Our Lady of Everything

I liked that it was based in Nottingham as I used to live there and recognised all the places but.... soz there is a but . .. I gave up on it before the end. Why? There were too many characters to keep track of for bedtime reading and the narrative kept switching between them. As the book went on, I......more

Having enjoyed Finlay's eariler novel, Arriviste, I was looking forward to reading more of her work. I was not disappointed by Our Lady of Everything. It is easy to relate to these characters casting around for something to believe in, in what on the one hand is a banal and repetative ordinarness an......more

A subtle brilliant debut, that really engages with the complexities of Iraq and how we did, or did not, experience it in the UK. I loved this book and it also made me think a lot about the times we're living through today.......more

Timely and engaging.  A work that allows us both to look back, with clearer eyes, on the Iraq War, and to re-examine how events from the last decade have informed our current, Brexit madness.......more

I…am not sure what to say about Susan Finlay’s novel, Our Lady of Everything. On the one hand, it has a very interesting premise, characters I liked, and some genuinely moving moments. On the other, the book never really gelled. Whatever it was trying to tell me remained so diffuse that I couldn’t p......more