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om her upbringing in a strictly religious community ruled over by the odious will braun she has fought the people who wanted to take away her joy her independence and her spirit she has fought to protect her family and she has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her swiv s mother too is fighting on every front as grandma puts it internally externally fight night is a love letter to the mothers and grandmothers who have raised us and to all the women who know what it costs to live in this world but who are still finding a way painfully ferociously to live on their own terms the golden state by lydia kiesling young mother daphne flees her sedate life in san francisco for the high desert her toddler honey in tow her turkish husband has been unable to return to the united states a click of the mouse error and daphne is on the verge of a breakdown she hopes a stay in her family s unused mobile home will bring quiet and clarity but clarity proves elusive as daphne s dream of escape collides with the reality of a deeply divided world keenly observed bristling with humour the golden state is a gorgeous debut about class a fractured america and above all motherhood its voracious worry frequent tedium and enthralling wondrous love the whispers by ashley audrain a propulsive page turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses on harlow street the well to do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down drinks continue late into the night everything is fabulous until the picture perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack loud and clear before long that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night and then his mother can only sit by her son s hospital bed where she refuses to speak to anyone and his life hangs in the balance what happens next over the course of a tense three days as each of these women grapple with what led to that terrible night exploring envy women s friendships desire and the intuitions that we silence the whispers is a chilling novel that marks audrain as a major women s fiction talent step in the dark by ethel lina white on what trivialities the big things in life hang from the moment when dining alone in her brussels hotel georgia yeo celebrated writer of detective thrillers opens her cigarette case and the count comes into her life with the polite offer of a light she realises that here is fate in that moment too begins the strange and inimitable spell of georgia s story it is an enthralling story of a woman successful in her career yet timid and hesitant in making a decision which might have a far reaching effect on her private life it s truly a step in the dark the sleep watcher by rowan hisayo buchanan when she is sixteen kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home the streets of her run down seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers unseen and unheard she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore with this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything that summer my mind separated from my body as completely as an egg cracked from its shell the splitting began in those hazy days just after exams were done when everything should have been easy intimate tense and exquisitely observed the sleep watcher is a moving portrait of family danger and guilt captured through the strange summer heat of adolescence uncategorized 2026 ashley audrain ethel lina white kirsty lydia kiesling miriam toews novels recommendations rowan hisayo buchanan underrated 0 snapshots azerbaijan june 2026 july 6 2026 kirsty a wonderful week of adventure in azerbaijan spent hiking exploring and seeing the sights uncategorized 2026 azerbaijan kirsty snapshots travel 0 saturday song i have more than enough by searows july 4 2026 kirsty uncategorized kirsty saturday songs 5 the easternmost house a year of life on the edge of england by juliet blaxland july 1 2026 kirsty i hadn t heard of juliet blaxland s the easternmost house a year of life on the edge of england before coming across a copy in a relatively local branch of the oxfam bookshop its blurb quite captivated me so i ended up adding it to the sizeable stack of old paperbacks already in my arms the easternmost house was shortlisted for the wainwright book prize in 2019 its author who works variously as a cartoonist illustrator and architect lives with her husband in suffolk this book spans almost the final year she spent living at the most easterly edge of england in the hamlet of easton bavents before her cliffside house was demolished due to rapidly advancing coastal erosion each chapter covers a single month from january the beach and the cliff to december ring of bright water on opening the book blaxland tells us she lives in what used to be the easternmost parish of england the church fell into the sea in 1666 and this house itself called the easternmost house has probably only three summers left before it too is lost to coastal erosion the year of life which she writes here spans not twelve calendar months as is initially posited rather blaxland lets us know her narrative is in fact the distillation of several years of life there are stories and beginnings middles and ends but not necessarily in that order she writes that the easternmost house is a portrait of a place that soon will no longer exist it is a memorial to this house and the lost village it represents and to our ephemeral life here so that something of it will remain once it has all gone her own book mirrors a title she took as her point of inspiration the outermost house by henry boston which covers a year of his life in cape cod during the 1920s in her introduction blaxland describes her childhood in rural suffolk during the 1970s spent largely in isolation and punctuated by terms at boarding school i know in reality that for much of the time as a child i was either cold wet frightened or mildly unhappy yet the distilled memory is of one perpetual summer holiday magically set in the long hot summer of 1976 she then moves forward to her life as an army wife in her beloved house which is rented from the owners of a local farmstead located on the same estate in which she grew up the landscape is ever present and not always described with the reverence and love one might expect she is very aware of the danger which lies around her writing for instance this watery landscape looks pretty but it conceals many ways to cast tragedy over the unwary or the over confident on their summer holidays the photogenic harbour with its picture book boats hides its racing tides the sun blessed reedbeds hide their disorientating scale and dangerously invisible water filled dykes the clifftop path through casual drifts of wild flowers hides lethal cantilevered ledges of sand unsupported land hovering over thin air preparing imminently to crash onto the beach below blaxland herself is rather prickly and could easily be a little offensive to particular readers she is rather scathing about veganism and what it would do her agriculture heavy county if all of suffolk were suddenly to become vegan for example but i did find her intriguing i liked the way in which she captured the landscape and placed herself against us she is aware of how small and impermanent individuals are when compared to history and the milky way she is also admirably keen to imagine what the future will hold when the land she lives on no longer exists as land i really enjoyed the descriptive writing here but i was not as enamoured about the rather manic way the author switches between one topic and the next whilst a lot of what she writes about is of interest particularly with regard to the local landscape and customs the reading experience felt rather jarring due to the lack of flowing narrative structure the easternmost house was not as captivating as i had hoped but it does tell an interesting story about a building during a particular moment in time the end of its long life the addition of photographs illustrations and snippets of poems was a nice touch as were the lists of in season fruits vegetables and other notable harvests which blaxland included in each chapter in these sections she also marks the distance between the house and the sea and the shift from the previous month in january for example along with marmalade making season blaxland s home is 24 metres from the edge of the cliff in december this has been reduced to 19 i must say that the easternmost house is far less about the house than i expected whilst it seems like it will be the focus of the narrative from the outset it exists only as an afterthought in a lot of the chapters and is scarcely mentioned in others from her present day position whilst writing the book blaxland reflects there is much here that used to be and it seems sad and unromantic that the actual easternmost point in britain is now an uncelebrated spot in lowestoft whilst the easternmost house will not be added to my favourite memoir list it does provide a huge amount of food for thought about what will happen to the places we love as climate change and coastal change continue and how generations in the future may never know of their existence uncategorized kirsty memoir non fiction reviews suffolk the easternmost house 0 saturday song my little darling knows my nature by kyle morton june 27 2026 kirsty uncategorized 2026 saturday song 0 five novels to try june 24 2026 kirsty i sadly don t have much time nowadays to write up reviews so i feel it s quite easy for titles to make an impression on me and not feature even momentarily on the blog to counteract this a little i have put together a list of five novels which i have read so far in 2026 and haven t shouted about even though they all deserve it the usual desire to kill by camilla barnes an often hilarious surprisingly moving portrait of a long married couple seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter for fans of a man called ove and the royal tenenbaums miranda s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural france that they share with two llamas eight ducks five chickens two cats and a freezer full of food dating back to 1983 miranda s father is a retired professor of philosophy who never loses an argument miranda s mother likes to bring conversation back to the war although she was born after it ended married for fifty years they are uncommonly set in their ways miranda plays the role of translator when she visits communicating the desires or complaints of one parent to the other and then venting her frustration to her sister and her daughter at the end of a visit she reports the usual desire to kill this wry propulsive story about a singularly eccentric family and the sibling rivalry generational divides and long buried secrets that shape them is a glorious debut novel from a seasoned playwright with immense empathy and a flair for dialogue the god of the woods by liz moore when barbara van laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in august 1975 it triggers a panicked terrified search losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances but barbara isn t just any camper she s the daughter of the wealthy family that owns the camp as well as the opulent nearby estate and most of the land in sight and this isn t the first time a van laar child has disappeared in this region barbara s older brother also went missing fourteen years ago never to be found how could this have happened yet again out of this gripping beginning liz moore weaves a richly textured drama both emotionally nuanced and propelled by a double barreled mystery chasing down the layered secrets of the van laar family and the community working in its shadow moore s multi threaded drama brings readers into the hearts of characters whose lives are forever changed by this eventful summer liz moore s most ambitious and wide reaching novel yet the god of the woods is a story of love inheritance identity and second chances a thrillingly layered drama about the tensions between a family and a community and a history of secrets that will not let any of them go glyph by ali smith it all starts when petra and her little sister patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost is it imaginary is it real then it all starts again thirty years later when petra now estranged from patch finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom what to do she phones her sister in a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly bellicose era glyph asks if we re attending to the history that s made us and to the history we re making a funny warm and clear eyed take on where we are now it s about what are our imaginations are for and how in a broken brutal and divided time we rekindle care solidarity resistance and openness this anti war novel ali smith s most soulful playful and vital yet is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world odyssey by stephen fry troy has fallen and the victorious greeks head home setting sail hero odysseus dreams of lying in the arms of his beloved wife penelope and of teaching his son telemachus a warrior s ways however gods toy with the desires of little mortals angered by this upstart s presumption poseidon god of the ocean realms curses our hero to wander the seas for ten long years encountering one eyed giants six headed monsters terrible storms titanic whirlpools hypnotic sirens seductive witches and jealous goddesses odysseus is tempted and tormented beyond any man s endurance yet he is no mere mortal and the lure of his wife and son draws him step by step stroke by stroke ever closer to home and his destiny a tale of love and longing return and redemption home and hope stephen fry s odyssey sees the author and national treasure weave together the final fabulous threads of the tapestry begun in worldwide bestseller mythos it is a story for the ages and all ages girl dinner by olivie blake every member of the house the most exclusive sorority on campus and all its alumni are beautiful high achieving and universally respected after a freshman year she would rather forget sophomore nina kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into the house is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future once she s taken into their fold the house will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey meanwhile adjunct professor dr sloane hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support he...