The Word's Shortlist
Monday, 22 August 2016
The summer edit.....
The best books I've read and reviewed this summer. Pick up a copy now before the long bank holiday weekend!
1.
Heroes of the Frontier
by Dave Eggers
"She wanted to tell every mother, every father: There is meaning in motion"
2.
Hot Milk
by Deborah Levy
"Am I a rigorous cultural anthropologist, or am I in love?
"
3.
Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner
"
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself"
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