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Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley review – in pursuit of false memories (opens in new tab)

From the Booker-shortlisted author, a tantalisingly unreliable account of childhood, history and mental uncertaintyThe historian and novelist Fiona Mozley acknowledged in that the city of York had a major influence on both her careers. Childhood and adolescence in a place such as York, full of time and times, can generate conflict between “the desire to live in the past and the need to extract oneself from it”. Awake Awake, a follow-up to her previous novels, 2017’s Booker-shortlisted , engag...

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