Ahdaf Soueif

Advantages: Easy to read, easy to pick up and put down
Disadvantages: Some of the stories overlap with another novel by the same author

...Sandpiper is a collection of seven short stories by Ahdaf Soueif, who also wrote 'The Map of Love' and 'In the Eye of the Sun'. If you haven't yet read any of her work, I would recommend starting with this one, purely because I'd read 'The Map of Love' and 'In the Eye of the Sun' before I'd read this book, and it did leave me feeling a little cheated and disappointed, mainly because I'd loved the other two novels so much and hadn't felt so gripped with this one. The protaganist in each story is a woman, but two of the short stories focus on the same protaganist, Asya. These two stories are told both in the first person, and, while I loved 'In the Eye of the Sun' and never wanted it to end, I was disappointed to find Asya, who is the main character in 'In the Eye of the Sun', narrating two episodes of her life in two short stories here... Read review

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