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Circle of Wonders by Kathryn Heyman review – solace and healing in an acid-etched portrait of a dysfunctional family

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Circle of Wonders by Kathryn Heyman review – solace and healing in an acid-etched portrait of a dysfunctional family
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Heyman’s story about women struggling to put aside their hurts and do right by one another is all about rage, vulnerability, forgiveness and a bit of woo-wooGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailRoni, the woman at the centre of Kathryn Heyman’s new novel, Circle of Wonders, is dying. Many of us will have encountered a Roni in our time: charismatic, unreliable, casually selfish; a free spirit who is sometimes, maddeningly, astonishing. She has been the beating heart of every party, but this

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