About the Book: It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting … Continue reading Book Review: Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, … Continue reading Book Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura| Theresa Smith Writes
The Long Prospect is Elizabeth Harrower’s second novel, published in 1958. It is set in a fictional town called Ballowra, which is loosely based on Newcastle. I didn’t get quite the sam…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe, this is a story about sibling relationships – what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever. Family is everything, even when it falls apart. There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the … Continue reading Book Review: The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce| Theresa Smith Writes
Down in the City is Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, published in 1957. It tells the story of Esther Prescott, a sheltered woman who has grown up wealthy and motherless, who marries a man after only knowing him for two weeks, thus leaving her Rose Bay family home to live in a flat in Kings Cross. … Continue reading Elizabeth Harrower: Down in the City| Theresa Smith Writes
