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Davies details the sexual abuse he endured from his father, which began when he was around eight and continued until he was 13. Roy Davies would visit his son in his bedroom when his other two children were asleep, and ask him to take off his pyjamas. It was, says Davies, “a quiet, librarial molestation”. The first time it happened, his father issued a warning. “This is our special cuddle,” he said. “You must never tell anyone about this cuddle.” Hardly able to get herself out of bed, estranged from the world, recently separated from her last relationship, and immersed in the grief of the loss of her grandmother, Cassie is, in short, barely functioning. Into this emotional maelstrom comes a young man with a message. Cassie is the inheritor of a dead movie star's fortune. I write novels, and most of those novels have to do with secrets. My fifth book, FIERCE LITTLE THING, will be out from Flatiron Books on July 27, 2021. June Danvers, Grandmother- a private person, an artist growing up in the fifties, eighteen years old, and engaged to be married to Artie (Arthur). A conservative family. Her best friend, younger Lindie has a job working on the movie set. Lindie does not fit in with the others. She likes to sneak out with June in the evenings. Lindie wants to protect June.

June: A Novel: Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda: 9780553447705

Leave the World Behind is an extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory. It’s no surprise that Netflix is working on an adaptation starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts. When future generations (if that term doesn’t sound over-optimistic at the moment) want to know what it was like to live through the nightmare of 2020, this is the novel they’ll reach for. Breasts and Eggs is Kawakami’s first full-length novel to reach English-language readers. Section one is compact and ferocious. It moves in a tightening circle as Natsuko’s sister, Makiko, an ageing hostess, makes a visit to Tokyo: “I’ve been thinking about getting breast implants.” She arrives with Midoriko, her 12-year-old daughter, who refuses to speak. All three are alarmed by their lives and bodies. For Midoriko, hatred of her changing body threatens to become hatred of her mother, the source of her life and symbol of the intolerable condition of being female. Shankar remains one of the most famous and influential Indians of modern times, perhaps second only to Gandhi himself. Every passing twang or drone of a sitar still evokes his name. As the man who brought the sub-continent’s classical music to the world and as George Harrison’s personal guru, Shankar enjoyed an almost saintly aura in the west. At home, public opinion was more tempered. India Today greeted his 60th birthday with the headline “Part sadhu, part playboy”, a nod to a globe-hopping lifestyle and Shankar’s complex, promiscuous romantic life. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. This is an intelligent debut, deserving of its Booker shortlisting. Burnt Sugar is sorrowful, sceptical and electrifyingly truthful about mothers and daughters.Soon she begins having dreams of earlier days in this house. A house with a past. Did she really ever know June, her grandmother? Houses don’t always dream. In fact, most don’t. But once again, Two Oaks was dreaming of the girls—the one called June, who looked like a woman, and the one called Lindie, who looked like a boy. For more than 170 years, the Palm House has provided the ultimate spectacle at Kew, a “masterpiece of design” that forms the focal point of the gardens. This hot and humid space offers an experience that is memorable because it is so physical. It transports you instantly from west London to what Teltscher describes as “a tropical dreamscape, more vivid, more intense, more alive than the everyday world”. June” is written with a dual time line: the present and 1955. Eerily for me, the 1955 time line mirrored the exact dates I was reading the novel. I guess the calendar that year was the same as 2016. When it was Friday, June 3rd in 1955 I was reading it on Friday, June 3rd, 2016! Cool! Magnason’s moving and heartfelt paean to glaciers turns the science of the climate crisis into a story of personal loss. He draws on the experiences of his family and relatives, as well as Iceland’s rich cultural relationship to its wild and rugged landscape, to communicate the true scale of the catastrophe that is coming and its impact on lives and societies.

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I did have a few issues with this book. This story is filled with secrets but I wasn't surprised by any of them as they were revealed. If June had had an honest conversation with Cassie before her death, much of the story wouldn't have even needed to happen. I guess I kept waiting for that big moment or event to really blow me away in this book but I just didn't get it. I wanted an epic love story but this didn't feel like one to me. I really felt like the story dragged during much of the book and I had no trouble setting it aside. The last 20% or so was pretty exciting but I wish that there had been a little excitement sprinkled in other areas of the book. According to Teltscher, the Palm House is the finest surviving Victorian glass and iron building. Its design was largely due to the “irrepressible inventiveness” of the Dublin iron-founder, Richard Turner, though its “grand establishment architect”, Decimus Burton, received the credit. One of the earliest examples of prefabrication, the Palm House’s ironwork was forged in Dublin. It was completed in 1848, with some 16,000 panes of glass covering more than half an acre. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner rated it more highly than even Crystal Palace as “one of the boldest pieces of 19th century functionalism in existence”.This book, then, is both the story of a life derailed by abuse and a study into the ways abusers control their victims. It took Davies until he was 51 to go to the police which, he notes, made him “five years older than my dad had been the last time he molested me”. Davies says that the writing of Just Ignore Him wasn’t merely an exercise in healing. “Above all,” he writes, “I have set out to tell you the things you don’t know about me, in the hope that one day, perhaps, you will feel able to tell someone what they don’t know about you.” I received a complimentary copy of this book from Ballantine Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Hungry is a story about food, class and families and the distance travelled between a terraced house in Carlisle and multimillion-pound London restaurants that quake at your arrival. Above all, it’s a gorgeous, unsentimental tribute to the relationship between Dent and her father, George. It’s about the ways in which love is communicated in a working-class family that doesn’t do “touchy-feely” and what happens when a man who has never been one for intimate talk slowly slides out of reach into dementia. Novelist and politician Shintaro Ishihara described Breasts and Eggs as “unpleasant and intolerable”, which might be another way to say that it is not afraid of sperm, used menstrual pads, poverty and the working poor. Natsuko’s language, as translated by Bett and Boyd, is actually quite polite. I had the feeling of listening to someone speaking in the dark: casual intimacies interspersed with fanciful, terrifying and dreamlike interludes.

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Cassandra (Cassie) Danvers, Granddaughter-(now an orphan) a twenty-five-year old struggling artist and photographer, is going through a quarter-life crisis. Leaving New York, she has moved to an old family estate, she has inherited from her late grandmother, June. Also, I need to fill my book of the month Debut Darling and Genre badges. Malibu Rising is Historical Fiction. The 80s is Historical Fiction. That makes me Ancient History, lol. I am missing Mystery, Thriller & Romance.Oh, I hope you enjoy Malibu Rising. I really enjoyed the family dynamic between the sibings. I think I would have rated it 5 stars, but in the middle TJR follows too many tangents with side characters at the party, which definitely dragged the story down a bit. I received a complimentary copy of this book from Dutton Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. As for this one, the central storyline seems to revolve around a young girl currently living in a rundown mansion in a small town in Ohio, an inheritance from her grandmother (the June of the book's title), who took over raising Cassie when both of her parents were killed in a car crash. Everyone is hiding something and everyone is morally compromised, from the retired couple whose solicitude masks deep resentment on both sides to the child who torments a Glaswegian girl with a foreign-sounding name: “You’re supposed to have left, you know, people like you, did you not get the message?”

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