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The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold - Review

13 October 2008 By Adam 0 In Fiction

The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
Desperate to escape the ‘crying, barking and biting’ of her mentally ill octogenarian mother, Helen Knightly fulfils a lifelong dream: she murders her. Alice Sebold’s follow-up to The Lovely Bones depicts a lonely, suburban divorcee as she wrestles with five decades of painful memories and the 24-hour aftermath [...]

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