Today’s team review is from Judith, she blogs here https://judithbarrowblog.com/
Judith has been reading Someone Close To Home by Alex Craigie
My Review:
It’s been quite a while since I read a book in one go but I couldn’t put this one down. Someone Close to Home sent me through a whole range of emotions; delight, sadness, anger, joy, frustration. And this is a debut novel! The writing style of Alex Craigie is sophisticated, emotive and empathetic.
The start of the story grabbed me straightaway: the image of the protagonist, Megan, watching “each minuscule judder of the hand (of the clock)”, her immobility and her thoughts on her childhood, especially of her selfish and destructive mother who Megan loathed – still loathes, is compulsive reading. There is one sentence that foreshadows all that happens as the story continues: ‘This is all down to my mother… she’s been dead for over thirty years now…
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A stunning review, Judith! You certainly made me want to read it. Hugs.
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Thank you,Teagan. I do hope that you one day read this.x
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This sounds like a great read. Wonderful review, especially as an author’s debut!
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I thoroughly enjoyed it, Diana. Thank you. Yes, impressed it’s a debut novel
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