Books of the year: Four brilliant page-turners you’ll want to give to friends

Sue Leonard selects her best books of the year, featuring inter-generational guilt, a harrowing depiction of coercive control, and no shortage of wonderful prose
Books of the year: Four brilliant page-turners you’ll want to give to friends

With three non-fiction books under her belt, including the Pulitzer shortlisted Red Comet, on the life of Sylvia Plath, it’s clear that Heather Clarke is a writer to reckon with. Picture: Beowulf Sheehan

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The Scrapbook by Heather Clark (Jonathan Cape, €17.99)

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