A review by felicity
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

The fact that this book shouldn't work but somehow it does, the fact that I couldn't put it down, for one whole week I read page after page after page, the fact that in this time of global pandemics and fear and uncertainty this is a novel that speaks to so many people in so many ways, the fact that we seem to learn so many things about our narrator's life and family and situation and feel like she's our best friend, our neighbour, us even but we never learn her name, the fact that I don't know if life can ever or will ever be the same again, the fact that as soon as I'd finished this book I wanted to pick it up and start it all over again.