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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna PitoniakOnyi Nwabineli|title=The FuturesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan PeckAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, he has just started at Yale Collegethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots she posted every step of the other playersAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, he monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is actually Canadianslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, from smallsuing her step-town British Columbiamother to take down the content about her. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and they go out receiving money from them for pizzadoing so. She technically has a boyfriend from Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her Boston boarding school dayssister, but they soon break up and before long Julia perhaps herself and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for her relationship with her father at the rest of their college years.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718184564</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lizzy Mumfrey1529153298|title=Fall OutThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=CharltonIt's the sort of village where people aspire to live1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, despite its apparent ordinarinesshonestly. ..) ThereShe's the usual mix of commuters (itnot what's worrying Miv's not family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'toodoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' far from London) and those who make their lives in s upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the villagefamily 'Down South'. Richard Hughes When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a commuterfrightening, but his wife Jessica works at the local academyforeign place, where both their children - Alfie and Hannah - are pupilsbest avoided. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wifeFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Susie. ActuallySharon, some of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects and she'll do anything to prevent that he might need longer arms to hug her before long. Less popular is Gary Webber. HeShe's not worried about the sort of man who causes people dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf clubanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911079840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Fisher1035906708|title= All the Good ThingsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= NatureWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, nurtureNew York, chance in December 1923 and circumstance; all combine only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to produce make it more manageable in the story of Bethany Mitchell, a young adult who writes from her prison cellStates. We know only When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she has committed a 'bad thing', a bad thing that could get appropriate training for her voice - she sees as was raised under the end Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her story. Armed with a simple task, Erika, a psychologistpreference for her elder sister, sets out to challenge thisJackie. She asks Beth simply to compile a list of all the good things in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert HarrisAlexander McCall Smith|title= ConclaveThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It The Perfect Passion Company is hard a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to believe that Harris all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has managed asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to bring such pace Canada to the often lengthy and complex process get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a conclavebreak up with a bad boyfriend, but he has wrung out every piece of mystery and so jumps at the result had me reading through long into the nightchance to come home to Edinburgh. I simply could not put And so begins this downnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784751839</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne LealDean Koontz|title= The Teacher's SecretBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Terry Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been teaching at delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his suburban Australian junior school for years. Everyone knows himhome, heck half and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils of thing that has trashed hishouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He's an institutionis a nice person. A really nice person. You know So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the sort. And he does not take kindly delivery to his house is a new young upstart showing up and trying friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to meddlehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. He Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's not nasty about itenemies, if he, Benny, but it rubs him up the wrong wayand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079077</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeKatherine Howe|title= The Married GirlsA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=WynsdownHannah Masury is living in Boston, 1949. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdownhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married and being made to farmer Billy. She arrived work there from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted homeyoung age. Meanwhile, the squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned When she hears there is to the village with be a fiancée hanging of some pirates in tow. Daphne is beautifulthe town, charming..she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the warhorrified in equal measure, Felix knows some of DaphneHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's pastdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, but she has worked hard to conceal so that which could unravel they don't find and kill her carefully built life. For Charlottetoo, tooand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a dangerous past is coming back in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harry's return disrupts and joining the village quiet and itnotorious Ned Low's not long before gossip spreadspirate ship as a cabin boy. The war may have ended She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J S Rais-Daal1471180158|title= Purple FlameMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=Life hasnJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who't been easy for teenager Zach Ford. He just lost his entire family to s a control freak car accident, and hewith all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's barely keeping himself together. Each day is more gruelling than the lastson, but for ZachBo, it goes much deeper than the pressure of exams and the threats of bullies and teachers at school. Zach 'has a secret power that many seek and a few would kill forhis problems'. He is possessed by a demon, but the demon has a purpose: revenge on the people responsible for Zach's pain. As it turns outasthmatic and the more you read, the car accident that killed his family wasnmore you't so accidental. Every tragic thing ll suspect thathe's happened to Zach recently has been carefully orchestrated with one mistake — Zach was supposed to die in on the accident, tooautistic spectrum. Since he didn Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she't, he has become s a target, but frequent flier in the demon inside wonlocal A&E and sometimes Bo't let him s not fit enough to go quietlyto school. Zach will fight, even if his behaviour leaves him alone Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and strugglingput in the wrong. He'll get his vengeance, but it soon becomes apparent this supernatural battle goes back a lot longer than Zach's lifetime. Something ancient now festers, and It was going to come to a final battle brews amidst Heaven and Hellhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524678872</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Justin HugglerB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Return HomeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction|summary= The uniqueness of a boyhood spent growing up in Jersey Petr is conveyed in some memorable imagery in this novelan orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, intersecting the German wartime occupation of the islandhe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, the Afghan resistance to the Russians in the 1980s forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and present day conflict a brief sojourn in Syria. Benhuman company, now working internationally for and armed with only a human rights advocacy organisationpirate radio transmitter, flits back and forth between reflections Petr goes on his boyhood a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and his adult selfrarely heard voices he encounters. He is both attempting to solve the mystery }}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of what became Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of his uncle Jack, who had a brief but lasting impact on him scarlet fever as a child, and trying to decide how to save his disintegrating marriageEllen Lark loses her hearing. For the first few chapters I enjoyed these time shifts back and forth Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, advancing with Ben everything about her life changes. Living in understanding a time when the meaning use of events which sign language was seen as an eight year old he could something only partly graspsavages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Ben also develops From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a deepening appreciation of system called Visible Speech. At the choices he has made same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in life, such as his choice a complicated tangle of career, by examining the influences on his childhood selfespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722028</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita ShreveB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Stars are FireGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Meet Grace''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She's not exactly trapped in was a loveless marriagevery bright student, but something like it. She has no real way away from the kitchen sinka bit too nerdy if truth be told, and two very young children suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to care for while hug her husband in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is a civil engineer84% white. Her motherShe had a crush on seventeen-inyear-law hates old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her, but . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she has a great relationship with a girlfriend neighbour – except said friend Rosie has a wondrous love life, while Grace's experience with sex is getting worse and worsewould tutor him. Things deteriorate when Grace's husband, Gene, loses his mother, and retreats from intimacy even furtherShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. The small community around Grace – She went to his house and an endless rain shower – are closing in around he raped her. But what would happen In shock, she even allowed him to give her and those she cares for if a real disaster were to occur?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408702983</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jill Santopolo1472263936|title= The Light We LostFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=11th September 2001It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Lucy She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and Gabe meet in New York on refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a day that will change their lives – and the world – foreverpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. As Her trip to the city burns behind them, they kiss for family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the very first timeof several annual visits. Over She grew to love her grandmother and the next thirteen years they are torn apart, then brought back together, time and time again. Itfamily's a journey of dreamsmaid, of desiresDina, but was wary - and frightened - of jealousyher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of forgiveness – his close connections to the Junta and above all, loveexpected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. As Lucy is faced with a devastating choice, she wonders whether their love is a matter of destiny or chance His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008224560</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie RogersDean Koontz|title= Little GoldAfter Death|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= The heat Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is oppressive and storms are brewing released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in Brighton a makeshift mortuary, covered in the summer of 1982. Little Goldplastic, he has a boyish girl on sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the brink shrouded bodies of adolescencehis dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is struggling with the reality of her broken family something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a home descending into chaosWitching Forest. Her only refuge is And the tree at the end of her garden. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour, Peggy Baxtervillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The connection between black wood of the two is instantforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solaceand even gallows, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage if needed. The fear of her frail family being buried alive is an existential superstition in the worst way possible. In an era when so much village and that is hard to speak aloudthe reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, can Little Gold share enough lazy lout of her life to avert disaster? And can Peggy Baxter, a woman running out of time and with her own secrets to bear, recognise the danger before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199959</amazonuk>man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Meg HowreyB0BYF82CXT|title= The WanderersSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction |summary= Set ''Bill and Amanda are living in the near futurea semi-detached house, NASA prepares to send three astronauts stuck in to space to put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kanea depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, Yoshi Tanakawhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and Sergei Kuznetsov are the trio selected for the mission, but they must first prove themselves by spending seventeen months very much in love – move in a simulation that mirrors conditions next door. Despite their different outlooks on Mars. Each of life, the astronauts has their own reason couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for taking part in the mission both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships with their families will be put to the ultimate test as they begin this journey of discovery and escapismare fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146650</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa McInerneyShalini Boland|title= Blood MiraclesThe Silent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Like Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all twenty-year-oldshe could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, Ryan Cusack confident… and so the inevitable proposal is trying to get his head around who he eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding isplanned and set. This When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is not a good time for his boss walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to Ireland. It is certainly not a good time for face his adored girlfriend to decide heapproaching bride, Alice's irreparably corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the eye of an ornery grandmother altar is, who fancies herself is waiting for her to become his saviourwife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444798898</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cat Clarke1787636003|title= GirlhoodThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn''Girlhood'' focuses on a group of friends; Harpert exactly innocent but she was, Rowanperhaps, Lily and Amanaive, who are fast approaching the end of term at so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an elite boarding school interest in the middle of nowhereher, she was flattered rather than wary. The arrival It was quite a while before he made any sort of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between physical approach to her old friends and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the mysterious new girl who seems to have so much island and in particular in common with herthe bar where all the girls either worked or partied. But is Kirsty who she claims to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suellen DaintyAmanda Craig|title= The HousekeeperThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Annie has broken Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the cardinal rule state-of never mixing business with pleasure, and -the-nation novel. There's something so when utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the latter endsday and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's left without practically synonymous with the former, and in need genre of a new jobcontemporary social fiction at this point. She never thought about being has such a housekeeper, but gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her OCD tendencies mixed with years of working characters in hospitality mean she's quite capable, especially when an opportunity arises with her girl crush, Emma Helmsley, one half of a wellway that feels natural and lived-known celeb couple on the London circuit. Nothing is ever as it seemsin, thoughnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and Annie soon finds that behind those tall walls there is a family no less dysfunctional grappling with issues far larger than anyone else's, despite their fame, fortune, and front page headlinesthemselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1476771405</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips152915118X|title=The Beautiful BureaucratPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Meet Josephine''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Married Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to Joseph Jones, she has kept her maiden name to keep at least some character to her identitytheir brother Cord. As opposed to her new bossThey're Stocktons, who has no gender, no face, and horrid halitosisonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The job Josephine is forced to choose is a simple one, of taking a fileproblem's paper contents, clicking up exacerbated when the subject on a huge databaseclan matriarch, entering a date newly printed on the sheetTilda, asks Cord and repeatingSasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Told Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to obey strict secrecy rulesanother property, she starts to find unusual signs of malignance all over – a man in a grey sweatshirt following herstreet or so away, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from one month to the nextPineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a husband missing from choice but that wasn't the marital bed more and more often… reality. Is there a way for her find a spark of happiness in the humdrum, windowless cell she works, Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the horrid housing gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that is all they abbreviate it to 'the couple can afford?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roisin MeaneyEmily Critchley|title= The ReunionOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= This 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is an emotional story about starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the lives truth of two Irish sisterswhat happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, beginning with their invitation she starts to attend a twenty year reunion find pockets of memories coming back at their Convent High Schoolto her. They are both unsure whether to go And yet as she remembers the past, their adult lives having veered off she is forgetting more and more in totally different and dramatic directions since leaving schoolher day to day life. We find out that Will she uncover the sisters have each suffered terrible life eventstruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, changing them but I had always longed for ever gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the children they wereyear-long relationship that once defined her. The story reveals how they begin Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to reits sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-build their livesyear-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, supporting one another depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and becoming much closer in the processhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144479972X</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire North0008506337|title= The End of the DayGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= At the end of the dayThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, Death visits everyoneapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Right before Her parents worried that, Charlie doesRichard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. You might meet him in a hospital In the event, in a warzone, or at they eloped and Richard took her away from the scene Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a traffic accidentwell-respected journalist.Then again The couple had three children: Rachel, you might meet him Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the North Pole - he gets everywhereIsle of Wight. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by Even then the hand, take the gift he offers, or doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would you pay no attention never be able to the words he says? Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warningleave him in charge''. He never knows whichThen Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316316741</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump (translator)1914585402|title= LadivineDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Ladivine centres on the life of Clarisse, a woman tormented by guilt and shame over her abandonment of her mother, and ClarisseI reviewed David F Ross's daughter Ladivine, a woman haunted by her motherbook [[There's choices. As tragedy unfolds the mysteries of ClarisseOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's life and her determination to escape Only One Danny Garvey]] a past she cannot reconcile with her ambition irreparably alter the lives couple of her daughter years back and husband. The sadness at the heart of this book is that Clarisse, driven remember being absolutely floored by shame about her background chooses to create another life how powerful and identity and through this deception creates an insurmountable barrier between herself and the rest of the worldaffecting it was. When given the opportunity to let down her defences and be honest about who she truly isIt was a gripping, Clarisse falls prey to a violentemotionally wounding read, damaged man and finds herself drawn into an intoxicating web rereading my review of violence, drunk it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on truth and freedom to exist without pretenceit. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848666047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E G RodfordLucy Ashe|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Clara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime General Fiction|summary=In The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the second instalment of this seriesoutside but not, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuableswe learn, on the inside. Bill GalbraithAnd not on stage, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridgeeither. Because there's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmelot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servantattention to detail – and some things, Aurora. According to Galbraiththat ''je ne sais quoi'', this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at that don't come from the hospitalclassroom. George agrees to look into the theftA stage presence, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowcharm, hea ''joie de vivre''s about to enter . The difference between a world of deceit hard-worker, and dysfunctiona star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeHeather Fawcett|title=The New NeighboursEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Dartmouth Circle Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has always been travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the epitome very first encyclopaedia of British middle class proprietyfaeries. Manicured lawns, well-kept house facades… All Whilst she is where it should be brilliant at research and life speaking to faeries, she is orderednot so good with people. So when she finds herself far, with far North in the disrupting influence small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the townvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's university students out frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of sight all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and out of mindthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Imagine, thenThe deaths were uncountable, and the horror when loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the good citizens list of priorities but - six months after the Circle hear that one of their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationtsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Will it be He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the harbinger of doom they expect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>dog jumped in.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithChristopher Bowden|title=A Distant View of EverythingMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=AhChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, Isabel Dalhousie! The more I read about Isabel, the more I like carried out by hernephew after she has died. I could see, in this book in particular, how annoying she could potentially be as The aunt who always provided a friend, since she is forever gazing off into the distance, heading into her inner imaginings rather than staying focussed on the conversation, safe harbour and yet I think she would be an interesting, and thought-provoking, sort a little bit of friend indulgence to have. In this, the eleventh novel in the series, Isabel finds herself once a young nephew had had a much more embroiled in someone else's business. She, interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and her husband Jamie, are starting it seems to be resigned to the fact that she just can't help but get involved! Mysteries abound, both in this business and in her own family life, as we watch her day him an obligation to day doings up in Edinburghfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709392</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Margaret ForsterJennifer Mason|title= How to Measure a CowPartitions of Unity|rating=34|genre= General Fiction|summary= Seeking to escape her pastHere at Bookbag Towers, Tara has left Londonwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, resettling way up north dominatrix and unintentional detective in Cumbria where no-one knows her. She quickly settles into an anonymous, unexciting life, observed only [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by NancyJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], her elderly neighbour who begins to develop an odd obsession with herwhen she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. MeanwhileIn ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her three childhood friends are baffled by her disappearance, and resolve mind to get back in touch with hersolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784702307</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven AnthonyWill Carver|title=Isaac Montgomery for The Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the Love of Bethstory is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=34

|summary=There are words to describe ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Isaac Montgomery we meet at Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the beginning of the story. Unfortunately they2004 Olympics, a women're not words you usually use in polite company. He'd worked s track coach with a yen for many years in stockbroking and had made bullwhips, a billionaire with a substantial fortunestate-of-the-art S&M dungeon, but his a man serving a life was devoid of much sentence in the way of personal relationships. When he required a woman as Alabama, an escortenigmatic signature, K(s, x), he paid. He assumed that if he was having on a good timecheap oil painting, then she were too - if he even bothered to think about itan erotic art dealer in Georgia... He had '' This is just a friend whom he didn't see all that often sample of the cast of characters and it was when he thought about Phil that a little ''jealousy'' crept into Isaac's heartsettings in Preposterous. You As you can see, Phil was engaged to Penelope and they were obviously happysome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. Isaac began to wonder what love was - and how you went about finding someone to share your life with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152466815X</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate BeaufoyB0B2N7MVYM|title= The Gingerbread HouseCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The Gingerbread House'' is not world has barely had a cottage from a fairytale where a wicked old witch lives but it is in a wonderful rural setting, perfect chance to breathe out. But for getting away from it all. Or it would beJoe Marr, if it weren't for s not the missile crisis that's at the lady who lives there who, while far from a witch, can be a bit front of a b*tchhis mind. It He's not entirely her faultbeen convicted of murder. Eleanor has dementia and her fading mind makes her confused With the current state of medical knowledge, angry and quite it's hard work to care for. With her current carer off to attend her daughterthink otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's weddingBench, Eleanora relatively new prison. He's daughter in law Tess steps up just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to assume this role in be wary of the interim, bringing her precocious daughter Katia with herMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785300865</amazonuk>