Review
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Review | Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
She still doesn’t cry; deep in the shock of abandonment, she smooths the folds of her dress, examines her nails, and, as though expecting a return, stares out at the highway down…
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Review | Bottled by Stephanie Ellis
As a child, Tyler lived in fear of his grandfather and his strange bottles. Now Tyler is an adult, his grandfather is dead and his life is entangled with the family secrets once…
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Review | Pine by Francine Toon
After her mother disappeared when she was a baby, Lauren is raised by her father Niall in a small village in the Scottish highlands. The villagers treat them strangely, she is bullied at…
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Review | Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
When their son suddenly dies, Richard and Juliette withdraw into themselves, stricken with trauma. They seek comfort elsewhere. Richard digs for a lost tree on a land rumoured to be cursed. Juliette enlists…
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Review | Cricket Hunters by Jeremy Hepler
When Cel was a teenager, she was part of a group who call themselves the Cricket Hunters. One of them disappeared without a trace and was never found. Fifteen years later, Cel’s husband…
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Review | Six Stories by Matt Wesolowski
Scott King, the host of the Six Stories podcast sets out to examine a case from 1997 where a teen was found dead at an outward bound centre. He interviews six people to…
