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My mother drowned on the night of May 23rd, my birthday, in the sea at a place called Spaccavento, a few miles from Minturno.

Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

April 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Troubling Love This Elena Ferrante’s first novel and like her later novel The Lost Daughter there’s a lot here that feels very familiar if you’ve read the Neopolitan Novels. The next novel Days of Abandonment is very different. In this novel, we begin with our narrator finding out that her mother’s body has been found in the water, drowned, from an apparent suicide. She begins retracing her mother’s life in the recent years and weeks, and begins to confront the specters of her mother’s life that were […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, troubling love

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:206 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, troubling love ·
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You will never find a Romanov conspiracy that I will not read.

The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

December 4, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

It wasn’t long after reading Gill Paul’s The Secret Wife, that I learned of her second Romanov conspiracy novel. As previously stated, I AM HERE FOR IT. I don’t care what the premise is, or how far-fetched, I will eat it right up. In this novel, Paul focuses the story on Maria (which, much like in The Secret Wife, it’s so fascinating to read a theory about someone other than Anastasia). Half of this novel focuses on Maria herself, starting just before the family massacre […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Suspense Tagged With: Gill Paul, historical fiction, Romanov, Russia, Suspense, The Lost Daughter

kella's CBR11 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, History, Suspense · Tags: Gill Paul, historical fiction, Romanov, Russia, Suspense, The Lost Daughter ·
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