The Little Clothes
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Audrey Mendes is a clever lawyer but has never made partner. Her weeks are filled with long hours in the office, visits to her ageing parents, trivia nights at the local and evenings at home with her pet rabbit, Joni. When Audrey tries to buy wine at the pub she is ignored and walks out without paying. One thing leads to another, and soon she starts rebelling in small and creative ways against a world in which she is unseen – until a painful reminder from her childhood pushes her into a reckoning. All the while there’s a potential romance and an eccentric new neighbour to deal with. And why does Audrey buy extravagant baby clothes when she doesn’t have a child? Wry, humorous and provocative, this is an affectionate novel about sorting out the past, grabbing onto life and claiming your place in it.
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I enjoyed the writing style of this book, it was readable and fairly well-paced and definitely held my interest. I initially found the number of different characters mentioned quickly a little hard to keep track of, but that settled as I got further into the book. I did find that the title story (the little clothes) seemed fairly disconnected from the rest of the book and could have been ingrained in the main story and the build up a little better.
This book also very badly needs some trigger warnings, particularly for CSA, because that was not in the blurb and I was not at all expecting to be reading it.
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the ARC
