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Book review: Hamnet by Maggie O`Farrell

HAMNET by Maggie O`Farrell. Hachette UK Books. 2020 release. Hamnet, winner of the 2020 Women`s Prize for Fiction,  is a lyrical eulogy in prose, dealing with the death of the eponymous character, the only son of a man from Stratford who was in the glove business, then went to London and turned (celebrated) playwright. He…

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Book review: Nutshell by Ian McEwan

This is more a brief take than review. So, this is about pretty Trudy who is cuckolding her  failed  poet husband John with his brother Claude, a property developer. John is getting rather inconvenient, even intractable,  and so they decide to do away with him. Yes, poison. What they don`t know is they have a witness-…

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