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The Power of Deya: A Review of A Woman Is No Man
The best novel I have read this year. Genre: Fiction / Drama Pages: 352 First published: 2019 Original language: English The plot: Three generations of Palestinian-American women in Brooklyn deal with expectations of family, generational change and the harsh realities of arranged marriage. The youngest, 18 year old Deya, is meeting with suitors, but doesn’t Continue reading
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The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Upper class partner swapping in wartime London. Genre: Family drama / Fiction Pages: 336 First published: 1984 Original language: English The plot: Mary Wesley’s landmark 1984 novel begins on the aforementioned Camomile Lawn, in the south of Cornwall, the summer before World War II breaks out. There, five cousins gather at their aunt’s house for Continue reading
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Small Island by Andrea Levy
The story of the Windrush Generation, against the backdrop of wartime London. Genre : Fiction / wartime drama Pages : 530 First published: 2004 Original language: English The plot: Centred around four characters (Londoners Queenie and her husband Bernard, and Jamaican immigrants Hortense and Gilbert), this is a far reaching story moving between pre-war London Continue reading
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