The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo

The Iron Age by Arja KajermoThe Iron Age is part coming of age novel, and part fairy tale told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of post war Finland. On her family's austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war. The

They met in April

Being a third generation lightkeeper and having grown up at these lighthouses

As long as people like Varoufakis are around

Woven into a an engrossing saga of cruelty

all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the blood

We talk about the different political ideologies that different governments have

she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago

Ithaca conjures up a world in which women

Or will she find herself sacrificed for her lover's ambition

They tell the story of how

Sublime - Donal Ryan

Wincingly humane