by Summer Phillips | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Reviews
I wait for the fly to leave, to catch a scent from outside, a familiar breeze. But it doesn’t. It continues crossing from one side of the room to another. (p.137, Burnt Sugar) Burnt Sugar is a compelling story of daughter and mother rivalry, and the intertwined...
by Summer Phillips | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Reviews
The heaviness in her chest inched up to her throat. She guessed it had to do with being somewhere so familiar when such familiarity wasn’t supposed to exist anymore. (p.232, The New Wilderness) Bea has relinquished life in the overcrowded City, with its toxic air and...
by Summer Phillips | Nov 10, 2020 | Book Reviews
“The rifle had disappeared… Soon she will have to admit it is nowhere. It has slipped into a crevice that can swallow girls just as easily as it devours guns.” (p.24, The Shadow King) On the verge of World War Two, Italy invades Ethiopia. The year is 1935, the...
by Summer Phillips | Nov 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the dark spaces between the puddles of weak yellow light, flying insects whirl and hurl themselves against the windscreen, following their instincts for brighter places. (p.209, This Mournable Body) Like such insects, Tambudzai strives to create, or have delivered...
by Summer Phillips | Mar 14, 2020 | Book Reviews
“In the stirrups now. Wish you were here..” A captivating first novel by Candice Carty-Williams and if you are anything like me, you will devour it in a few sittings as you are jettisoned into Queenie’s life. Queenie and Tom are on a break, partly brought on by...
