Sentence examples for a compelling novel from inspiring English sources

This is a compelling novel about the crushing restrictions that class and gender can impose, the burden  of parental expectation, and the stigma attached to mental illness.

Cleverly manipulating our need to impose narrative on events, she creates a compelling novel that ably dodges the conventions she's sending up.

Maybe get a head start on uni work or, if you don't want to be "that guy" lose yourself in a compelling novel.

Margaret Atwood made a brave stab at it in 1976 when she published Lady Oracle, a compelling novel about a romance writer who finds herself trapped in her own gothic adventure.

Dianne Watterton, Greasby, Wirral Red Lotus by Pai Kit Fai (Sphere) is a compelling novel about the challenging lives of three generations of one family of Chinese/mixed-race women in China.

Still, if I'm simultaneously honing my real-world mind-reading abilities while enjoying a compelling novel, who am I to complain?

Much as the reader comes to care about Mr. Turow's characters, one ends up wishing that these people had been involved in a more compelling legal case -- and a more compelling novel.

Homecoming by Susie Steiner (Faber) is a quiet compelling novel that focuses on the ordinary losses of life and takes the reader on a realistic journey into the emotional lives of the key characters.

Richard Flanagan, a big hitter from Down Under, renews this connection with The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto), a dark, compelling novel about the Australian experience of the Burma railway.

Irish-British writer Eimear McBride has won the inaugural £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for her "boldly original and utterly compelling" novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which was originally rejected by publishers for being too experimental.

Trumpet (Macmillan), a novel about a jazz man who is actually a woman, was reissued this year: a rich, taut and compelling novel by a fine writer.