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The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three

Love, later in life

Not the first time. Often the truer one.


Book 1

Long Island

Colm Tóibín

READ IT

Eilis Lacey, twenty years after Brooklyn, back in Ireland with a marriage cracking. Quiet and merciless. Read it.

Book 2

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

READ IT

A mother tells her grown daughters, over a lockdown cherry harvest, about the man she loved before them. Serene and deep. Read it.

Book 3

The Wedding People

Alison Espach

FOR SOME

A woman arrives alone at a hotel taken over by someone else's wedding. Funnier and sadder than it sounds. A good week's read.

Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.

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