I read Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana in 2018 and absolutely adored it. You can read my review of that book here. Somehow, I never got around to reading the sequel 2019. I rectified…
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Book Review: The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia
Please enjoy this book review of The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia… From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel – her first to be translated into English – about a…
A Book Review: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution… Havana, 1958. The daughter of…
Thoughts on The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
One of my favourite books is The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende. This story uses the Chilean dictatorship period as its backdrop and is infused with the lyrical magical realism which characterises much…