Amy Sackville is a novelist worth waiting for. Her debut novel, The Still Point (Portobello Books, 2010) was a book that changed my life. Pressing it on everyone in the interim, I have waited impatiently for her next offering. Orkney is one of the most fascinating novels I have ever read, by one of Britian’s…
Posted on 15th May 2013
Posted on 19th February 2013
After My Own Heart
After My Own Heart, Sophia Blackwell’s debut novel, is an engaging, witty, and uplifting read. The protagonist, Evie Day, is every inch the modern heroine: newly single, she boasts a complex love life, a housing problem, a selection of dodgy best friends and a career she doesn’t like. The novel unfolds in the first person, opening with Evie…
