This Week's Acquisitions
- John Harwood, The Seance (Mariner, 2009). Bereft woman attempts to see dead people. (Lift Bridge)
- Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven (Ecco, 2009). Long-range aftereffects of a horrific murder. (BOMC)
- Kate O'Brien, The Ante-Room (Virago, 2006). Reprint of O'Brien's 1934 historical novel about death, love, and lust in an upper-class Irish family. (eBay)
- Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (Virago, 1982). Reprint of West's novel about a soldier's homecoming after WWI. (eBay)