Book Review: Woman, Eating
November 16, 2023
If you love the ‘Sad Literary Woman’ genre, this deeply character-driven novel will absorb you with its whimsical and lucid tone.
If you love the ‘Sad Literary Woman’ genre, this deeply character-driven novel will absorb you with its whimsical and lucid tone.
Happy may be beaten, drugged and beset by all manner of predatory scum but he still finds time to talk to his plants.
It was lyrical and beautiful, so sensitively written, and confronted necessary topics including the complications of grief and guilt…
This is historical fiction with a fresh, funny energy, brimming with ideas about class, race and gender that are made to feel up-to-date
It’s one girl’s journey to find her birth mother and the realisation that mothers – and family – can be found in the most unexpected places.
It’s an easy read but full of pathos and memorable moments. This is a book to be passed from woman to woman.
Richly detailed and action-packed, this novel feels both deeply personal and hugely expansive all at once.
Every page is laden with rich, sometimes grotesque, delicious language, but the story still barrels forward at pace…
Beautiful and hopeful and sad yet strangely comforting, ‘Cherry Beach’ is a quick but intense read about friendship, love, and death.
1984 follows Winston’s struggle against the oppressive regime of Ingsoc and the imposing figurehead of Big Brother
Read this delightful debut if you need a good chuckle! It’s a fast but deceptively clever, well-crafted read.
These charming, funny, sometimes unhinged characters are beautifully captured, and the heavy themes are present and fully explored…
Through understated prose and a deep care for her characters, Dinan explores the challenges and rewards of being vulnerable
A brilliant balance of the author’s signature philosophical musings as well as wonderful characters and storytelling.
I loved this clever, meandering, explorative and delightfully messy novel about academia, memory, and identity.
Mcphee-Browne trudges up an array of emotions without ever becoming pretentious, creating the most perceptive and vulnerable novel…
The characters are complex and relatable, and their struggles in this nightmarish world evoke deep empathy.
The prose is incredibly understated. It’s stripped back, slowed-down and focused on small moments surrounded by empty space.
A heartwarming yet realistic novel about devotion, war, and the lengths people go to for love. Based on a true story.
Hilarious, wise, sometimes surreal, deeply emotional, this is some of the best writing about loss I’ve ever read.