This is life in the 21st century: Wake up and hear the noises of the city around you. Heave your body into a train car, squeezing every last inch of yourself into a vacancy. Physically contact several people during your commute; feel utterly alone. Sit at your desk and consider your work. Encounter ...
Rating: 4.5 StarsUnderground Time is a difficult book to read. I found myself setting it down, time and time again, telling myself I wouldn’t pick it back up because there was enough depression in life without needing to read about it in a book too. When I did, inevitably, pick it up, I found myself...
I won this novel through First Reads, and I absolutely loved it. This was such a well wrought novel with beautifully crafted sympathetic characters; it was a genuine pleasure to read. It reminded me of some of the darker stories by Maggie O’Farrell, only much bleaker. That’s both good and bad. D...