Books Editor jasonfsteger looks at new novels from acclaimed authors Jennifer Egan and Douglas Stuart, plus memoirs by Joe Hockey, Hannah Gadsby and Martha Wainwright books whattoread
is an across-the-sectarian-divide story of queer first love that challenges the testosterone-driven violent culture the two Glaswegian protagonists come from. Of course, there are some similarities with the first book, not least in another alcoholic mother. It’s about masculinity, family, and love.
The singer-songwriter spent seven years writing this memoir, which she has described not as a rock biography, but the story of a woman who happens to be an artist living a creative life in the middle of a modern family – a rather talented family – that involves the things we’re all familiar with: children, parents, births, deaths and more. “Music,” she writes, “has always been the way I supported myself, except for a stretch of time when I was seventeen.
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