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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne McCourtOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Lost ChildAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Sylvie lives in a small Australian fishing village with Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her mumstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, dad where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and elder brother, Duncbasically, monetary gain. However all that Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to change start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little Sylvie finds herself in sister, who is the middle new focus of dramas she neither understands nor controlsOphelia's online empire. Her world may never be the same but Can she tries to make sense of itsave her sister, Trollop, clingy mother, moody and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father and all. at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147788</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monique Roffey1529153298|title=House The List of AshesSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=There had It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been unrest in the Caribbean City of Silk in Sans Amen for some time with people growing increasingly belligerent about the perceived corruption of the governmentmurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Then the day came when The Leader called the Brothers together and told them Miv's upset because she's overheard that they were going her father wants to make history: they would take over move the House of Power and the television studios and reclaim what was rightfully theirsfamily 'Down South'. Part of this 'revolutionWhen you' re from Yorkshire, Down South is Ashesa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, a quietSharon, bookish young man who seems and she'll do anything to feel most guilty about the lie he told his wife - prevent that he'd be back home for dinner - when he left the house. HeShe'd been swayed by The Leaders not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's rhetoric and finds himself a part of the ragstopped talking -tag band of ill-trained but probably over-armed young men and teens who invade the House of Power. It would not go as they expectedto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471126668</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betsy Tobin1035906708|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|summary=JerichoWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie is a cleverNew York, funny in December 1923 and spirited girlonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more than compensates manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her disability. Living amongst the smallvoice -town folk of Jericho, she has was raised under the Nazi occupation by a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many in the town - especially mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her charming neighbour Ethan. All is calmelder sister, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnantJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan BrahamAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Pink House at AppletonPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Boyd Longfellow Brookes he's musing over the fact that - however much you might wish otherwise - soundsThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, smells or small details can evoke run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the most painful of memories online apps in full Technicolorproviding a more personal, tailored service. On this particular afternoon it was Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the music - Saint-Saens ''Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor'' - which brought back the scene which regularly invaded his dreams ''and'' his waking hoursbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Once again he was the eight-year-old boy whose father was thrashing him Katie is coming out of a break up with a leather strap whilst his mother wept bad boyfriend, and Papa demanded so jumps at the chance to come home to know if Boyd had molested the young daughter of a neighbourEdinburgh. He didn't even know And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the meaning of ''molest'' Isabel Dalhousie novels, but the expressions on the faces of those around him told him all he needed with some new characters who quickly begin to knowcharm. 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>1848767455</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sumia SukkarDean Koontz|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the WarBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=This Benny is having a book about colour against the grey backdrop of the Syrian civil warterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Adam Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, the 14disturbing coffin-year-old narratorsized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is an artist who describes emotion, people and things in colourBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Through colour, he makes sense of the world A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his sisterhouse is a new friend, Yasminea bad weather friend called Spike, 'who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is usually rubygoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny' although at times she is grey or green. Adam’s views are simples enemies, uncomplicated – if he says ‘Lying is bad’, ‘I don’t like the war’ Benny, and ‘[Paintings] always say the right things’Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908998466</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillKatherine Howe|title=Black SheepA True Account
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Mount of Zeal Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a mining villagefamily who run an inn, and no mistakebeing made to work there from a young age. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across the side of When she hears there is to be a hill, like the rows hanging of seats some pirates in an amphitheatre, with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hilltown, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine young boy's death at the village's corehands of two vicious pirates. The Howker family (and how evocative that name isShe hides away, so akin to the noise of hawking coal dust from onethat they don's lungs)t find and kill her too, and Ted and Rosethen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, the youngest of the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope dressing as a boy and joining the faintest of sparks to latch on to notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as regards a likeable futurecabin boy. But if that She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a faint sparkmutiny on board, then how safe is it so close to and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the tinderbox of a coal mine?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine Webb1471180158|title=The Night FallingMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the summer subtlety of 1921a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, Leandro returns to 'has his birthplace in Italyproblems'. He has made his fortune's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and his aim is sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to transform a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansionschool. But Missed shifts or the outside world is still reeling need to be away on time to pick Bo up from the Great War, school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and Leandro’s nephew, Ettore, is one of those most put in need of helpthe wrong. Reluctantly, Ettore asks his uncle for assistance. But Ettero could not have foreseen what It was going to come from that request…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>to a head.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Fournel and David Bellos (translator)B0CKD1L5JL|title=Dear ReaderRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Robert Dubois Petr is a publisher of an orphan. Rescued by the old school: strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the books matter - forests of course they do - but then so does the food and the drink which accompanies the professionWashington's Olympic Peninsula. He's had After Bear dies and a long career of paper manuscriptsbrief sojourn in human company, authors and lunches and he fully expects that life will continue in this way until he finally retiresarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, whenever that might be. Then one day an intern presents him with an ereader and nothing will ever be quite Petr goes on a journey through the same againforest, not least his briefcasebroadcasting the strange, which is used to accommodating vast quantities of paper. He's not a Luddite - but getting used to this gizmo is not going to be easywild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270264</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark B MillsB0BC3YTCMR|title=Waiting for DoggoGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Daniel didn't 'This story is not for everyone.'quite' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it' acquire Doggo by accidents contagious. His girlfriend got him from Battersea DogsIt' Home s not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but when Clara walked out on him without any never thought he would notice (well - just a letterher...) Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she told would tutor him to take Doggo back. He She readily agreed: tutoring was, something she said 'gladly did at church: this was just a dog. A small ugly dog'an extension. And Daniel was all set She went to do just that until his house and he discovered that Doggo would quickly be separated from what Dan considered to be a couple of important parts of his anatomyraped her. After a rethink Daniel had a new job as an advertising copywriter which In shock, she even allowed him to take Doggo to work with him and Doggo's career as give her a 'mental health companion dog' was bornlift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472218345</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=Everything I Never Told YouThe Figurine|author=Celeste NgVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=To understand Lydia’s deathIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, we need had left the family home and refused to understand Lydiareturn, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to understand Lydia we need the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to understand Lydia’s parents. Marilynlove her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, who wanted more from but was wary - and frightened - of her life than grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to play the dutiful housewife, who goes Junta and expected his family to college uphold his values but saw no reason to study accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and realise green eyes - inherited from her dreamsfather's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, not to meet Head of Security, at a man (her own mother’s dream for her)top secret biological research facility, goes ahead andis among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, wellcovered in plastic, she meets he has a man. That man is Jamessense that something very, whose credentials for teaching American history are very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up for debateand looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, but who nonetheless manages to overcome his background to secure he realises that there is 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 role doing just thatWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. They settle down The black wood of the forest provides heat and have Nathwarmth, then Lydiaroofs on homes, then a little while laterand even gallows, Hannahif needed. An unusual family for 1970s OhioThe fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, but a happy one. The children are brightdrunken, self-indulgent, the home lazy lout of a man is cosytolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349134286</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick RothfussB0BYF82CXT|title=The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Deep below the University''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, the ancient home stuck in a depressing rut of magic boredom and learningdisappointment, a young girl lives amongst the caves, tunnelswhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and abandoned roomsvery much in love – move in next door. In Seven days, her friend will be visiting - one of her few friendsDespite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and someone who Auri cannot wait life appears to seeimprove for both pairs. Those seven days But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are filled with Auri's preparations - her hunt amongst the tunnels and caves fated for a proper gift, and her thoughts as she goes about her businesstragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473209323</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersShalini Boland|authortitle=Julie SchumacherThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) is a Professor of creative writing Alice and literature at Seth are a small university match made in the American midheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-westmaterial. He She is also all he could possibly want in a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal historywife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much of which bleeds into -anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his professional lifeapproaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, with interesting resultswho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007586345</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pitre1787636003|title=Fives and Twenty-Fives The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
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|summary=In Iraq any soldier within 5 metres of a roadside bomb explosion will die as even an armoured truck will be torn to piecesIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Being within 25 metres of a roadside explosion would be fatal Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to foot soldiers. Lieutenant Pete Donovan and his US marine unit know this better take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than anyonewary. Their job in Iraq is It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to repair the roads but it's not as simple as it soundsher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Every pothole (yesAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, ''every'' pothole) contains a bomb; even looking after his interests on the kerbstones could be dummies filled with explosives. That's why every serviceman island and woman has it drilled into them: no matter what, no matter in particular in the bar where, always watch your fives and twenty-fivesall the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M7S1NL8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The TowerAmanda Craig|authortitle=Alessandro GallenziThree Graces|rating=34.5
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|summary=Amman, Jordan, and even while Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the world-nation novel. There's tallest building is still being constructedsomething so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, Biblia are hard at work insidecrafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. The global Internet conglomerate To say that Amanda Craig is undergoing its efforts to digitise the entire worldskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's knowledge, including practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a priceless archive held by a local dignitary, when one gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the workers involved - on behalf of day into the Vatican - vanishes, along with some unknown quantities lives of the works. Enter Peter Simms from England, and her characters in a classy Italian colleague, to help relocate whatever it was way that was missing feels natural and lived- in the face of threats from elsewhere in the Muslim kingdom.., never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883377</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=EmmaPineapple Street|author=Alexander McCall SmithJenny Jackson|rating=34.5
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|summary=When I read about ''Pineapple Street'' is the plan story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're-imagine Jane Austen's novels through contemporaryStocktons, bestselling authors I wasnonly Sasha isn't entirely sure this was a good thingStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Sense The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope? Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Really? Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. But then, They won't need any of course, my eyes lit upon the magic author's namefurniture from Pineapple Street, Alexander McCall Smith! so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Not only Nominally, they had been asked a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to be involved, but call Sasha 'the book he was going gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to work on was my most favourite Austen book, Emma'the GD'. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007553854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LucyEmily Critchley|authortitle=Alan KennedyOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Lucy is a painter. Hiding away 84 year old Edie has lived in Dundee on VE Daythe same small town for almost her whole life, but now she returns from is facing a disaster of an exhibition to a letter from a figure from move as her past. Uncle Albert, still in France, son wants to sort out move to another house and bring Edie to live with his affairs - who will get what after he's deadfamily, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. The letter sends Lucy on a voyage However, Edie is tormented by the memory of discovery - about a past full of arther childhood friend, lost loveLucy, found lovewho went missing over 60 years ago, grief, war and about the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what could possibly come nexthappened all that time ago. Set After 'seeing' Lucy in pre-war Londonthe high street, pre-war and wartime France and windyjust as she was the last time she saw her, rainy Dundeeshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy is a love story, but it's also a kind of coming-home. disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{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, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. 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 its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Chicurel0008506337|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie The love affair between Margo Garnett and her friends poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make the most of summer 1972love. High school is behind them, thereRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's booze to be drunk and weed to be smokedmother as 'an older man'. ThereHer parents worried that Richard's also influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a lot to contend withglittering career. This is a working class communityIn the event, ignored they eloped and disenfranchised by those with Richard took her away from the money Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and influence went on to helpbecome a well-respected journalist. Also the Vietnam War rages onThe couple had three children: Rachel, producing local heroes like Luke Imogen and MitchSasha. For some of Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the young people family home on the future is a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortenedIsle of Wight. As for KatieEven then the doubts about Richard's hopes and dreams, they all revolve around the hope of a date with Lukedrinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=The Love Song of Miss Queenie HennessyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Rachel JoyceDavid F Ross|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rachel Joyce envisions I reviewed David F Ross''The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not as a prequel or sequel to s book [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry There's Only One Danny Garvey by Rachel JoyceDavid F Ross|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold FryThere's Only One Danny Garvey]] but as a companion volumecouple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Giving Queenie's side of the story through an extended letter she is writing to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrival, Joyce gives readers a new perspective on her character's unrequited love for Harold, It was a surprising friendship she kept up with his son David until his suicidegripping, and her sudden move from Devon to Northumbriaemotionally wounding read, where she lived in a quaint beachside cottage and maintained her sea garden until she became ill with cancerrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522450</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BearLucy Ashe|authortitle=Claire CameronClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
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|summary=Canadian Claire Cameron was working as a counsellor at Algonquin Park in The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the early 90inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's, when a bear attacked and killed two camperslot that builds a dancer. HereSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, Cameron revisits attention to detail – and re imagines the attacksome things, but gives the campers two childrenthat ''je ne sais quoi'', and tells the story that don't come from the perspective of the daughterclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, Annaand a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581469</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night after NightHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Phil RickmanEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's no surprise that work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when it comes she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to reality television, broadcasters are fighting amongst themselves redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the next big thingright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, no matter how tastelessher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, baseall charm and delight, or exploitative it may be. Thatmuch to Emily's 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 all, it was the starting point for Phil Rickman's creepy new thrillerearthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, as tv producer Leo Defford decides to launch a reality show in a mansion formerly owned by tragically deceased movie star Trinity Ansellturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and perhaps haunted by Henry VIIIthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's last wife, Katherine Parrcomment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857898698</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Green DoorFrontpage
|author=Christopher Bowden
|title=Mr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Clare Mallory Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a promising junior barrister working from patient untangling of a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty good. Sheseemingly ordinary woman's not the type to be taken in life, carried out by psychics but when cards advertising the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the post, her interest is piqued, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and then by... well, something else. Tempted a little bit of indulgence to visit the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to her and rushes find it all out of the tent. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TwistJennifer Mason|authortitle=Tom GrassPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Twist doesn't know his family. Homeless Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and on the run from the police, he is swiftly caught up unintentional detective in the world of Dodge, Fagin, Sikes[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and Redunravelled a series of disappearances. As they involve Twist in the dangerous world In ''Partitions of Art theftUnity'', his skills are pushed she sets her mind to the limits, and his morals are tested by both the murky underworld and the beauty of Redsolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409150909</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=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 story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BlandJennifer Mason|title=Ashes In The WindPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
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|summary=John Burke and Tomas Sullivan may go to the same primary school in Kerry but even in 1908 they're on two sides of 'A struggling poetry zine, a great divide. John is Anglo Irish protestant mom-and comfortably off-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, being a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the heir to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas is Irish Catholic2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, living in poverty and raised to feel the resentment a billionaire with a state-of -the oppressed. The fact that John has been brought up to believe -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as JohnAlabama, Tomas and their future generations live with the consequences of an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a centuries old strugglecheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859337</amazonuk>}}..''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionCalculations of Rational Men|author=Douglas AdamsDaniel Godfrey
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|summary=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following as 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 Hitchhikers Guide world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the Galaxymissile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Whether With the fans have come from the radio seriescurrent state of medical knowledge, the (impossibly it's hard) computer game, or to think otherwise than that the (well intentioned prosecution would never have been brought but not particularly good) filmJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, they are everywherea relatively new prison. Ask a room of people what the meaning of life isHe's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and you can learning to be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as wary of the answerMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>
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