Category: Issue Eleven Novel Reviews
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Stay Close to Me: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $19.95 Release Date: 1 January 2023 What if? That is the question the three protagonists in bestselling British author Helen Warner’s novel Stay Close to Me explore while processing grief. At the start of a new year, a sudden change or grief can leave us wondering if…
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Out of Breath: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Anna Snoekstra Release Date: 2022 Sometimes instead of running away from our past, we run straight into something far worse: the kindness of strangers. In Out of Breath, the new and fifth thriller novel from Anna Snoekstra, the troubled and insomniac Jo leaves the beachy comforts of Sydney for a mango farm…