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All Adults Here by Emma Straub, novel set in Upstate New York, in fictional Clapham. I imagine the author captures small town East Coast America very well in this novel, the friendships, the feuds, the rallying round and the...
Fall by West Camel, novel set in Deptford, London. This is the third book in recent weeks that I have read, where a tower block is pretty central to the narrative (referencing True Crime Story by Joseph Knox and...
France is the latest destination for us to visit in our ‘Great Books set in series…’ Ten Great Books set in France. France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for...
The Water Garden by Louise Soraya Black, novel set in Surrey. Black’s second novel The Water Garden is a multi-layered tale, shifting forward and back in time and following several generations of the same family. We begin in 2010...
Still Life by Sarah Winman, whimsical novel set in Florence (and London). During WW2, two people’s lives intersect – perhaps on some kind of clandestine mission – in the Tuscan Hills and post war they return to their more...
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