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This is a sweet and gentle book about teenagers whose small world ballasts them against the cruelties of the big one.
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Arjun Basu's novel is is a love song to Montreal in all of its gritty complexity and contradictions.
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Lambert's gaze is oceanic, homing in on individuals and zooming out to the systems within which they operate.
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Susan Doherty's latest novel is an honourable attempt to give voice to an issue which is all too often silenced.
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