Saltwater | 
pickI think the main character felt a little like an attempt at a manic pixie dream girl, or whatever the female protagonist equivalent is that I‘ve found in so much recent fiction, but I did enjoy the story. The pacing was good and I really liked the family dynamic and indirect connections drawn between the protagonist and her mother. I loved the nature descriptions and though the prose was heavy, it was nice. Makes me want to travel to the UK
pickIt‘s been a dream to live in another province. On my 1st day here, I found the public library & got my library card. It was the first thing I did. The plan is to borrow a book & explore the library, one alphabet letter at a time. I really enjoyed this 1st novel by Jessica Andrews. It‘s lyrical & flows back & forth in time over Lucy‘s life, a young woman, just graduated & lost, searching for herself & her ties to her mother. Very good. 4/5
pickA story of a woman in snapshots as she goes to Ireland to stay in her dead g/father's cottage. Thru small pieces we meet her in a childhood in Sunderland, + as a student in London as well as now. The bk is about love of a mother who is like a sister, and abt the essence of life as she grows losing the bond . Poetic and compelling, this is what I love abt bks the chance to inhabit a different life altho as she grows in the 90s+00s i felt ancient
pickSaltwater really tickled some of my niche reading interests, and I liked it a lot more than I expected to. This is a very Rachel Cusk-esque, but through a more youthful lens kind of novel. Told in a series of non-linear vignettes, its a story that‘s full of the introspective reflection about being young, leaving home, and the tension between responsibility and freedom. It won‘t be for everyone but it was for me.
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Very poetical, a story almost only written in short poems. Lots of love for Northern England & Ireland.
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Now that I am in Ireland, I am screaming on vast beaches...
I did not know how much of my story I was entitled to take, and how much of the past I was allowed to leave behind.
This book is largely about the relationship between a mother and her child, from the daughters point of view. This part really affected me. It‘s that feeling that you want to be independent of your mum, but there are times when you just wish you could have them all to yourself. Growing up is hard. Being a grown up can be harder (I‘m experiencing ‘teenager‘ from the parents side just lately 🤯)
