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Book review: The Break, by Katherena Vermette

March 1, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Break by Katherena Vermette

When Margaret Atwood describes a book as ‘very tough and real’ you know you’re in for a hard few hundred pages. Reading the multi award-winning novel, The Break by Katherena Vermette was like being wounded in a thousand small ways, both through the story itself and the resurrection of my own memories. A 13-year-old girl […]

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Book review: All the Good Things, by Clare Fisher

May 30, 2017 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

All the Good Things by Clare Fisher

All the Good Things is about a 21-year-old woman tries to make sense of her life while in jail for a crime she has difficulty confronting. Beth has been bounced from one foster carer to another in and around London since before she started school. Eventually the path of her life leads to a jail […]

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Review: Like I Can Love, by Kim Lock

March 10, 2016 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Like I Can Love by Kim Lock

‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ ‘How could she kill herself and leave her baby behind?’ These are seemingly-simple questions with not-so-simple answers. Kim Lock answers all of them in horrifying and convincing detail in her new novel, Like I Can Love. About Like I Can Love Fairlie and her best friend Jenna lived happily together in their tiny […]

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Kim Lock – Aussie Author Interview

March 10, 2016 by Rebecca Bowyer 5 Comments

Kim Lock

Kim Lock is an Australian fiction author, mother, breastfeeding counsellor and active feminist. Her second novel, Like I Can Love, will be released by Pan Macmillan Australia on 23 March 2016. I’m thrilled to have Kim Lock with us on the blog today to tell us about her new novel of family secrets and suicide […]

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