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A quiet, melancholic and ultimately affirming book about how we navigate the griefs we can carry across a lifetime and how connected we are to eachother, even from a tiny village on the edge of nowhere. I'll be thinking about this one a while.

(Could have done with fact-checking re neap tides and red-beaked gulls, but that's just me being finicky.)

Intricately plotted and brilliantly crafted, Falling Animals starts with a dead body on a beach and uses that catalyst to spiral outwards into a story of connections made and missed, losses incremental and total, grief, love, loneliness, and beauty. An incredibly effective and affecting read.

What a lovely surprise!
Thank you, @TrishB ; this sounds great! ❤️

Mysterious strangers in Irish coastal villages, 1 living, 1 dead. Who are they, and how will their secrets unfold?

The library‘s new books shelf had a bit of a theme going on. And somehow I‘ve never read John Boyne, so now seemed like the time.

Loved this, which I read because it features on the BBC‘s Between The Covers.

An unidentified man is found sitting serenely, but lifeless, on a beach in Ireland. The book is a series of vignettes of the lives of the villagers and other people who may have known the man previously.

It‘s a beautifully written, lyrical book; one of those that‘s very quiet but impactful.

@TrishB - I hadn‘t realised until now you also read (and loved!) this one.

Thank you for this wonderful birthday bundle, @Cathythoughts ! ❤️

The tagged book sounds so intriguing and I love the other two that you picked because you thought I‘d like the covers. I do! 😆 I‘m a Jane Gardam fan but I haven‘t read this one!

The pretty reading gloves will be much appreciated in this old house this winter and, as always, I loved your sweet note. You‘re a dear friend. 😘

Oh this was so beautiful. Lovely writing, brilliant characters. There is next to no plot but I didn‘t want it to end. Minutiae of people‘s lives and inner feelings so wonderfully explored.
I have one of those, so happy to have read this book feelings.

There is some beautiful writing in this book ❤️

Today‘s read. Look at that cover ❤️

Part 3 of treat your self day - books, of course ♥️ - and new leather bookmarks in Waterstones (I hadn‘t seen them before).