DanglingConversations
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Retired social worker. Studied philosophy ...Read More
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"Excellent plot and character development. Writing craft is utilitarian. The theme of the lost mother reminds me of Maeve Binchy's Glass Lake."
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a...
"I read this in one day. It was interesting to listen in on the thoughts of the woman teaching writing in Greece. It was like reading her diary. She did not appeal to me as a woman I would want as a friend but she is intelligent and self possessed ..."
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"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other...
