Published: 2019, Galley Beggar Press Genre: Fiction Themes: stream of consciousness, family My rating (out of 5): ❤ I very rarely give up on a book but I am just about to give up on this one. Ducks, Newburyport is written by Lucy Ellmann and is physically a breeze block of a book. I borrowed it from the library, purely because of it's size, because I needed a stock of fiction for the impending lockdown, and I didn't want to run out of reading material. The front cover tells me that the book was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, and that gets a tick from me whenever I chose a library book. There are also very favourable reviews from The Irish Times, The Observer and the Guardian so more ticks for those. On top of that, almost anyone who had a Fiction Pick list for 2019 included Ducks, Newburyport so after noting all that, what's not to like? Well.... What they don't tell you on the cover is that the book is written in the 'stream of consciousness' ...