February 24, 2023
What? Who?Ā I was holding a book and asking myself these questions.Ā WhatĀ did I just read?Ā WhoĀ wrote this⦠this parcel of nerves, energy, perception, poetry, philosophy tied with some witty barbed wire? The page was lit. It was also familiar: this was theĀ coup de foudreĀ that lovers feel.Ā Reader, that blow isnāt restricted to people. I had recently felt it with the Italian Elena Ferrante and, more recently still, the French Annie Ernaux. And here it is again with the Australian Beth Spe...