Ian Sansom

A choice of first novels | 3 August 2017

Promising first novels from Sally Rooney, Olivia Sudjic and Tor Udall are set in Dublin, New York and London respectively

issue 05 August 2017

  • Conversations with Friends

    Sally Rooney

    Faber, pp. 336

  • Sympathy

    Olivia Sudjic

    One, pp. 416

  • A Thousand Paper Birds

    Tor Udall

    Bloomsbury Circus, pp. 336

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