Researching death and death ritual for my WIP and thankful to have come across this... #SusieBoyt #mourning #AmWriting

Cover of Ladies' Lunch by Lore Segal. A woman with grey hair, seen from the back, looking out a car window at a New York street.

Cover of Dear Michael by Natalia Ginzburg. An abstract image of a white window on a back background.

Cover of Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt. An expressionist-style image of a woman and child in brown, beige, red and white on a dark blue background.

Cover of Heureux les heureux by Yasmina Reza. Red text on a cream background.

Some fiction I read and liked in 2024.

📚 #lit #fiction
#LoreSegal #NataliaGinzburg #SusieBoyt #YasminaReza

Book cover of Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt, with a brightly coloured image of a woman and child by the artist Chantal Joffe.

Just finished reading this marvellous, unsettling novel about motherhood, grand-motherhood, addiction, childhood, friendship, betrayal and death.

It's devastating, amusing and surprising (a late-ish revelation sends the reader back to page one), yet never sentimental.

📚 #NYRB #SusieBoyt

#SundaySentence from Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

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#SusieBoyt