The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews '1984' by George Orwell
This month's review is written by guest writer Cat Dillon. Thank you so much for your time and your words. 1984 was one of the classics...
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Cat Carroll
- May 12, 2020
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'Middle England' by Jonathan Coe
Hello knackered parents! We are week eight of lockdown and our worlds have shrunk considerably. I had a sudden urge for a soya hot...
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Cat Carroll
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens
This month will be the first book club where we do not meet in person. The world has changed. We seem to find ourselves living in a...
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Cat Carroll
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents’ Book Club reviews ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
February has come to a close and the rain has fallen incessantly for what has seemed an eternity. However, as I write this, looking out...
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Cat Carroll
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'Once Upon a River' by Diane Setterfield.
Hello everybody. It is January and I am cold and fed up with the rain and the lack of sun. January is officially the most depressing...
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Cat Carroll
- Dec 18, 2019
- 2 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'Rivers of London' by Ben Aaronovitch
Happy Christmas everybody! This will be the last review before we all eat our body weight in chocolate and experience a frenzied...
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Cat Carroll
- Nov 12, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'The Testaments' by Margaret Atwood
Following on from last month, this month’s book is ‘The Testaments’, which is the much -awaited sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. It seeks...
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Cat Carroll
- Oct 15, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood.
Hello all. Our book this month has been ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood. A dystopian novel, which is set in the near future, in...
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Cat Carroll
- Sep 11, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'The Wild Other' by Clover Stroud.
Hello tired parents, we have made it through the summer holidays! I’ve been trying to assess whether I have enjoyed the last six weeks. I...
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Cat Carroll
- Jul 24, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'The Lido' by Libby Page.
It’s the start of the summer holidays and the thought of six long weeks stretching ahead like a deserted road, surrounded by desert,...
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Cat Carroll
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'My Name is Leon' by Kit De Wall
Hello all. I am writing this review from my sick bed, as a weekend of hot tubs and gin has given me a throat and ear infection. I...
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Cat Carroll
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'We Should All Be Feminists' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
16 books! Our 16th book is not really a book, but a piece of literary non-fiction in the form of an essay. It is very short and I am...
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Cat Carroll
- Apr 30, 2019
- 4 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Happy Easter! Is it too late to say that? Time is flying by and we have now read our 14th book! Well done to everyone for struggling...
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Cat Carroll
- Mar 27, 2019
- 2 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean Pendziwol.
Hello everyone, I hope March is treating you well. It is March madness at my house, with tantrums and volatile reactions to the wrong...
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Cat Carroll
- Feb 26, 2019
- 2 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama.
I want to congratulate all the tired mums and dads out there who are battling work and family life and a brutal lack of sleep. You are...
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Cat Carroll
- Jan 22, 2019
- 3 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
Hello and Happy New Year! Christmas went by in a blur of chocolate and a predictable lack of sleep. The book club has almost been going...
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Cat Carroll
- Dec 11, 2018
- 2 min
The Knackered Parent's Book Club reviews 'Tin Man' by Sarah Winman
I am writing this review from my kitchen table, surrounded by amazon boxes that my husband and I frantically ordered when the pressure of...
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Cat Carroll
- Nov 7, 2018
- 1 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald
This month we went all cultural with the 1920's classic The Great Gatsby. It depicts the overindulgence and materialism of the 'jazz...
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Cat Carroll
- Oct 9, 2018
- 2 min
The Knackered Parents' Book Club reviews 'Eye Can Write' by Jonathan Bryan.
Before children I was never really a worrier. The glass was nearly always half full and I didn't constantly think about worse case...
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Cat Carroll
- Sep 7, 2018
- 3 min
To the man who made me cry today.
I want to start this by saying I believe in people. I try my hardest not to judge others, as we don't know what's going on in each...
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