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Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
2016 · 320 pages · 3 reviews
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Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America. After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War.Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive.
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We Need to Do Something
Max Booth III
2020 · 168 pages · 2 reviews
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A family on the verge of self-destruction finds themselves isolated in their bathroom during a tornado warning.
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Man and Wife
Wilkie Collins
1870 · 466 pages · 1 review
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On a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay.
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
2019 · 396 pages · 7 reviews
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, 'What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?' -- all of the questions today's woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.
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Wives and daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
1866 · 624 pages · 12 reviews
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The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
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Small island
Andrea Levy
2004 · 448 pages · 2 reviews
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The story of Small Island revolves around four characters, Hortense, Gilbert, Queenie and Bernard. They are two couples, one white Queenie and Bernard and one Black, Hortense and Gilbert. The novel is narrated in the perspective of these four characters. Plot is set in England of 1948. Gilbert is a soldier in Royal force from Jamaica. He is living in a small room in the house owned by Queenie. The story starts with queenie, her perceptions and thoughts about her own life. Her husband is sent overseas during the war and hasn’t returned yet. Then the story shifts to Hortense , the lady always wanted to leave her ‘small island’ and reside in British isle as it was a ‘large’ one. She set out for England with plenty of expectations and wishes but is disappointed with her new groom and his state of living. Later the plot shifts from Gilbert to Bernard dealing with many issues of race and identity.
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