The Given World

By Amy LiptrotMay 26, 2026

Melissa Harrison’s latest novel ‘The Given World’ is May Book of the Month. Amy Liptrot reviews — finding in the book’s generous worldview, rich language and dreamlike qualities an ‘Under Milk Wood’ for the twenty-first century. ‘What use, after all, is the past?’ asks one of the characters in the wonderful, multiperspectival portrait of a […]

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