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queencleo's review
2.0
I'm not sure how to review this book, it's a strange one. It doesn't really fit in a genre. Literary fiction?
Based in a fictional version of my home, Bowness in the Yarra Valley, there is a Mechanics Institute and a restored observatory (Mt Burnett is that you?).
Featuring a couple of reprehensible characters, one whom is irredeemable, it's about an election campaign and about parenting while separating and rural life and balancing working life with motherhood - or sacrificing your career for others.
Featuring a fairly surreal accident and outcome, I am lost as to whether I enjoyed this or not.
Based in a fictional version of my home, Bowness in the Yarra Valley, there is a Mechanics Institute and a restored observatory (Mt Burnett is that you?).
Featuring a couple of reprehensible characters, one whom is irredeemable, it's about an election campaign and about parenting while separating and rural life and balancing working life with motherhood - or sacrificing your career for others.
Featuring a fairly surreal accident and outcome, I am lost as to whether I enjoyed this or not.
charf47's review
3.0
The Map of Night is a well written novel which talks about the repercussions of all-consuming ambition. I had a general sense of claustrophobia, while reading this book, and found one major plot-line difficult to believe. Perhaps this level of self-interest really does exist? Thank you to Better Reading, the author and publisher for the ARC.
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