Rachel Donohue’s ambitious young journalist protagonist, driven by a hunger to get to the bottom of a 25-year-old mystery, observes from the sidelines of a meeting of editorial egos: “The stories we told were ancient. But we acted like they were new.”
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As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
Neil Curry fears that wit and breadth of imagination are becoming undervalued by contemporary poets
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
John Forth browses a surprisingly varied collection of essays by Andrew Sant
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, politics, psychology, society, writing, year 2020 • Tags: books, politics, psychology, society, Wendy French, writing • 0 Comments
Her Other Language: Wendy French gets to grips with a bold and frank anthology addressing domestic violence