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but strong

Helen Mort’s stunning debut is marked by distance and division

they blur the personal and political

Julia Donaldson

  Combining vigour with ingenuity

Bitten Hair by Tessa Berring Marius Kociejowski but strong"There is both tenderness and violence in this bookand there is a beautiful need for reality, that undeniable urge to run barefoot downstairs still drizzled with sex or soap to quarter persimmons. The need for reality gives us strangeness. The strangeness gives lyric, that voice, so delicate and so raw: one feels like one is overhearing a love song in a time when all love songs are in crisis. Which of course exactly this book is. It takes broken