Elsie Fitzpatrick has spent decades hiding her past, and the seven-year-old across the road is not helping. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth is a mystery with a grump worth rooting for.
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Hayden Panettiere spent her whole life having her story told by other people. She finally wrote it herself, and just as I was finishing her story, she was gone.
One inherited memoir. Four generations of family silence. When Mikan Road Was Ours asks what happens when the past you barely know has been shaping you all along.
I went into this expecting an easy answer about why we dream and instead found myself inside the emotional machinery of nightmares. Turns out, the tidal wave chasing you in your sleep might have a lot more to say than...
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