has stayed with me, with its images coming into my head from time to time. With this in mind I knew I had to read A House for Alice, a loose sequel to Ordinary People. It has some of the same characters as OP, in particular Melissa and Michael, who are now divorced and in

Author: Shrubsole

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Tracking the mind's fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish

We visit the birthplace of humanity

emotion into small gestures and everyday conversations

In the book Lamya starts questioning these things around 14 and has a cool

the good intentions of holiday reading

juvenile violence

grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic

who she has incredible sex with but who has told her they can’t carry on sleeping together because it’s too intense

Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world

In 2004 feminist writer Susan Faludi set out to investigate someone she scarcely knew: her estranged father