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… Continue Reading “This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell”
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. … Continue Reading “Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell”
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