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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Wonderful book and agree re the audio book.
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Of course, what girl didn’t long to be Jo March. Although I have now discovered I probably didn’t read the original version, so must hunt it out.
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
It reminds us how easy it could be for hard won gains to be upended by some orthodoxy or another. Also, gripping narrative.
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Yes, I wish I had written this one. Clever, engrossing, and with a twisty plot. The authorial perspective can lead you into some odd suppositions!
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
When I fist read this I was not ready to appreciate it, as I was not the first time I read Pride and Prejudice, which is a much more accessible Austen novel- it is one of those books that when you return to it sometime later you see its virtues (as well as those of Fanny Price), you admire the sly w...show more
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Of all Austen’s fabulous novels, this is the most captivating. It shows the virtues of restraint and the power of families and ‘the accepted thing’ to derail lives. The characters are acutely and wittily drawn, with flashes of acerbic pen, but even the silliest of characters are treated to the dig...show more
The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
I have seldom read a funnier, and more compelling account, of the power of books and good reading.