Thirty Days is a slice of life so compelling and warm that I stayed up far too late to finish it. And was then very miserable: oh, what an ending! Annelies Verbeke’s novel was voted the best of 2015 by thousands of its original Dutch and Flemish readers. It’s out now in a fine English … Continue reading Peculiar stories: Annelies Verbeke’s Thirty Days
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So much unhappy beauty: Robin Hyde’s The Godwits Fly
Perhaps I’ve been reading too much Ngaio Marsh lately, but when I saw in the Persephone catalogue that they were reprinting Robin Hyde’s The Godwits Fly (1938), handily on the eve of a trip to London, I went straight to their shop. I had come across references to Hyde’s writing when I was reading a … Continue reading So much unhappy beauty: Robin Hyde’s The Godwits Fly
Kate Macdonald 