“Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.” When Kya is just six, her family abandon her, one by one. The hardest loss is her mother, but it is the disappearance of her alcoholic and abusive father that leaves her reliant on the natural world of the swamp […]
Lily Owens yearns for her mother. Unfortunately, not only is her mother dead, but Lily believes she killed her. Trapped on a peach farm in South Carolina with her abusive father, T-Ray, Lily longs to become a writer, but can’t imagine how her life will ever amount to anything. One hot July day, inspired by […]
Not all books repay rereading; this one does. With only two weeks to go now until the publication on July 14th of ‘To Set a Watchman’, it seems timely to reflect on Harper Lee’s previously published and much lauded novel, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Harder Lee’s 1960 novel is considered a masterpiece of American literature […]
Don’t judge this book by its seriously creepy cover. (Seriously. Creepy.) If you did, you might miss out on a treat. What’s it about? 13 year old Harriet is trying hard to grow up. Her reluctant entrance into adolescence is made worse by her parents’ reactions to her long-dead brother: her father has moved away, […]