Blogs in March 2015

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night 10th March 2015

At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician. At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At...

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Ru 1st January 1970

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...

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Deja Dead 1st January 1970

Gory detail, and compelling forensic expertise are a marker of this book. In Quebec a serial killer targets women, and severed remains are left in bags close to their bodies. Dr Temperance Brennan assists the police can tell from...

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Winter Wonderland 1st January 1970

Imagine waking up in a snow globe. . . That’s how travel journalist Krista feels when she arrives in magical Quebec to report on Canada’s glittering Winter Carnival. Over ten sub-zero days Krista’s formerly frozen heart begins to melt...

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Still Life 1st January 1970

Jane Neal, 76 year old former school teacher, is found dead on Thanksgiving Sunday in the woods. The police quickly suspect she was killed by an arrow. it is the hunting season, so could it have been an accident?...

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