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Switzy by Emma Cline: A remarkable act of imagination and empathy (opens the original)
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In Ireland the Assisted Dying Bill 2024 proposed to legalise assisted suicide for individuals under specific circumstances. The Bill lapsed without legislation, but the subject remains one of the most complex ethical and legal debates of our time. In Switzy, bestselling US author Emma Cline allows the reader to consider the subject not as an abstract idea but through the lived reality of one man. David Hastings, an affluent 70-year-old with a dementia diagnosis, is on a final pilgrimage to an as
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason: A beguiling novel that is so much more than the sum of its parts (opens the original)
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Sophie, Standing there, the follow-up to Masonâs global bestseller, Sorrow and Bliss, is a tragicomic tour de force. The novel offers a defining portrait of loneliness, and its secret bedfellow â shame â in the digital age. The protagonist, Sophie, works as a sound technician for a literary festival, hidden in the wings, invisible to the famous authors that she tentatively mics up. Mason takes full advantage of the setting to enjoy some gentle skewering of her contemporaries with author na
Sky City by Jacqueline Crooks: The perfect second novel (opens the original)
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Jacqueline Crooks, the Womenâs Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush, is a singular voice in British contemporary literature. Inspired by Londonâs dub reggae culture of the 1970s, fusing Jamaican patois and English, for her debut Crooks fictionalised aspects of her own life while articulating the plight of some of the most vulnerable members of society. The powerful musicality of the prose elevated the work to a transcendent literary experience. Second time around, Crooks has drawn upon thes
Trouble Was by Charlotte Edwardes: Toughness of toxic families told with great tenderness (opens the original)
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The debut novel by award-winning British journalist Charlotte Edwardes is set during the oft-mythologised heatwave and drought of 1976. The extreme weather is the perfect intensifier for the pressure cooker that her child protagonist Frank Dart is living in. Nine-year-old Frank has moved to his Aunt Perryâs house in north Devon with his erratic mother and younger siblings, Odette and Patrick. Their father is âaway at seaâ; their aunt punitive and judgemental; their cousins malicious and ho
Queenie is Working On It: A confident comeback that delivers on the promise (opens the original)
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The long-awaited sequel to Queenie, the smash-hit debut novel from British novelist Candice Carty-Williams, has finally arrived. Marketed as the black Bridget Jones, Queenie was a publishing phenomenon that proved a novel centring a black womanâs experience could be a commercial success. The protagonist â a 20-something journalist in south London navigating relationships, financial precarity and the daily racism she experiences â was adopted as a literary heroine for our times. With half a
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