Books by David Park
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English
review 1: Not magical, nor startling but impressive for the power behind gentle words and depictions. Three nondescript couples, mother-daughter, father-son, husband-wife, leave Belfast for a weekend in Amsterdam. Each couple is working its way through a challenging time of life, each is t...
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English
review 1: Although billed as a novel about poets' wives, the book is in three distinct parts. The first part tells the story of William Blake's wife, Catherine; the second part that of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's wife, Nadezhda; the third part that of fictional Irish poet Don and his wi...
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English
review 1: I really liked this book! The story follows three pairings (mother & daughter, father & son, husband & wife) on a weekend trip to Amsterdam, weaving in their background stories along the way, and I liked and engaged with each of the pairings. I really liked both the wider descr...