3 Oct 2023

Books with Claire Mabey

From Afternoons, 2:08 pm on 3 October 2023

The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzberg Ginzberg was an Italian writer who died in 1991 and in the past few years her books have been translated and reprinted and finding a whole new audience. The Dry Heart was first published in 1947 and is a very short novel about a women who shoots her husband. It's incredibly moving, and brutal but told with her astonishing style - very clear writing, minimal description, just movement and action. Dazzlehands by Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan, Skellig by David Almond