Read with caution: Cleaning companies may never be the same again! I’ve come to Kate Atkinson late in her career: I can recall surprisingly vividly my mother’s water damaged, crinkly paper copy of Behind the Scenes at the Museum teetering on the side of the bath – an avocado kitsch bath – from my childhood…
Tag: Life After Life
30 Day Book Challenge: Day Two!
Today’s task: Favourite book by favourite author. Wait! What?! I have to pick one?! One?! Was this challenge not supposed to be fun? Okay. Let’s narrow down the favourite authors part. As with the previous day, let’s look at them by genre, too. I’m going to kick off with the obvious: Shakespeare. Not trying to…
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
Another detective fiction novel – and another still to review, albeit with a paranormal twist – and this shares many similarities with The Cuckoo’s Calling but is done so much better. Kate Atkinson – whose more explicitly literary offering of Life After Life was divine and possibly one of the best books I have ever read – is…
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North
“Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.” I was born in 1973 in a village in Kent. So far as I know, only once. I have to say, when I die, if I were to be reborn as myself in the same village in 1973 again, I’d be a tad surprised! I mean 1973….
