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Book Review: Character-driven mystery that quietly takes hold of the reader
Don’t let the length of Lydia Sandgren’s Collected Works put you off. By the time you come to the end, you’ll be wishing for more
A debut novel over 700 pages in length is not entirely unheard of. It is unusual enough, however, that when one comes across your desk you can’t help but eye it with curiosity. There are no set rules, but rarely do stories of this length make it through publishing houses without a recognisable author attached to them.
While Lydia Sandgren wasn’t a household name beforehand, Collected Works has become a phenomenon in her native Sweden. ...
