Here are 15 book ‘elves’ that cheered and challenged me in 2015. Each review has just one quote and one comment from me—so they’re short and sweet just as elves should be. Find a stocking filler or two here perhaps … Six bedrooms ‘I was drinking Brandivino, a foul, sultana-flavoured brew.’ Yep. I was there. Bennett Daylight
The stark melancholy of its wintry cover, the complex city I revisited through its pages and the ‘speak-memory’ concept that guides the narrative were all signals that I should have loved Gail Jones’ latest novel, A Guide to Berlin. Other reviewers warmed to the book in ways I didn’t—so, I keep going back to it
The Mothers features four Australian women from three generations—each revealing how ‘having’ a child radically alters her life. Through their eyes, we see the less-than-pretty history of our nation, in which there was no support for women struggling on their own with children and where the forced adoption of the babies of unwed mothers was
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