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The First World Oil War

Hew Strachan and Timothy C. Winegard

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Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global...

Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, and Building Space, C. 1435-1650

Mimi Yiu

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Taking the reader on an inward journey from fayades to closets, from physical to psychic space,...

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

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In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all...

Selected Poems

John Burnside

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Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard...

When I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

Meena Kandasamy

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Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed...

Domestic Violence DV Feminist Feminism Liberating

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Jul 8, 2020

The Last Wife

Karen Hamilton | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

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I wasn’t quite sure what was happening or what was going to happen with this one. It’s told in the first person, and so we see everything through the eyes of Marie (I didn’t even seem to catch her name for the first couple of staves/ instalments). It was described as a thriller, but it seemed a bit ‘domestic drama’ to me. Don’t get me wrong, that’s not a bad thing if that’s what you enjoy, but I don’t think it’s for me. It took a bit of time to get to the crux of the story. It was all a bit long-winded, and I have to admit that I didn’t really enjoy my daily reading session with this one. There are plenty of people who did enjoy it though, so I think it just wasn’t to my taste.

Many thanks to the Pigeonhole for the opportunity to read this.