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Shields falls Short
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Book review; "Unless" by Carol Shields
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Shields falls Short
Review of “Unless” by Carol Shields
Having enjoyed all the other Carol Shields’ novels I have read, I was looking forward to reading this book, which I picked up at a book sale. Written in 2003 it was short-listed for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for fiction. The book begins well in an intimate conversational tone. We quickly learn about the narrator, her home life and about what she is and does, and by the end of the first chapter the main nub of the story has been introduced. After this, it seems to me, the book...Read More
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Bethany Askew is the author of eight novels:
The Time Before, The World Within, Out of Step, Counting the Days, Poppy’s Seed, Three Extraordinary Years,The Two Saras and I know you, Don’t I?
She has also written a short story, The Night of the Storm, and she writes poetry.
Two more women’s fiction books have been accepted for publication in 2020 and 2021 respectively and she is currently working on a new novel.
In her spare time she enjoys reading, music, theatre, walking, Pilates, dancing and voluntary work.
Bethany is married and lives in Somerset.
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