The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader Press, 2024) This is my nightmare, I thought as I started reading The Safekeep. Isabel lives alone in her family home. Her parents are both dead and her brothers have long moved out but Isabel is tied to the place, the keeper of this house, even… Continue reading Book Review: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
I heard a lot of mixed reviews for this one before I decided to pick it up and see for myself. Fair warning: this review will also be mixed. Our never-named narrator receives a position in a secretive branch of the UK government. Her new job is to be a "bridge". A bridge is a… Continue reading Book Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Read: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) Writers & Lovers - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 2020) Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha (Ecco, 2019) Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid (Plume, 191) The Gulag Archipelago, Vol 1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Harper Collins Audio,… Continue reading What I Read: January 2025
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