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Month: September 2020

Book Review – The Biographer’s Lover, by Ruby J. Murray

September 17, 2020 by Bethany Keats
book "the biographer's lover" on a wooden table next to a takeaway container of pasta with a fork in it

This book deserves more attention. The concept is excellent. A fictional artist, Edna Cranmer, and her unnamed biographer, alternating time periods to tell their interwoven lives. It subtly tackles class boundaries, the status of women, and the complex relationship between memory, legacy, and truth. The way the story moves and flows and drops hints, then … [Read more…]

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