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The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine
Belfast, many voices, three families and one night that will not stay quiet. A debut everyone argued about.
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Picked to split the room and refill the glasses.
Belfast, many voices, three families and one night that will not stay quiet. A debut everyone argued about.
A mother chooses her baby son a name. Three names, three whole lives. A genius idea, beautifully done.
One Irish family, four points of view, everything quietly falling apart. Funny until it is not.
Theatre kids in the 1980s, first love, and a drama teacher who runs the class like a cult. Argue about it afterwards.
David Copperfield reborn in Appalachia, in the middle of the opioid crisis. Ferocious, big-hearted, a real voice.
A 1960s chemist ends up hosting a cookery show and teaching a nation to think. Furious, funny, wonderful.
One man, from a Hungarian flat to London money, told in the sparest prose going. Won the Booker for a reason.