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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July…
Epilogue to ‘Through the Looking Glass’ – Lewis Carroll
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Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy
This story has a feeling of impending disaster as you turn every page. It is a thriller but maybe not what you might generally expect from that genre. The setting is an imaginary island called Shearwater, situated somewhere between Tasmania and Antarctica. It is based on the very real island of Macquarie which is a […]
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The Fell – Sarah Moss
This slim novel is a model of excellent, taut writing. It has the flavour, the stringency of a short story where words cannot be used lazily or with any extravagance. However, it is a novel, albeit a short one. 180 pages of intense thought; a tight story. A work of Covid times, focusing on what […]
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Summer Water – Sarah Moss
I enjoyed this novel but it did feel a tiny bit formulaic. We are in a mediocre Scottish cabin park in the holidays and it’s raining. Each cabin holds a different story because, well, everyone has their own back story don’t they? There is a retired couple who are having to re- align their relationship […]
I grew up in freezing cold Kent in the 1950s and early 60s. The airing cupboard was the one place to curl up comfortably and read. The cat sometimes chose to join me. He too knew where it was warm …
Susan Brice