‘The story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage’– A Promised Land My first review of 2021 and it’s of a fascinating and very intense read, A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Published on November 17th 2020 with Viking/Penguin, it is described as a ‘beautifully…
‘He thinks he is on a different train as he begins to wake. A train in Germany just after the war….He reminds himself to keep his eyes shut. Because that’s what you do when you wake up among strangers in Germany….’ [ About the Book ] Cape Cod 1950. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending…
My review today is of a book that broke my heart, the outstanding debut Only Child by Rhiannon Navin, just published by Mantle Books.