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Caroline Palmer || Work Horse
I am in two minds about Work Horse. When I started reading Palmer’s novel I was rather afraid it would turn out to be a combination of The Devil Wears Prada and Bridget Jones, the heroine bearing a striking resemblance to the talented young woman who does not recognise her own merits and is to be revealed as kind of brilliant and beautiful towards the end. Work Horse stops following that pattern…
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Megha Majumdar || A Guardian and a Thief
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2026 Some spoilers In Majumdar’s novel all good intentions come to nothing due to circumstances. Main character Ma is about to emigrate to the United States where she, her daughter and father are to join her husband. Living in a future India that is tortured by immense heat the move will free them from their daily sorrows, will have them become unwelcome…
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Elaine Castillo || Moderation
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2026 Castillo threw me into a world unknown to me, that of moderators keeping content within the rules. Girlie Delmundo is one of those moderators, working daily on content of an illegitimate sexual nature. Through Girlie we are also confronted with a world in which lowly operators like the moderators are ill-paid and given few opportunities to grow – moneywise…
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Florence Knapp || The Names
It is an intriguing concept: would somebody’s life vary based upon this person’s name? Would mine have turned out differently if I had not been called Liliane (based on ‘lily’ – signifying purity, innocence and beauty) but Maud, my father’s nickname for me (fierce fighter)? I’ll never know (though those knowing me personally will tell you Maud did rub off 😉). Knapp’s readers will know whether a…
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Laila Lalami || Dream Hotel
Women’s Prize Longlist 2025 Dream Hotel is a dystopic novel with a message that is highly actual: beware of digital devises, algorithms and such, they might take over your life. In Dream Hotel the main character’s dreams are sufficient reason to lock her up. Apparently the algorithms based on her dreams have predicted she might want to harm her husband. An interesting theme one might say. Laila…
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Elizabeth Day || One of UsÂ
Elizabeth Day presents us with an insight into a very British world in which one’s birth will always define one’s place in society, leaving capable people feeling left out because they were not soaked in upper class rules. Main character Martin is one of those people. He basked in the attention of best friend Ben for a long time. At the start of the novel their friendship is renewed, offering…
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Maria Reva || Endling
Booker Prize 2025 Longlist The past year I’ve been avoiding Reva’s novel. For some kind of reason I was just not drawn to a novel apparently combining snails and the war in Ukraine. When Endling was almost chosen for my book club I decided the time had come to finally read the novel. To be quite pleasantly surprised. An endling is the last known individual of a species. In the novel the endling…
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Elizabeth Strout || The Things We Never Say
Those who have been following me for some time know I am a huge Strout fan. Every new novel is approached with some trepidation: will it live up to expectations, will the standard be high as usual? The answer is simply ‘yes’. In a mere two hundred pages Strout manages to paint a picture of a decent, ordinary man faced with problems fellow ordinary people may also face. Main character in The…
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Claire Adam || Love Forms
Booker Prize Longlist 2025 Main character Dawn has become fifty-eight. Born in Trinidad, she has lived a major part of her life in London. She has been through divorce, tries to take care of her grown-up sons and has been on a search for the daughter she gave up for adoption many years ago. In Love Forms we follow her in the now and visit the past with her. We come to know her feelings and her…
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Anjet Daanje || The Remembered Soldier / De Herinnerde Soldaat
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Rozie Kelly || Kingfisher
Kingfisher is one of those precious little novels describing a moment in narrators’ lives that will determine the rest of their lives for ever. In the case of Kingfisher’s narrator, whose name is never revealed, it is the moment he meets ‘the poet’, an older woman he is immediately drawn to. Our narrator is a thirty something living with his other half Michael; the latter is commercially…
Marcia Hutchinson || The Mercy Step
At first I did not take to The Mercy Step. The first chapters were loud and brazen, too loud for my liking. When I got used to Hutchinson’s and main character Mercy’ s style I allowed myself to be slowly dragged into The Mercy Step. To be rewarded with a magnificent novel that described life in a dysfunctional family from a young child’s point of view, adding layers that allowed some lenience on…
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Alice Evelyn Yang || A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Some spoilers In A Beast Slinks Towards Bejijng we are introduced to Qianze, a twentysomething financial professional set on having a successful career. Enter her father and her life will never be the same. His presence will burden her daily life, it also brings back old memories she had been trying hard to forget. More important, new facts about her family surface. Yang has cleverly divided…
Karl Geary – Juno Loves Legs
Some spoilers Juno and Legs are the main characters in Geary’s novel. Two adolescents living their lives in unhappy circumstances. At first I was not quite sure they were interesting enough to keep on reading. I did and was rewarded with a novel that flawlessly put the finger on the effect of growing up in a loveless environment, depending for health and sanity on your one and only…
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Chris Kraus || The Four Spent The Day Together
On the cover of The Four Spent The Day Together I was promised a main character becoming obsessed with a murder having taken place at a place nearby her own home. Imagine my surprise I had to get through two third of the novel, some 184 pages, before the murder was first mentioned. The first part of Kraus’ novel being dedicated to a description of main character’s Catt’s life. Far from being ‘a…
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Kit de Waal || The Best of Everything
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2026 In The Best of Everything main character Paulette has a perfect idea about how things are going to turn out: she is to marry the love of her life Denton, they are going to have a lovely honeymoon and some great children. Her married life is going to be one of continual bliss. Things however turn out differently. Not only is Denton killed in a car accident…
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