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Davies, who is also the author of a story collection and a book of poems, unspools her novel in short chapters featuring searing, forensically precise sentences.
The chapters featuring Termite, as well as those narrated by Lark and Lark's aunt, Nonie, take place nine years later in the small West Virginia town of Winfield.
But although at times I felt like throwing the book at the wall, there were so many pages of beautiful writing, especially the chapters featuring her son, that by the end I came to the conclusion that if Jane Shilling feels that literature is short on fiftysomething heroines, then the best thing she can do is supply us with one.
Fun additions include a bedroom door sign with "moor bound" on one side and "more peace" on the other, and a copy of Susan Bell's 2014 novel A Similar Devotion, which is set in these parts: chapters featuring Blanchland are marked.
It is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, but something in between: a series of chapters featuring interlocking characters at different points in their lives, whose individual voices combine to a create a symphonic work that uses its interconnected form to explore ideas about human interconnectedness.
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The chapters feature an ingredient apiece, presented in alphabetical order, from apples to walnuts.
But the six chapters feature different writers and artists, which results in episodes that contrast in tone and spin off into different narratives.
Each of these chapters feature approximately 50 works, ranging from sub-dermal skin designs to a portrait of Condoleezza Rice constructed from, you guessed it, rice.
The Nano does not have a fast forward or a rewind, so you'll need to rely on its chapters feature to navigate forward or backward.
An early Oxford-set chapter featuring a library meet-cute between an obsessive-compulsive professor and a woman who insists on sitting at "his" desk is pure Richard Curtis.
Ishiguro made a point to read a chapter featuring pixies, noting: "[I figured I would] come straight out and be proud of their presence and not apologise" – an allusion to some accusations that The Buried Giant is a genre novel.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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