Everyone Is Still Alive: Debut novel deftly captures the highs and lows of family life
FICTION
Everyone Is Still Alive
By Cathy Rentzenbrink
Phoenix, €19.60
Cornwall resident Cathy Rentzenbrink is a former bookseller and an acclaimed non-fiction writer, whose three well-received books include a memoir about the death of her brother, a treatise on the nature of grief and a love letter to the act of reading itself. Her remarkably astute first novel, Everyone Is Still Alive, concerns a number of young families from the same middle-class London street.
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