Book Review: Time Shelter
December 26, 2023
An inquisitive, captivating and confronting story about grasping onto the past without embracing the inevitable future.
An inquisitive, captivating and confronting story about grasping onto the past without embracing the inevitable future.
Gorgeous and brutal, deeply romantic and harrowing in the same breath, this book gripped me from the beginning
You could easily spend three lifetimes exploring the layers of meaning in Second Place, and to be honest, I’d quite like to!
You won’t regret reading the original Sally Rooney. A modern classic that’s still completely relevant!
The choice to use a magical and illusionary tale to represent the anguish of chronic pain and womanhood was absolutely genius…
You can’t help but cheer on the brilliant Elizabeth Zott with her logical and inquisitive scientific mind…
Every so often, I find novels that don’t demand reading. Instead, I can simply let the magic wash over me – this was one such novel.
A quick read though not lacking emotional depth, The Swimmers is abstract, hard-hitting and creatively depicts the realities of being human
By all means, this is not an easy read, but it is an important one. I won’t be forgetting this story anytime soon.
There’s courtroom drama, mystery, family saga and coming-of-age discoveries in these pages, woven together across timelines with skill…
So Late in the Day reads as reverential and unhurried, yet so much is packed into this economical prose…
If you’re in need of a light, fun read and enjoy a nice amount of plot with your romance then this is the one!
Intimate, devastating and clever yet not overly complicated, Homesick is a brilliant exploration of life, love and loss.
This is a beautiful and poetic little novella based on the author’s real-life experience in a psychiatric hospital.
Reflections on correction and humanity come together beautifully in this impressionist portrait of a novel!
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.
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