This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. The other four books on her list are Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea, which “highlights the essential requirement of empathy in navigating our way through our personal lives and amidst the culture wars that are driving …
Looking like the proverbial genial uncle, Bill Kirkman would stride smilingly through the halls of a Cambridge college, his tweed jacket giving off an air of informality that belied the seriousness of the issues he was probably contending with in his head: whether it had to do with issues of an embattled local council, the college bursar missing in action …
