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Doubles and reflections abound in this subtle exploration of the stories we tell about sickness, centring on a mother and daughter who travel to Italy in search of healing

With her fifth book, Kassab leans even further into her fragmented, polyphonic style, exploding the possibilities of what the novel can be and do

In her third book, the author of Love and Virtue slyly subverts the trauma plot to take aim at our impulse to reduce the messiness of life to a neat narrative

In December 1817, the Romantic poet John Keats sent a letter to his brothers George and Thomas, in which he celebrated a quality in Shakespeare’s work he termed “negative capability”. He defined this as “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after…