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Lawson's writing is clear and emotive; and while the balance between the missing Rose and Elizabeth's past falls somewhat off kilter as the novel progresses, Clara remains its most compelling character. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and selected for the Richard and Judy book club. Mothering Sunday (Scribner) by Graham Swift was not published this year, I know, but was picked up by me at the secondhand stall of Didcot Parkway station. Its resolution seems hurried as well, which is a shame as the rest of novel moves at a perfect pace.This is the third Booker listing for Damon Galgut; The Promise follows a white South African family in the decades before and after the end of apartheid, weighing broken promises on a national and individual level. After her first novel, the article describes Mary Lawson as surprised by her success: "I really didn't know what I had done right. She has her finger in many pies from teaching to being a senior library consultant at Consilium Education to being executive editor at NotesVilla.

Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered.

A continental shield is a large expanse of land where Precambrian rocks are exposed through the Earth's crust. Ishiguro makes the cut alongside some heavyweight names, from Richard Powers, chosen for the yet-to-be-published Bewilderment, about a widowed astrobiologist trying to raise his nine-year-old son, to Rachel Cusk, longlisted for Second Place, in which a woman invites an artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives. Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, Alice Munro and Carol Shields are just a few of the authors who like to explore this tug between wanting to leave and wanting to stay. She als

I think it can be read as a simple story, but there’s way more going on beneath the surface and in terms of literary devices that can be easily overlooked. And it made me laugh out loud – often, little surprises and a fabulous last laugh for the closing scene. They must have lots of things in them because they were heavy, you could tell by the way the man walked when he carried them in, stooped over, knees bent. She has carved out a world in northern Ontario that's vividly, absorbingly real; she captures tones and voices with exactitude in writing that's idiomatic but never flashy and carries you along from midnight to dawn, oblivious of the time.She simply wants him to leave everything where it has always been – she can accept no more upset in her life – and to feed the cat. The author's considerable talent lies in creating unique and memorable characters, and she's at her best here. Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward (Virago) is razor-sharp on any number of things, above all the insoluble ravages of time.