The Stranding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

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But there is also something very hard to figure out about them: an unexplained child washed up on the shore almost feels like something out of folktale.

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Throughout the novel we are gripped by the narrative, we are caught up in these characters’ reality.

Ruth, the central protagonist, is wholly relatable: she is young, perhaps hedonistic, or maybe she's just seeking distraction, denying the reality of her quotidian. I had a gut feeling [about this book], but when I started getting comments like that from authors I really, really admire, it was such an incredible affirmation that yes, this is good,” says Kate. The tips about writing technique and process are really interesting and the reading recommendations are great too; I’ve increased my TBR by about forty books since listening!

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In the meantime, we should abandon traditional distinctions between high- and lowbrow fiction and trust to fragments. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Cunning Women is an addictive novel from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction, sure to be loved by fans of The Essex Serpent, The Binding, and The Mercies. It seems that authors these days are supposed to be cool - maybe they always have been; maybe Virginia Woolf was cool - but I’m really excited and I’m not going to pretend I’m not,” she says. The dual storyline is really well-handled and raises questions about who we are and how we start again after tragedy.Both texts use this space to explore the nature of love and interdependence; both do so with deep compassion. But by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests are gone, and Kate is spinning out of control. The narrative settles into a compelling rhythm and, before long, it starts to become clear that these two seemingly opposed genres have a great deal in common. I’ve taken to thinking of her as mine because she has burrowed inside and made a home in my ribcage,” she says, when the reality is that the bird is just a dot on a sonar panel, and finally an absence.

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It follows a teenage girl, Chance, after her family (who previously lived in state-funded emergency housing in London) are given a cash grant to relocate to the derelict seaside resort. It was the worst royal, sexual, political scandal of the 17th century and, according to some historians, of many centuries. Sawyer says the initial idea for the plot came from a simple writing prompt during a 28-day challenge.Tucker asks what it is that drives a child so young to murder, what are the psychological consequences of such an horrific act and is there ever a chance of redemption for so terrible a crime? As they will learn, in a place ravaged by floods, it is only a matter of time before the bones of the past emerge.

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But an unexpected turn of events shakes the foundation of their friendship to its core, leaving their future in doubt - there's simply too much to forgive, let alone forget. Now Stan is revelling in all that the city has to offer, while Charlie seems to have hit a brick wall. Ecosystems are not human, and they certainly don’t bear human responsibilities,” argued the bill’s organisers.In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot,” he wrote of the picture, which was taken by an amateur photographer who spotted the photo-op as she was about to skydive out of a plane. The narrative does not waste time with unnecessary, polysyllabic descriptive passages: the author’s vision is simply, yet evocatively translated to each page, on which we are but another character. This isn’t so fanciful, given the “rights of nature” movement, which Robert Macfarlane has described as “the new animism”.