Esme Young’s Behind the Seams was a gift from my daughter, as she knows I’ve enjoyed “The Great Sewing Bee”. So, of course, I read it. It was a quick and pleasant read. Like many celebrity autobiographies, its focus is on who the author knows and who she has interacted with over the years. It is well-written, and her style and voice are engaging.
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller is an unusual book set in what appears to be roughly contemporary times. The story unfolds through a series of letters from the narrator, Neffy, to ‘H’, who we later learn is an octopus that Neffy freed from an aquarium where she’d previously worked.
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Kate Atkinson’s Normal Rules Don’t Apply is a remarkable collection of eleven interconnected stories that expertly blend the complexity of its narrative with profound themes of human nature, the disruption of time, and the power of storytelling. Notably, it’s her first full collection in two decades.