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It took me some time to get into this book but when I did I enjoyed reading it. The first half of...
The setting is the real star with the backdrop of the sea always present and the weather...
The Narrow Land comes garlanded with praise: by book bloggers whose opinion I respect; from...
This novel is impressively written but has proven a hard slog to read. I've spent weeks on it...
Synopsis; 1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the...
This novel conveys the world of post WW2 beautifully from the viewpoint of a young German boy...
Oh the cover of this is so beautiful and in keeping with the subject matter. Inside there is...
This is a multi-stranded story set in the 1950s about the artists, Jo and Edward Hopper, who are...
This is the first book by the author that I have read and it’s not a type of book that I would...
Really sorry but struggled to get into this book after winning it so couldn’t finish it. I have...
A very unusual book. The characters were sensitively portrayed, and we saw events from multiple...
This book captivated me from the cover, it is a lovely story set in the 1950’s and involves Jo...
This is the first book written by Christine Dwyer Hickey, that I have tried to read. Certainly...
This book is based in postwar America in the 50’s . People were struggling and jobs , families...
I found this book a little hard to get through, it was a bit too dark for me with the mental...
What a beautiful narrative. The description was lovely, detailed and emotive. The story pulls at...
OPEN your mind to the subtle, softly nuanced expressions of the American antebellum mood circa...
Whilst in some aspects of this book that I did enjoy, there were also others that I didn't. I...
I feel like this could have been a fantastic, beautiful story. However, it was slow going and I...
This book kind of looks like the Penguin Classic hardback childrens books that have recently been...
This could be a great story, and it may well be to some, however because the pace is slow going,...
I must say, I was 50/50 on this book most of the way through. However, the writing, characters...
The Narrow Land tells the story of one 1950s summer in Cape Cod in the life of ten-year-old...
I was really looking forward to reading this novel after previously enjoying on of Dwyer Hickey's...
The book starts with Michael, a German orphan, being sent off to live with a family in Cape Cod...
This is a slightly bizarre little book that I struggled to really settle in to, there was just...
I was instantly drawn to the cover of this book, which is very eye catching and clearly a good...
This isn’t the type of book I usually go for. From the preview I thought it was going to be a...
This is a gentle, slow moving book, set largely over a summer in Cape Cod, shoryly after the end...
The cover of this book is a work of art. I'll start with that as its about all I personally...
The Narrow Land is set in Cape Cod during the 1950s. In the first section meet Michael in a...
Chrstine Dwyer Hickey writes about a difficult and sensitive subject in The Narrow Land. Michael...
One comes to a new Christine Dwyer Hickey with high expectations, and these are brilliantly...
The Narrow Land is a beautiful, eloquently written story. Every aspect is described in great...
This book is the story of Michael an orphan from Germany, sent to America after the end of the...
Although i finished the book I didn't enjoy it at all I found it very slow and hard to get into...
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