What a riveting read this well-researched, well-written book is – and, by the way, let me give you its full title, before we go any further: “If – The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years.” Mr. Benfey shines a light on the years that Rudyard Kipling and his young family …
Cards on table time. I am absolutely not a fan of Melania Trump, with her permanent scowl and penchant for issuing the very occasional terse and trite comment, but since I am not an American, so not tax-funding her lifestyle, I can’t really complain. About her apparent lack of purpose. …
Before I even start writing the review – disclosure time. I am in book club in Delhi with the author’s wife, Theo. So I am not totally impartial, especially since we were all privy to some of the labour pains involved in the final stages of this fascinating book. I …
There are books that move you, there are books that make you cry, and then there is “Every Last One”. This book made the reviewer sob and cry more than any other book ever read. Ever. Great sobs of anguish and heart-wrenching emotion. It is a novel to be cherished, …
