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Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout review – lockdown confessions
This follow-up to the Booker-shortlisted Oh William! is a wondrously living record of pandemic pressures and the power of the past
Alexandra Harris
29, Sep, 2022 @6:30 AM
A Hunger by Ross Raisin review – a superb portrait of care and sacrifice
The story of a chef whose controlling husband has early onset dementia explores the hardest ethical dilemmas about value, choice and freedom
Alexandra Harris
28, Jul, 2022 @6:30 AM
The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry review – Thomas Hardy in mourning
A remarkable portrait of the remorse that followed a difficult marriage, and gave birth to great poetry
Alexandra Harris
12, May, 2022 @6:30 AM
Matrix by Lauren Groff review – a brilliant nun’s tale
Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer … the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity
Alexandra Harris
10, Sep, 2021 @6:30 AM
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor review – beyond words
Disaster in the Antarctic necessitates heroism at home, in this beautifully restrained interrogation of language, care and loss
Alexandra Harris
13, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford review - both a requiem and a giving of new life
What if five children killed in the blitz had survived? With bold metaphysical engineering, the Golden Hill author conjures miraculous everyday existence
Alexandra Harris
22, Jan, 2021 @7:30 AM
The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams review – big ideas in a minor key
Further adventures in love and language from the author of Attrib., as two lexicographers a century apart juggle meaning and made-up words
Alexandra Harris
23, Jul, 2020 @8:00 AM
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel review – Cromwell’s end
The long-awaited final part of the Booker-winning trilogy is a masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches
Alexandra Harris
24, Feb, 2020 @12:00 AM
Actress by Anne Enright review – the spotlight of fame
The Booker winner’s seventh novel investigates a woman’s memories of her starry, damaged mother
Alexandra Harris
14, Feb, 2020 @7:30 AM
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver review – Youth: 1922-1968
Lucian Freud lived recklessly and selfishly – and made paintings unlike anything in the history of art
Alexandra Harris
04, Sep, 2019 @6:30 AM
The Lark Ascending by Richard King review – a ramble through British musical rituals
From fascist folk dancers to new age ravers – a heartfelt survey of the musical lives and ceremonies inspired by landscape
Alexandra Harris
05, Jul, 2019 @8:00 AM
Lanny by Max Porter review – a joyously stirred cauldron of words
In the follow-up to Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, myth and modern life combine in the poetic tale of an imaginative everychild
Alexandra Harris
08, Mar, 2019 @10:26 AM
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