Walking Naked
By: Nina Bawden
3.87
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Laura is happily married, a mother, and a successful novelist. Although prey to night terrors, she …
Want to Read"I suppose I do complain sometimes. Who doesn't? We all know (or believe secretly) that when we were children we were happy and trusting and hopeful and good and that we would still be all these pleasant things if sometime, somewhere, somehow, we had not been betrayed."-Nina Bawden, Walking Naked
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1. Family Album
By: Penelope Lively
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
2. The Bachelors
By: Muriel Spark
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelor… read more
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- british literature
3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- british literature
4. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)
By: Donna Leon
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more
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5. The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more
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7. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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8. The Lacuna
By: Barbara Kingsolver
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… read more
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9. The English Air
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.12
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more
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- british literature
10. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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11. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
12. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
13. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- british literature
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
14. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
15. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
16. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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17. Spring Magic
By: D.E. Stevenson
4.13
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
Frances was free. She had enough money for her holiday, and when it was over she would find useful … read more
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- british literature
18. The Slowworm's Song
By: Andrew Miller
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An innocent-looking letter drops on to the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexplod… read more
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- british literature
19. Winter People
By: Gráinne Murphy
4.10
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Sis Cotter has lived her whole life in a small house by her beloved beach. Here, she grew up, reare… read more
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20. Extranjeros, bienvenidos
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Cuando Barbara Pym murió en 1980, dejó una cantidad considerable de material inédito. Entre éste, u… read more
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21. Walking Naked
By: Nina Bawden
3.87
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Laura is happily married, a mother, and a successful novelist. Although prey to night terrors, she … read more
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- british literature
"I suppose I do complain sometimes. Who doesn't? We all know (or believe secretly) that when we were children we were happy and trusting and hopeful and good and that we would still be all these pleas…"-Nina Bawden, Walking Naked
