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Lesley Glaister
Goodreads Author
Born
in Northamptonshire, The United Kingdom
Website
Genre
Influences
Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Taylor, John Fowles
Member Since
December 2013
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A Particular Man
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2024
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Honour Thy Father
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1991
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18 editions
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As Far As You Can Go
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2004
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17 editions
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Blasted Things
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2020
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Little Egypt
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2014
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Nina Todd Has Gone
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2007
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Now You See Me
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2001
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Digging to Australia
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1992
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Easy Peasy
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1997
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Chosen
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2010
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Publication Day
The Squeeze was published yesterday and I spent the whole day in the car, travelling down from Orkney to Edinburgh, which involved an early and queasy start on 6.30 ferry and then about 8 hours driving - Andrew driving all the way as I seem to have developed a phobia about it. Midnight's Children on the radio all day, as it was 70th anniversary of partition and we listening to what we could when w
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I was reluctant to read this novel because it’s partly set in a POW camp during WW2, where Far East Prisoners of War slave on what is often called the Burma Death Railway. My dad was one of these prisoners and, even though I’ve written about it mysel
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American Dirt begins with a bang, literally, a violent and shocking scene that nearly put me off. If I’d been reading on the page, I think I might not have continued, as I don’t enjoy violence, but, as I was listening on Audible, I gave it a bit long
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"Probably Lesley Glaisters longest novel to date and I think maybe her best. Great writing as usual with all the skills of a creative writing teacher that you would expect. There is good plot tension but early on seemed a bit slow but this is remedied"
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| Much has been written about the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, so it was bold of Ali Bacon to take him as the subject of her new novel, which she does so with great success. The heart of the story is the triangular relationship between Stevenson and ...more | |
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| I have enjoyed Emerson's previous novels, particularly enjoying the exotic settings and the tense and twisty plots, and The Last Mrs Sinclair certainly does not disappoint. It's largely set in a chateau in the French countryside during a sweltering s ...more | |
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| I was excited by this little book; it’s utterly different from anything I’ve read before. Rather than the usual developed paragraphs, this writer has told her story in short, simple sentences, always starting with the subject, which is very often the ...more | |
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| American Dirt begins with a bang, literally, a violent and shocking scene that nearly put me off. If I’d been reading on the page, I think I might not have continued, as I don’t enjoy violence, but, as I was listening on Audible, I gave it a bit long ...more | |
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| I was reluctant to read this novel because it’s partly set in a POW camp during WW2, where Far East Prisoners of War slave on what is often called the Burma Death Railway. My dad was one of these prisoners and, even though I’ve written about it mysel ...more | |
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| American Dirt begins with a bang, literally, a violent and shocking scene that nearly put me off. If I’d been reading on the page, I think I might not have continued, as I don’t enjoy violence, but, as I was listening on Audible, I gave it a bit long ...more | |
“When she entered the sitting room she was not at first noticed. The music had changed now, to something slower, and the women were dancing; Harri’s dark head against the breast of Gwen’s white shirt, Gwen’s hand low on Harri’s back. Gwen’s eyes were closed and the look on her face, serene and blissful, sent a fright through Clem.”
― Blasted Things
― Blasted Things
“The iris of his good eye was a curious pale grey, almost silver; the edges were darker, as if tarnished like a coin, and the artist made a brave attempt to paint the other eye to match. The eyebrow had been finely painted, with the most miniature of brushes, the most delicate of strokes, but it was a shade too yellow. The blank eye gazed beyond her.”
― Blasted Things
― Blasted Things
“She hurries out of the hammering rain into the puddled shelter of St Pancras. As arranged, he's waiting outside WH Smith, and her heart jerks like a bad dog on a lead.”
― A Particular Man
― A Particular Man
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“Iris kissing the lips of a dying boy. Imagine! So very kind, so killingly funny! Cross-eyed Iris in her specs, whatever did the poor boy think?”
― Blasted Things
― Blasted Things
“Clem ground out her cigarette and immediately wished she hadn’t. It had felt like something live she could hold onto”
― Blasted Things
― Blasted Things
