This has been the strangest month and I still haven’t managed to get myself organised to review and blog properly at all! Could I really still have a blogging hangover from all that work in March? I have been reading as much as ever, but my planning hasn’t been great and I have missed the…
Mary Lavin is probably one of the best short story writers you have never heard of. A former staffer at The New Yorker in its heyday, Joyce Carol Oates has called her one of the ‘finest short story writers of the twentieth century’. Her stories are, in the main, concerned with the domestic sphere and…
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Ante-Room (noun): A room before, or forming an entrance to, another A small room, especially a waiting room, that leads into a larger, more important room The Ante-Room, Kate O’Brien’s second novel, was published in 1934, but is set in 1880. A deeply moral work, it focuses on the lives of the prosperous Mulqueen family…
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