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17 Alma Road

Ian Gouge

Genre:

Literary Fiction


Genre: Literary Fiction

Publisher: Coverstory Books

Date Published: 2024

Book Length: 226

Format: E book supplied to me by Love Books Tours in return for an honest review

Star Rating; 4**** I liked it a lot and recommend


About Book: A house filled with history and secrets is more than mere bricks and mortar; not only a mirror on the past, it can also be a window to the future.


My Thoughts: 17 Alma Road by Ian Gouge is a contemporary fiction book. It starts of in a confusing was, so much so that I had to re-read the first couple of pages and go back to the synopsis to try to understand what I was reading. Them the book settled down and came into its own mixing history with the current period, unravelling secrets making me feel that the house had its own personality at times. But this was a home and if like me you have lived in a house for a very long time you will know what I mean. The  book does suffer from some pacing issues at times, but Gouge brings the book to a satisfactory conclusion with a surprise at the end.

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