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Best books of 2016 – part two

Newspaper: The Guardian
Date: Nov 28 2016
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/27/best-books-of-2016-part-two

Maggie O'Farrell

Frantumaglia (Europa Editions) is an absorbing, tantalising journey into the private world of Elena Ferrante. I was halfway through it when the unconscionable, unforgivable exposure of her identity occurred (and may that man, Claudio Gatti, never know peace again).

Louise Doughty

For Christmas, I would like two things: Elena Ferrante’s Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey (Europa Editions) and for the worm who publicised her real identity in newspapers around the world to find his turkey as dry, flavourless and pointless as his “exposé”.