Even novel-reading can only do SO much to fend off end-of-semester end-of-tetheredness...
The last book I loved. (And Margaret Leroy's website is here.)
Other sustenance: Lauren Groff's The Monsters of Templeton (some of the voices ring truer than others, but it is a wonderfully good book, I very much look forward to reading her next one); Carol O'Connell's Crime School (I don't know how I missed this the first time round, I would have said I'd read all of her books - they are odd, but there is something irresistible about them, though I do not think that any of the Mallory books are as good as the standalone thriller The Judas Child); Harlan Coben's Hold Tight.
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I also enjoyed "The Monsters of Templeton" very much - particularly as I was in Cooperstown, NY in 2007. If you have ever visited that town, then you can see how effectively Groff nailed the setting.
ReplyDeleteI also look forward to reading her short story collection. I think she's great.
I will look out for the Darling Daughter (although I too would rather have the UK title) as it sounds great. My end of term reading treat was the new Sarah Waters novel, The Little Stranger - a very good haunted manor story.
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