Matricide: A Novel | Carla Tomaso | Every woman has considered murdering her mother at least once. The quirky, verse-scribbling, passion-seeking narrator of Carla Tomaso’s Matricide, how
Crocodile Soup: A Novel | Julia Darling | Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother, Jean. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has foun
A Compass Error | Sybille Bedford | In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence
