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Five Days of Fog
Five Days of Fog | Anna Freeman
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London, December, 1952. At the beginning of what will come to be known as the Great Smog, Ruby Palmer waits to be released from prison. At home her daughter, Florrie, also waits, knowing that the moment her mother returns she herself will face a choice: stay where she is, in the heart of her matriarchial and criminal family, or leave it all to make a safer, duller life with a decent young man. But what will she do if she's too crooked to go straight, and too good to go bad? Over the next five days, as London grinds to a halt in impenetrable and poisonous fog, Florrie will have to find her own path and the courage to stumble along it. Five Days of Fog follows the last days of a crumbling female gang in post-war London, in a fog so thick that you can't see your own feet. It's a story of family, of finding your way, and of deciphering a route through the greyest areas of morality.
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Five Days of Fog | Anna Freeman
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This is a cracking read but seems a little under the radar which is a shame as it's really nicely written & hugely enjoyable. I loved the use of the fog, not just as atmospheric set dressing, but as a perhaps not over subtle/sophisticated but still effective metaphor. It is oppressive, inescapable, all-pervasive and smotheringly claustrophobic. The fog & the criminal life she desperately wants to escape are indistinguishable for MC Florence. ⬇️⬇️

readingjedi Continued from above: There are also some fabulous female characters in the novel & the story is just brimming with authenticity. 4y
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Five Days of Fog | Anna Freeman
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"Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist"?

YES PLEASE I'LL HAVE SOME OF THAT! ??

Starting this one tonight. With thanks to #netgalley for this book.

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Five Days of Fog | Anna Freeman
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I really enjoyed Anna Freeman's first novel, the Fair Fight, but saw very little fuss about it when it came out. Good reviews - just not many of them- I reckon it was a little #underrated. Her new book _might_ have been spotted on Netgalley (UK) recently, but I'm exercising restraint (I'm SO behind on reviews!). *

*In case you didn't get it, that was a subtle hint for anyone with a spare week & a NetGalley account to go read it!

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