Ruby Porter’s writing grips you from the opening volley of words. Her writing has the intensity of Sally Rooney, the rawness of Andrew McGahan’s Praise and 1988 but is also distinctly original. The narrator of the novel infuses the story with an amazing voice that is immensely fragile and beautifully haunting.
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This amazing novel is set in Zambia over two centuries and follows three generations from three families whose lives become coiled together. Namwali Serpell’s debut is not just genre defying but genre encompassing; part-fairy tale, part-historical epic, it is a tragic love story and cutting edge science fiction. This book literally has it all. With echoes of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Richard Powers’ The Overstory this sweeping, drifting story is a perfect commentary on the 21st Century and all its failings including those still to come.
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Every year there are amazing books written and brilliant new writers to be discovered but there is a hint of something extra special going on at the moment. With writers like Lisa Halliday and Sally Rooney I feel we are heralding in a new golden age of novelists. Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry reads like a classic from the Richard Yates era and Sally Rooney’s Normal People is so assured and meticulously insightful you would be forgiven thinking both these writers were midway through their careers not at the start of them. You can add Dana Czapnik’s The Falconer to this list. It is quite simply an extraordinary novel and I don’t think I can adequately describe how much I love this book. … More Dana Czapnik’s THE FALCONER
