Funny how sometimes you can't write straight away about books that have had a deep impression on you - you need time to get to grips with them in a less emotional way. That's the experience that novelist
Lisa Glass says she has sometimes, but that those are the books that turn out to be her favourites. I'm thrilled that she counts
The Birth Machine as one of those books, and that it now appears, with a simply lovely review, among her four Books of the Year (so far) on
Vulpes Libris.
She refers to its 'gorgeous layers, its portrayal of wild childhood, and ... the bold
questions that it dares to ask about the way that people allow
themselves to be subsumed by received opinion' and says that 'just like Elizabeth Baines’s other recent novel
Too Many Magpies, The Birth Machine leaves an indelible mark on its reader.'
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