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Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy Book 15 of #20booksofsummer20

No 492 Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien #readingirelandmonth20

Reading Ireland Month: Week 1 round-up and giveaway! #readingirelandmonth20

No 494 All The Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell #readingirelandmonth20

Lucy Caldwell’s third novel All the Beggars Riding takes its title from the saying ‘if wishes were horses, beggars would ride’. Lara Moorhouse is almost forty and is struggling to come to terms with the break-up of her relationship and the recent death of her mother. Lara has spent her whole life wishing that…

No 507 Now You’re One Of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael Volek & Mitsuko Volek

The Shitos are a family of eight, spanning four generations and living under the one roof. When a young woman, Noriko, marries the Shito son Kazuhito, she is marrying more than just one man; she is marrying in to his family. Every family has its quirks, its particular way of doing things, but in…

No 519 The Awakening by Kate Chopin (book 9 of #20booksofsummer)

With its forthright exploration of female sexual desire, depression and female emancipation, The Awakening, first published in 1899, was such a shock to readers of the time that it was shunned and then forgotten for decades. This short, but penetrating novel was rediscovered in the 1960s, and is now thought of as a landmark of…