Little Fires Everywhere

Written By Linda Malek
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Little Fires Everywhere by @pronounced_ing
Reviewed by Linda
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This book was just insane - I devoured it in almost one sitting and it was everything I expected from a domestic fiction novel and more. ⁣
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Sitting in that grey area, interchanging between mystery and reality, I invested in every single character and plot twist!⁣
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Celeste Ng weaves an intricate family web so heavy and rich with unspoken family secrets and the complication that is life, but pays the most attention to the mother-daughter relationship. ⁣
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Mia Warren and her daughter, Pearl, live a nomadic lifestyle until they arrive at Shaker Heights: a highly organised and “progressive” society in the mid-west, according to one of its most loyal residents: Mrs. Richardson. ⁣
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The Warrens and Richardsons couldn’t be worlds apart and the interaction between the two families gives rise to multiple themes and scenarios which Ng pulls you into. Get ready for the ending - you won’t see it coming.⁣

Linda Malek

I've always had the urge to set up a forum and voice my thoughts after each read, but never had the confidence to do so alone. 18 months ago, I got my fellow book-loving friends involved and formed The Candid Book Club! Aside from having an exponentially growing to-read pile and deteriorating shortsightedness, we've been lucky to have been invited to publisher events and have attended several talks with our favourite authors (Thank you and long may they continue!) To take a break from the pressures of PhD Chemistry, Jess and I exchanged books all the time and in my youth, I was that kid with the first editions of Harry Potter having already read Gulliver’s travels and some Charles Dickens. At work, my desk is a library and luckily for me I sit next to another bookworm Jack who entertains all the photo-taking. I'm suffering from a chronic case of wanderlust (age-related crisis) so books which are set as far away from home as possible tend to float my boat: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Asia...you name it. But if it's got anything to do with Egypt then I'm all over it. So you get the drift...I read all the time, everywhere (on the tube mostly), everyday, a book a week, and very quickly I'm onto the next! And then sometimes there is a book that stops me in my tracks, makes me want to swallow the pages whole, and have it next to me at all times, with some sentences staying with me forever: Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts, anything by Khaled Hosseini, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo (absolute gem of a woman), A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shuklaand and anything by Naguib Mahfouz.

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