The storied life of aj fikry book review6/27/2023 The book that made my year: The resurgence of Jane Gardam’s books has given me as much pleasure as anything this year. Richard Beswick MD, Little, Brown and Abacus To me this is the first fictional nature writing to match the qualities of its much lauded non-fiction counterparts. I then went back to his first novel, The Long Dry, a beautiful, melancholic meditation on farming life. I wish I’d published: I was overwhelmed by Cynan Jones’s The Dig, a novel that somehow transforms the unlikely raw material of badger-baiting and the death of a spouse into a shocking, brutal yet poetic novel. This makes it far from fashionable, and all the more to be applauded.” Claire Messud’s review in this paper perhaps explains why it hasn’t yet broken out: “It is at once quiet and memorable. I believe it is a masterpiece – a novel about two creative spirits whose narrator, Gus, is one of the most arresting women in recent fiction. Our book that deserved to do better: We published a first novel, Life Drawing, by Robin Black, that united its readers in awe and admiration.
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