I didn’t have a chance to review any of the books I read in December because I was traveling, so I’m posting some mini-reviews of the more interesting books I read during my trip: Lethal White by Robert Galbraith: I will only say here that I was disappointed with this entry in the series, which…
I love Maggie O’Farrell, and I wanted to love this book. Ultimately, it didn’t move me as much as Instructions for a Heatwave or her other novels, even though critics might feel it’s a stronger book. This Must Be the Place tells the story of one complicated family over many years – one couple really,…
Maggie O’Farrell is one of my favorite writers, and this book may be one of her best. It’s about a very dysfunctional family suffering through a heatwave in 1976 London. Robert, the father, goes out one morning for a paper and doesn’t come back. He’s recently retired, and the police don’t suspect foul play. He’s…
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