About the Book: The bestselling, Booker shortlisted novel by one of Britain’s greatest living novelists. Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families – the Belseys and the Kipps – and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching … Continue reading Book Review: On Beauty by Zadie Smith| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn’t she continue? Harrower gave evasive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her … Continue reading Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower by Susan Wyndham| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award–winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged…| 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
Vera and Thea are mother and daughter. Vera writes for the internet: she constructs identities and scenarios for brands to cater to the ideal consumer. Yet she also consumes the offerings of the on…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from cosmopolitan London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. B…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In the freezing January of 1989, mother-of-two Birdie Keller wakes to the news she’s been waiting seventeen years to hear: the man who destroyed her life has been freed from jail. B…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-stand…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2025 MUD LITERARY PRIZE Missing in every sense of the word, a man walks into the landscape and doesn’t stop. In all weather and across all kinds of terrain, Ingv…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s 1849 on the west coast of Ireland. Resilient Honora O’Donoghue is accustomed to fending for herself and to reading the language of the natural world. It was always said she’d b…| Theresa Smith Writes
