Samanta Schweblin’s masterful Fever Dream was one of my favourite books in 2017 – a short, terrifying, and suspenseful tale set in bleak, rural Argentina featuring an unsettling, precocious child while exploring, among many things, the mother-child relationship and the concept of “the rescue distance.” It was brilliant, and since then, a couple of her…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
The facts of the case, though meticulously reconstructed, proved precisely nothing – except that the discovery made by two carters from Dizy made, frankly, no sense at all. It’s the 4th…| This Reading Life
Penguin Classics UK covers designed by Alceu Chiesorin Nunes I have been saving this post for closer to July and all things Paris, but I’ve come down with a nasty lurgy after my recent FNQ ho…| This Reading Life
About the Book: Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. In the idyllic Sussex countryside, her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch, a…| Theresa Smith Writes
