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|author=Kate Earnshaw
|title=The Woman They Called The Machine
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Forty-three-year-old Lydia Mason has earned some unflattering nicknames in her time as a corporate lawyer for London-based Vertigen. On a previous project the staff called her 'The Machine', and others sometimes refer to her as 'Ms Terminator' and 'Snow White'. She wears only black, white and grey, and she seems very mechanical in her devotion to her routines. This undoubtedly makes her very good at her job. 'When the chips were down and you wanted something done, you went to Lydia.' But certain details make you wonder whether this character is soulless: 'She had not cried since 1979' and 'She rarely listened to music; she considered it irrelevant. There was no soundtrack to her life.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017KHLA4K</amazonuk>
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|author=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)
|summary=When Greg Bowman's eighty-three year old father Lyle dies he leaves some unfinished business. It's up to Greg – black sheep of the Bowmans – to start learning the meaning of the word responsibility and sort his errant family out, preferably without them noticing what he's up to and assisted only by the gentle nudging of his father's ghost. Can he do it before he returns to his altogether more carefree life in America, and without causing any further trouble? As Greg begins to sort out his father's house and affairs, he untangles some complicated webs of deception and unearths a few family secrets, including some of his own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843442779</amazonuk>
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