Book Review – Page 7 – Scuffed Granny

Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls by R.S. Downie

Ruso’s life as a doctor is busy. Add rescued slave, disappearing girls, family, pedants and dogs and it gets interesting – and troubling

A book about four friends, set in Ireland, centring on how they are all there for each other – but are there secrets that could divide them?

A book very much of our time where questions of authorship and cultural appropriation are rife – an interesting read

A book of boys and baseball which rolls along at a fair old pace, with humour, cracking dialogue and scrapes and incidents galore

Little Deaths is a book about character and about how what we see does not necessarily represent everything we think we know about someone

A book which reveals itself gradually, uncoiling before us while being told through the eyes of our narrator, Cadence, but can we trust her?

Sandra Tyler in her memoir has crafted something which at times is hard to read in its candour but whose essence is deeply touching

A story based on a true incident from Icelandic history which is rich in its storytelling, and its evocation of character and place

A book of family and the tensions that create the ebb and flow, to and fro, between its members, told from different viewpoints

A small collection of stories which are strong in what they depict from family bonds to the resilience of the human spirit