I pitched my reading of this just perfectly. Began it in the last days of our holiday, and just kept reading it until, this morning, the final day of our holidays, I got to the end. For me, this was a perfect blend of the lyrical landscape, generational Australian novels I used to love reading … Continue reading
Nearly ten years after everyone else did it, I have just finished Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin. I do think that this time lag meant that my reading experience missed some of the intensity it might otherwise have had. Debates about motherhood, styles of mothering, the existence or otherwise of the innate … Continue reading
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