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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2006
Silver Dagger Award winner Joss (Half Broken Things ) has been compared to crime writer Ruth Rendell, and, like Rendell, she excels at painting characters with psychological flaws. Set in the summer of 1960, her latest book revolves around a dysfunctional rural English family with a chronically depressed mother, Flossie (or Fleur, as she pretentiously prefers), who never quite succeeded as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More