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Helen Joyce

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Average rating: 4.62 · 79 ratings · 27 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Good for a Single Journey

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Written in a Barn by Ruth Leimenzon Engles
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This moving, expertly translated, well-researched and fact-checked account brings to life the almost unimaginable suffering, courage and resilience of its author. Written whilst on the run from the Nazis who had wiped out her family and murdered her ...more
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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Portrait
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A gripping, imagined account of the fate of Lucrezia, fifth child of Cosimo and Eleanor de Medici, who was married aged fifteen to Alfonso Duke of Ferrara and died under suspicious circumstances less than a year later. O'Farrel's writing style is stu ...more
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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
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Although very informative about the division of Cyprus and the effect of the political upheavals and clashes between Greece and Turkey over the island, the medium of narration using flora, fauna and even at times insects detracted from this book for ...more
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
American Dirt
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I literally held my breath as I raced through this book with my heart racing anxiously in step with the action. I felt for the heroine trying to get her child to safety. Well-written, informative and well-deserving of the praise heaped upon it. Thoro ...more
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Stoner by John  Williams
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A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
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I have just devoured this excellent book which, despite the unlikely profession of its hero (an embalmer), spans a gamut of human emotions. William, a talented boy gifted with an outstanding singing voice, is the beloved only child in a small but clo ...more
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