Last month's read for the Bimble Books book group, Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban, was a great book.
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I'm not sure how he did it. So much of the book is definitely sad, in that lonely middle aged way, and yet the lives in it come across as content and positive. A cross between Muriel Spark's Girls of Slender Means and Ronan Hession's Leonard and Hungry Paul.
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