Hey Bookends! We are back this week with another instalment in our 'Top of your TBR' series and this time we are joined by the warm, funny and generous Cherie Jones- who is the phenomenal writer of the Women's Prize shortlisted novel 'How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House' and she's bringing you an incredible list of recommendations!
In this episode, we chat through her four chosen book titles to add to your TBR piles, her experiences as a debut author, the impact of Carribean folklore, who she draws inspiration from and so much more, you are in for a treat!

Cherie's Top of your TBR picks:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd-Banwo
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris: Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A.Chancy

Other books & authors mentioned:
Happening by Annie Ernaux
The Hills Were Joyful Together by Roger Mais
Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare
The Wine of Astonishment by Earl Lovelace
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Summer Lightening and other stories by Olive Senior
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Banana Bottom by Claude McKay
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs

To buy Cherie's book: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/how-the-one-armed-sister-sweeps-her-house/9781472268792

Follow Cherie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheriejoneswrites/?hl=en

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