The Rainmaker - John Grisham

73%
06.08.19

Who knew insurance law could be so fascinating? I loved this. At least, I loved the first 95% of it. Let's not talk about the ending.

Hot Milk - Deborah Levy

45%
17.12.18

The cover says beautiful, clever, powerful, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. I say badly written, incoherent, pretentious and full of wooden characters it's impossible to care about. But each to their own. I have a couple of other Levy novels I've not yet read, but I don't think I'll bother now.

Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon

53%
22.02.17

A quick, easy, predictable read that doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you think about it too carefully.

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - Rachel Joyce

61%
21.01.16

This 'companion novel' to 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' is really more a back story for the goal of that pilgrimage. Beautifully written and tragic, as you'd expect from Joyce, but Queenie is not the most compelling character and ultimately it all seems rather unnecessary.

The Memory Book - Rowan Coleman

65%
14.10.14

I had a very soggy tissue by the end of this one, even though it was basically chick lit with added mental illness. The characters were fairly well drawn, and the complexity of family relationships with or without dementia was convincingly explored. The inability of everyone to use contraception was annoying, though.