#BookReview of #Moth by Melody Razak | @imaginearoad | @wnbooks

Observer‘s ‘Ten Debut Novelists’ of 2021′Harper’s Bazaar‘s ‘Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer’– MOTH [ About the Book ] Delhi, 1946Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter – precocious, headstrong Alma– is soon to be married: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning…

#BookReview of #NORA by Nuala O’ Connor | @NualaNiC | @NewIslandBooks

‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose…. “Nora,” Jim says, “you are story.”’– NORA [ About the Book ] When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets…

#BookReview of #FreshWaterForFlowers by @valerieperrin_ (Translated by Hildegarde Serle) | @EuropaEdUK | @midaspr

‘A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.‘– Fresh Water for Flowers [ About the Book ] Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers,…