Sebastian Barry 2008
- What it is
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Told in letters, diaries or messages · it leaves you shaken
- Genre
- Literary Historical fiction
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
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A farewell that moves you · tender and sad at once
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Only closed setting
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Like yours: closed setting · it leaves you thinking
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Grouped with yours in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
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In common with yours: closed setting · odd and endearing
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Readers put them together in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
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In common with yours: closed setting · melancholic and unhurried
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In common with yours: closed setting · nothing is quite what it seems
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Readers put them together in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
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Grouped with yours in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
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Like yours: closed setting · properly strange
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Only letters and diaries
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In common with yours: letters and diaries · tender and sad at once
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In common with yours: unreliable narrator · comforting, like coming home
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In common with yours: unreliable narrator · comforting, like coming home
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It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
The Thirteenth Tale
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It hurts, and then it heals · it leaves you thinking
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In common with yours: unreliable narrator · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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It leaves you shaken · it tells it with no filter
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