Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore with her favourite books of 2019: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman (Text Publishing) and Childhood by Tove Ditlevesen (Penguin).
Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport is a 1000-paged stream of consciousness of an Ohio mother as she bakes pies. Is it worth it? Yes!
Also, an incredible memoir trilogy by Danish author Tove Ditlevsen, republished as a Penguin Classic forty years after publication.
