reviews

I found this book as an audio on my library list. I’d not heard of Haley Doyle but a lovely […]

It must be said, Lionel Shriver, in my estimate, is in a league of her own, and I’m working my

I came late to, Where the Crawdads Sing. I picked it up in the bookshop a few times, and had a look inside on amazon, but the beginning never grabbed me. In the end—knowing I needed to discover the big rave—I decided to try the audio version.

When nurse, Kay Wilkinson’s father, after a decade of dementia and need of high care, finally passes away, Kay’s husband Cyril, a GP, suggests maybe they should spare themselves the same fate.

This is the first novel that I’ve read of Ian McEwan but it won’t be my last. Mr McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of 17 books. He’s a clever, clever writer, a skilful crafts man of the written word. I’m in awe.

This book is part of my small, treasured collection of Kate Atkinson. I’ve been thinking about reading it again but when I found it as audio at our online library I decided to listen instead to Ursula’s attempts in getting her life right.