#bookrecommendation Stephanie Bishop's brilliant new novel The Anniversary. Riveting from the first page. A rare thing to be torn between wanting to savour every word – and racing to the end.
Successful novelist JB Blackwood and her film aficionado husband take a cruise to Japan on their anniversary - but only one comes back.
Crimes of many kinds pulse through The Anniversary. A profound and enthralling meditation on the hierarchies within partnerships, the beauty and brutality of a creative life, the collision with other people's expectations, the slippery path through the world of publishing, the clarity of the everyday co-existing with luminous excursions into the imagination, loss and belonging.
Highly recommended.
Review from Readings Bookshop: https://www.readings.com.au/reviews/the-anniversary-by-stephanie-bishop

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