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Reviewed By... Marie Leahy

This is a book runners and endurance athletes will appreciate for the detail and process Murakami chronicles in his preparations for marathons and ultra-distances. Runners who have gone the distance will note how this extraordinary writer runs very ordinary times, and is very much an everyman while he's pounding the pavement. This lovely memoir also provides insight into the author's process as a writer, how h... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Liz Barnum

This is such a good book! From the very first page to the very last, it never failed to satisfy! The writing is warm and descriptive, the story a great family saga and the characters deep and complex. This is a debut novel for the author and he is a master storyteller.

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Reviewed By... Heather Bellanca

This book kept me rapt till the bittersweet end. A 100-year old psychiatric hospital patient's life is gradually uncovered by her fascinated caregiver - reaching back to a time when acceptable women's behavior was closely proscribed. Taking the reader from the conflict years in Ireland to today, it is full of unexpected revelations, betrayals, allegiances and lost loves. A moving, stick-to-your ribs kind... read more>>>