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Turning for Home
Turning for Home | Barney Norris
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The brilliant new novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN. 'Courageous...memorable...moving' - Guardian 'One of our most exciting young writers' - The Times 'Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant' - Donal Ryan 'Isnt the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? People live in the space between the realities of their lives and the hopes they have for them. The whole world makes more sense if you remember that everyone has two lives, their real lives and their dreams, both stories only a tapes breadth apart from each other, impossibly divided, indivisibly close.' Every year, Robert's family come together at a rambling old house to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, distant cousins - it has been a milestone in their lives for decades. But this year Robert doesn't want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met - and neither, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Neither of them is sure they can face the party. But for both Robert and Kate, it may become the most important gathering of all. As lyrical and true to life as Norris's critically acclaimed debut Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, this is a compelling, emotional story of family, human frailty, and the marks that love leaves on us.
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Libby1
Turning for Home | Barney Norris
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1️⃣. Glenwood, Illinois
2️⃣. Pierre Loti
3️⃣. All is lost
4️⃣. Anywhere there is good light!
5️⃣. Tagged! 😃

#littenintro
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tessavi Thank you for joining and the recommendation! 6y
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JamieLou
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Hey Littens! You are amazing! Thanks for welcoming me into this badass community. Here‘s hoping 2019 brings you all nothing but peace, love, and good things.

MaleficentBookDragon The same to you! 🎉 6y
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Libby1
Turning for Home | Barney Norris
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Intricately written.

A strange book with some flaws (the two narrator‘s voices weren‘t distinct from one another), but I don‘t care about that. Juxtapose Northern Ireland‘s past with a birthday party and a young woman with secrets and decades of personal and societal pain? Is the personal political? Absolutely.

I imagine that review makes no sense, but this book does. It is about healing and kindness and grace. Such things always make sense.

Cinfhen Beautiful review and #stacked 6y
Cathythoughts I love your review, stacked 6y
Libby1 @Cinfhen and @Cathythoughts - it‘s my absolute favourite when people decide to stack when they‘ve read one of my reviews. It makes me so happy! 6y
Cinfhen And I‘m always filled with dread, hoping they will love a book as much as I did!!!! 6y
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Libby1
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Today‘s #LibraryHaul !

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Love that pot 😻 6y
Libby1 @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego - my friend bought it for me at a Cats Protection rescue centre fundraiser. 😻 6y
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Andrew65
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May regret this but can never resist a Readathon or reading challenge, so will be joining #MakeMeReadIt Readathon.
As I understand it I choose books from my TBR which you all get to vote on during July. I then read the one with the most votes first in August, then the one with the second most votes next & so on. Just off to choose 12 books for the Readathon for you to vote on. Why not join it? Just be sure to tag the wonderful @TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage 🤗😘 6y
kspenmoll I joined; sounds like such fun! 6y
Andrew65 @kspenmoll I agree! 6y
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debthmpsn
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@amber_ldsmom oh my gosh. A Million THANK YOUs...this complete made my day. I love everything about this especially the personalized notes on the books and a tale of two cities. The socks, the soap, the book mark, the BOOKS! It‘s all so perfect. Thank you thank you thank you!!
#funinthesunsummerbookswap

amber_ldsmom You‘re so welcome! I had so much fun, and my husband and I were cracking up while I was writing the Tale of Two Cities, 😂. So glad you liked everything! 6y
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GoldenGirl
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This is so hard (and I know I'm a day late lol) but I've narrowed it down:
1. The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
2. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
3. It by Stephen King or Duma Key
4. Game of Thrones by GRRM
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

#manictuesday #isthatathing #allthebooks

Dolly #3 I guess IT wouldn't be so scary out there😁🤡 7y
GoldenGirl @Dolly Lol Right 7y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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This picture doesn‘t do this beautiful iris justice!!! I‘ve been watching and waiting for it to bloom for days and it did today!! One of God‘s ways of saying everything will be ok 💜 Thank you so much for the beautiful card!! So happy we have met and I love our book club!! 😘😘😘

#LitsyLove

BarbaraJean Goodness, that‘s a gorgeous bloom! Hope you‘re having a lovely day! 7y
robinb A thing of beauty! ❤️ 7y
Violetta Wow, such a beautiful iris! 😍 7y
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BookwormAHN Beautiful 💜 7y
tammysue So pretty! ❤️ 7y
TheBookHippie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘 7y
BookaholicNatty This is Gorgeous! I just want to lay around your yard and read lol 😍📚 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @BookaholicNatty just come on!! I have an extra room!! ☺️ 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @BarbaraJean thank you!! I can‘t believe how gorgeous it is!! 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @whatshesreadingnow thank you!! I have been planting my zinnias today! I‘m pooped!! 7y
TNbookworm Gorgeous! My mama grew iris and I always think of her when I see one💜 7y
jenmoody23 What a beautiful iris! Our little town is celebrating The Iris Festival this week so you see them everywhere here. 😃💜 (edited) 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @jenmoody23 oh I would love that!!!!!!!! 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TNbookworm awwww ❤️❤️❤️ 7y
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