Books by Annalena McAfee and Complete Book Reviews

Kirsty Knows Best
Kirsty Knows Best
Annalena McAfee, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $8.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-89478-2
Kirsty's inveterate daydreaming affords her respite from the circumstances of her daily life: a shrill-voiced mother with a menial job, an unemployed father and the merciless taunts of the class bully Nora. Kirsty imagines herself a princess, her...
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Hame
Hame
Annalena McAfee. Knopf, $28.95 (592p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3172-4
McAfee’s long novel about a small island is at once fascinating and frustrating. It centers on Grigor McWatt, a fictional Scots nationalist bard who arrives on the (also fictional) Hebridean island of Fascaray in 1942, declares it his soul’s true...
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Nightshade
Nightshade
Annalena McAfee. Knopf, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-65829-0
McAfee (Hame) centers her caustically entertaining latest on Eve, a self-aggrandizing middle-aged antiheroine obsessed with her thwarted artistic vision. Eve’s story begins at the garden of her former home and unfolds on her peripatetic journey...
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