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Rohase Piercy
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Review: Skint Estate by Cash Carraway
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival by Cash CarrawayMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I'm not part of the intended readership for this raw and harrowing memoir - the privileged, comfortably-off majority against whom the author periodically rants - in fact, I was put in the way of reading it by my (now adult) daughter, who pointed out the similarities between Cash's story and our ow Read more of this blog post »
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"Started reading out of curiosity after I suspected it had been plagiarised in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things. While it has a certain charm, I got bored and found I was uninterested in the large cast of characters and couldn't be bothe"
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Sounds like strong stuff - a bit too strong for me, it the abuse is as graphic as you say - but it obviously tells it like it is!
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"She may be over 80, but Joyce Carol Oates has lost none of her ability to gut-punch the reader, with another visceral, brutal novel embedded in a stoutly moral tale. I haven’t read any of her books for a while, not since recommending The Female of th"
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Letters In Suitcases Abandoned — now available for pre‑order!
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Thanks so much Richard for letting me read this book in advance of publication - it's a brave and inspiring story!
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"My second novel, Letters In Suitcases Abandoned, has officially opened for pre‑orders— and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Anne, Chana and Lisa have lived in my mind for years: three women whose stories travel across continents, decades and the fragi..."
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| Such a beautiful and heart breaking read. The narrative style is is clean and straightforward, pared down to the essentials, but carrying an emotional punch that will ring true with anyone who is either getting older themselves and looking back, or w ...more | |
"‘Charming’ sounds like damning with faint praise, but that’s what I found in the simplicity of this novella, with its neat plot based on the arrival of John Ferguson, a Free Church convert, on a remote Scottish Island during the Clearances. Ferguson "
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| This is a beautifully written, haunting novella set in 1843 - the year of the Great Disruption in the Scottish Church, and one of the latter years of the Clearances, where whole communities of the rural poor were turned out of their homes and forcibl ...more | |
“Although we have shared lodgings for seven years, we are not--on intimate terms."
I spoke earnestly, for I certainly could not afford to have her misunderstand the situation. She regarded me seriously.
"You are very fond of him, however, and would wish things otherwise," she said.
I gripped the edge of my seat and did not reply. Turning to look at the street, I observed that we were just passing the door of the Cafe Royal and were approaching Regent Circus. I shifted my gaze abruptly to the swaying interior of the hansom. I felt Miss D'Arcy's eyes upon me.
"Is it so very obvious?" I said at last.”
― My Dearest Holmes
I spoke earnestly, for I certainly could not afford to have her misunderstand the situation. She regarded me seriously.
"You are very fond of him, however, and would wish things otherwise," she said.
I gripped the edge of my seat and did not reply. Turning to look at the street, I observed that we were just passing the door of the Cafe Royal and were approaching Regent Circus. I shifted my gaze abruptly to the swaying interior of the hansom. I felt Miss D'Arcy's eyes upon me.
"Is it so very obvious?" I said at last.”
― My Dearest Holmes
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