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GH ’s books director Joanne Finney shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

by Harriet Lane (£20, HB, Orion) What lies beneath the image we construct of ourselves? Ruth, newly divorced and drifting as her daughter leaves home, feels invisible – until Sookie, her dazzling form

There are various reasons to be thinking about ...