The Children Act
Publishers Weekly ★ 07/07/2014 The 1989 Children Act made a child’s welfare the top priority of English courts—easier said than done, given the complexities of modern life and the pervasiveness of human weakness, as Family Court Judge Fiona Maye discovers in McEwan’s 13th novel (after Sweet Tooth). Approaching 60, at the peak of her career, […]
Harvest
"Crace’s signature measured delivery and deliberate focus create unforgettably poetic passages that quiver with beauty. An electrifying return to form." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Sweet Tooth
The Observer: Sweet Tooth is playful…a great big beautiful Russian doll of a novel, and its construction—deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate—is a huge part of its pleasure. There are stories within stories, ideas within ideas, even images within images…Sweet Tooth is a comic novel and a novel of ideas, but, unlike so many of those, it […]
The Year of the Flood
The New York Times Book Review – Jeanette Winterson: Atwood is funny and clever, such a good writer and real thinker that there's hardly any point saying that not everything in the novel works. Why should it? A high level of creativity has to let in some chaos?The flaws in The Year of the Flood […]
South of Broad
The Washington Post – Chris Bohjalian: South of Broad is a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage?and, perhaps, vintage Pat Conroy?Conroy is an immensely gifted stylist, and there are passages in the novel that are lush and beautiful and precise. No one can describe a tide or a sunset with his lyricism and exactitude. […]
English Passengers
The Blind Assassin
The Commoner : a Novel
Library Journal Review Starred Review. Inspired by real stories of the Japanese imperial family, Schwartz's (Reservation Road; Bicycle Days) intimate and striking novel fictionalizes the life of Haruko, empress of Japan, who narrates a touching and complicated tale of breaking traditions and facing the reality of living as royalty. Raised in an upper-class family, Haruko […]
On Chesil Beach
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. It is 1962, and college graduates Florence and Edward, very much children of late 1950s London, are ready to launch themselves as a couple. Musical Florence is hoping for a concert career and looking forward to the wedding she believes will truly define her adulthood. Edward, a budding historian from […]