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The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey

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thetwirlonthetrain's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

coreebrownswan's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

That was a good surprise. We follow several women - Dolores, her daughter Nell, and Martina who has become Nell's mentor in the religious group she joins as a teenager. We follow them through different times but the chapters are linked by the characters relationships and by the theme of women's right to bodily autonomy and abortion, as well as religion and its place in Ireland. I liked the characters, I found that even if their stories were alien to me, Niamh Mulvey has made them people I can understand and relate to, somehow, and I really liked that. It was well written and although the story lost a bit of it's spark after the "big reveal" (which was not exactly a reveal, it was there but not explicitly stated by the character), I really enjoyed this novel.

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