For a first book, Lilla's Feast is a pretty exceptional achievement. Osborne said that she originally intended the story of her great-grandmother to be the basis for a novel, but that it was so exceptional that she felt it couldn't be written any other way. The result is a chatty, readable story ...
SHE has been to church with the other servants and now she’s sitting a foot away from Michael on a wet wooden park bench. They are looking at muddied grass that stretches for yards and yards, as far as the lake. In front pass families, couples and even the odd person alone, all bundled up to thei...
When it appears that every other avenue is closed to us. And when the consequences of doing nothing, of letting Fate push us along the seemingly downhill path she has mapped out, look worse than any possible retribution for the transgression itself.Back then, with Ernie heading toward her twin’s ...
She had made as many enemies as friends in Kenya. Stories of the wild parties at Slains were hotly debated—though the debates often genteelly avoided the racier details. Those outside Idina and Joss’s charmed circle of invitees were split. Some, especially those who had been received more convent...