1990s' Chicago: two students fall in love. Twenty years on, theirs is a suburban life of detoxes and home improvements. A warm and sardonic novel by the author of The Nix.
A Yorkshire childhood, remembered in lockdown, collides with immense global forces. Hunters in the Snow, Hildyard's previous novel - her first - was excellent.
Athena, Circe, Penelope, Helen et al.: female characters and narrators are given centre stage in this fine reworking of the familiar. By the author of Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman ... read more