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Clare Morrall

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First published by a small independent press in England, Clare Morrall defied all odds by shooting up the literary ladder and becoming a finalist for the Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary award in England Clare Morrall's lives in Birmingham, England, where she's raised two grown children visa mer and is a music teache visa färre
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Verk av Clare Morrall

Astonishing Splashes of Colour (2003) 663 exemplar
The Man Who Disappeared (2010) 121 exemplar
The Language of Others (2008) 105 exemplar
When the Floods Came (2016) 64 exemplar
The Roundabout Man (2012) 47 exemplar
The Last of the Greenwoods (2018) 32 exemplar
After the Bombing (2014) 19 exemplar
A Booker Trio (2009) 1 exemplar
By the Light of the Moon (2013) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar

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I made it to Chapter 4. It wasn't holding my attention: nothing had really happened up to this point; I found I had been reading and taking nothing in. Maybe I've spent too much time in motorway service stations to find the setting in any way captivating. I though the plot was a bit thin and none of the characters were engaging me. Maybe it gets better, but I will give it a miss.
 
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Triduana | 8 andra recensioner | Jan 25, 2022 |
An agreeable, often very funny novel about music and the difficulty of making sense of the rest of humanity when you are somewhere on the autism spectrum. I felt it was slightly spoilt by the way all the female characters (except the main viewpoint character, her mother and her mother-in-law) were competent, resourceful, tactful domestic angels and almost all the male characters were infantile monsters who seemed to exist only to sleep, have tantrums and be fed. Obviously not an unrealistic view of the world, but a somewhat monochrome one...… (mer)
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thorold | 13 andra recensioner | Nov 4, 2021 |
Quinn has settled into a kind of contentment after living for 5 years in a caravan on a roundabout when his peace is disturbed - shortly after an interview with a journalist, he is attacked and his home is trashed. He finds himself relying on the hospitality of a nearby service station where he has been a regular cafeteria patron.

This is the opening for a quirky and moving story about an older man remembering his childhood and coming to a new understanding of it. It is quite slow paced but I liked the writing and the quiet humour. Quinn and his triplet sisters grew up with a mother who was an acclaimed writer of children's books, in which they appeared as characters, but the reality was rather less idyllic than the fiction or than her public persona.

One for fans of reflective fiction rather than action packed stories.

Reviewed March 2012. I received a copy for review through the Amazon Vine programme.
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elkiedee | 8 andra recensioner | Jun 22, 2021 |
I really liked this book, it was so well written and drew me in immediately.The only fault I would say is that I was hoping for a more definite conclusion for this troubled couple, but otherwise perfect.
 
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myers3 | 28 andra recensioner | Dec 20, 2019 |

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Verk
10
Även av
1
Medlemmar
1,250
Popularitet
#20,521
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
79
ISBN
100
Språk
5
Favoritmärkt
7

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