The Great Stink
by Clare Clark
Penguin, £12.99, pp. 358, ISBN 0670915300
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
by Esi Edugyan
Virago, £10.99, pp. 278, ISBN 1844081060
The Icarus Girl
by Helen Oyeyemi
Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 320, ISBN 0747575487
With an aversion to ghost stories I was surprised to find myself greatly moved by Strangers.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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