Did we love Brotherless Night? Tilly and Ros on the Women's Prize and Carol Shields Prize winner 

Really enjoyed reading and discussing this with you.

Thanks! I enjoyed your discussion. I really liked this novel. I was very moved by the mothers group fighting to get their sons back from the army. The protest scene brought me to tears. As a mother, I just couldn’t imagine watching my children going to war. I am so grateful I’ve never had to face this.

Thank you for this discussion of Brotherless Night. Very thoughtful. I've been hesitant to read this one.

Thank you for an interesting discussion. I don’t usually read books about war. But this one seems interesting because of the memoir aspect and because it’s told in the voice of a woman. Aloha.

I really enjoyed this discussion! I have been waffling about whether or not I wanted to read this. I think I will read it, but I need to be mentally and emotionally prepared first!

I really liked the book. I admit that I cried several times. It was very effective.

I have neither read Brotherless Night nor The Seven Deaths but want to read both, so maybe this summer I will find the time. Loved your discussion. ❤

I was so moved by this book. It's a story I'm still thinking about.

What's with the newest unsolicited warm-up, coincident with Duchess Kate's announcement? Did one of my 81M allies/publicists finally enlighten them?

I thought this suffered from being a collection of writings, written over years, and then bought together as a novel, it felt very fragmented to me. I don't think she should have written it as a novel because the true stories she has based it on are probably more interesting, and I think you could tell when the characters were based on real people because they were properly realised like the teacher, whereas generally the others were not. As you say it felt like reporting, and i think it works as as a report of how real people get caught in the middle of a civil war but as a novel it was a bit of a mess. As always, love your discussion of the book.

I respected what the author did in this book, but I felt the writing was somehow cold, clinical