Revenge Sharon Morris May Until the unthinkable happens

Until the unthinkable happens

From Zadie Smith

often hilarious and often heartbreaking

the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble

Revenge Sharon Morris May Until the unthinkable happensA woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly