THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY recommended by UK Shelf Improvement
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"I was going to try and save The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas for as long as possible but I just can't wait any longer. I adore this novel - it is a beautiful, sprawling, completely engrossing read. Joan finds fame early on in life with two hugely successful short story collections and just as she's about to write her first novel, life intervenes. She becomes many things throughout her life - wife and mother amongst them - but keeps trying to get back to what seems her core self, the writer. It's a novel that transforms - there's a great big twist of shock and betrayal in the middle, then journeys on to the final third (literally for Joan, who finds herself in a new and unfamiliar country) - reading the book is like living someone else's life. Throughout it are extracts of Joan's writing which felt so authentic it was genuinely disappointing to put the book down and remember I couldn't read the rest of her stories because they don't exist! It was Wolas' debut novel (which is completely outrageous - it is so accomplished and Joan's life as a writer is so fully formed) and it has stayed with me since I first read it in a way that few books do. Just writing about it makes me want to read it again."
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"I was going to try and save The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas for as long as possible but I just can't wait any longer. I adore this novel - it is a beautiful, sprawling, completely engrossing read. Joan finds fame early on in life with two hugely successful short story collections and just as she's about to write her first novel, life intervenes. She becomes many things throughout her life - wife and mother amongst them - but keeps trying to get back to what seems her core self, the writer. It's a novel that transforms - there's a great big twist of shock and betrayal in the middle, then journeys on to the final third (literally for Joan, who finds herself in a new and unfamiliar country) - reading the book is like living someone else's life. Throughout it are extracts of Joan's writing which felt so authentic it was genuinely disappointing to put the book down and remember I couldn't read the rest of her stories because they don't exist! It was Wolas' debut novel (which is completely outrageous - it is so accomplished and Joan's life as a writer is so fully formed) and it has stayed with me since I first read it in a way that few books do. Just writing about it makes me want to read it again."
You can subscribe at:
tinyletter.com/shelf-improvement
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