Books by Louise Welsh
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review 1: It was great and refreshing to read about a queer family in a book that doesn't obscure queer issues, but at the same time isn't only about queerness. The small-scale, subtle thriller plot had lots of potential, and it could have been a well-aimed slap in the face to the burgeois...
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review 1: A plague ("the sweats") has struck in many large centers around the world. Stevie is able to recover from a bout of the illness (is she immune?) and sets out to find out why her lover was murdered in his apartment. Futuristic, fast-paced, very compelling, but extremely grim. T...
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review 1: A good novel for me is one that makes me think about it long after I've finished it. I keep coming back to the characters in The Girl on the Stairs by Louise Welsh. Was Jane paranoid and deceitful? Did her difficult childhood and current isolation make it reasonable for her to ac...
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review 1: This was billed as a mystery, but I found this novel written as a literary tale and the real mystery was where is the mystery element of this story? At the very end there was a mysterious death and a skeleton, but the book certainly didn't meet my criteria for a well written myst...