BookPub reading group. A story about Harold who after retiring and living a boring life, set out to post a letter. One step leads to another and he decides to deliver by hand. Others follow… read the book it’s gentle and easy going. Our Group enjoyed it with an average score of 6/10 me 3 was all I can offer
Score 3/10
Date read May 2019
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This is one dreary novel. I’m sorry to say I gave up on page 104. A historical story written backwards, supposedly a murder mystery too. Not for me…
Score 3/10
Date read April 2019
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BookPub reading group. A dystopian novel. What the author does very well is deliver the sense of cold and boredom. In a world where England is protected by a wall around the coast from ‘others’ trying to get in. A modern day National Service the youth are enlisted to guard the country. But fail and you are left adrift outside the wall where the unknown is. The group also scored average 5.5/10 particularly good narration on this recording.
Score 5.5/10
Date read April 2019
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Masterly writing and an interesting story, not one you can just trot through. It stretches your imagination and has thought provoking events and characters. Gretel, is looking for her mother around the canals of Oxfordshire. When she was a teenager, they lived alone on a houseboat, but mother Sarah abandoned her, she ended up in foster care. Sixteen years later, Gretel receives a short phone call from her mother and vows to find her. Listed for the Booker, not bad for a debut novel
Score 7/10
Date read March 2019
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