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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeJenny Lecoat|title= The Hopkins ConundrumBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a failing pub in Walesbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkinstheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who composed ''The Wreck of told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Deutschland'' nearbyoccupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionIn Victorian England|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full where she posted every step of confusion Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens basically, monetary gain. 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 overrule his calling take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to Godstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, speaking who is the new focus of GodOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin Ludwig1529153298|title= The Original Ginny MoonList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= To GinnyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, a child with autismhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the word Forever means until the police comethough. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the home of her abusive birth mother, Gloria Women have been disappearing. Now fourteen Well, and in her fourth Forever Homethey've been murdered, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back but to Gloriahave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's apartment. She has no illusions about her motherupset because she's addictions or lack of parenting skills. She knows overheard that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill herfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Still she plots When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, obsessed with returning to Gloria's to find something she insists she left behindforeign place, something she hid under her bedbest avoided. Her teachers For Miv, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in turn frustratedthe move would mean leaving her best friend, infuriatedSharon, and perplexedshe'll do anything to prevent that. As Gloria returns to her life, She's not worried about the reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in dangers or that her quest Mum's stopped talking - to find a place she can truly call her Forever Homeanyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Cummings1035906708|title=We All Begin As StrangersDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In the summer We tend to think of 1984Maria Callas as Greek, a Chilterns village but she was gripped with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the homes of several residents born to Greek parents in the area. Despite an increased police presenceManhattan, New York, regular patrols in December 1923 and vigilante groups, this slippery character still managed only moved to evade detectionAthens when she was thirteen. A huge police Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Foxhunt'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to make it more manageable in the eventual capture of the perpetratorStates. This real When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -life news story sparked she was raised under the imagination of Nazi occupation by a young Harriet Cummings, mother who went on to create a fictional version mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of eventsher preference for her elder sister, which invites the reader to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of possible suspectsJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409169049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val HarrisAlexander McCall Smith|title=Hunting GroundThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Nyara Camp The Perfect Passion Company is one of a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the newest camps online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Masai Mara business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and it's run by James so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Alexia Sackvillethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The guests might sleep Katie has no experience in running a business, or in tentsmatch-making, but it's still luxury accommodation Ness has full confidence in anybodyher abilities, and there's bookalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Chui CampOh, on the other handand someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, sticks with and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the traditional way thing that safaris were runhas trashed his house! The thing is, including bucket showersBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Owner Ralph Somerton He is convinced a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that's what the guests ''should'' want and he won't listen delivery to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for updating the tired venuebeing a good person. It's beginning Spike is going to be reflected in the profits Chui makestake care of Benny, but instead and will certainly take care of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and itBenny's only enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a small step from that reasoning to looking at ways of ensuring Nyarawaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's failurewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955599717</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dominic SmithKatherine Howe|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinatingHannah Masury is living in Boston, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides having been sent to live with a masterclass in how family who run an inn, and being made to work up there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a canvas hanging of some pirates in stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingtown, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters she decides to go and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way throughwatch. Sara is one of the few women artists of the period Enthralled and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canalhorrified in equal measure, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been Hannah finds herself embroiled in Marty de Groota young boy's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is death at the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattanhands of two vicious pirates. Ellie Shipley forged She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a copy of boy and joining the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself at in the centre thick of things when there is a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions aremutiny on board, and from there we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will followocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stewart O'Nan1471180158|title= Last Night at the LobsterMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorlyJamie Matson works in an upper-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the Christmas lights, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeonclass grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the manager subtlety of one of these failing outletsa half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has to keep it all together for one last dayhis problems'. Short-handed, with most of the staff who He've bothered to turn up facing unemployment, he tries to make s asthmatic and the best of a bad jobmore you read, all the while knowing this will be the last day hemore you'll spend with the waitress suspect that he shouldn't still be in love with, particularly not now hes on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's about to be a dad. Oh, frequent flier in the local A&E and theresometimes Bo's a blizzard not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the waywrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293865</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delia EphronB0CKD1L5JL|title=SiracusaRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary= Michael and Lizzie are a writer–journalist couple Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from New York City; Finn bustling cities and Taylor live with their ten-year-old daughter, Snowbusy human society, in Portland, Maine, where Finn (an old flame the forests of LizzieWashington's) owns a restaurantOlympic Peninsula. After meeting up by chance on Bear dies and a trip to London last yearbrief sojourn in human company, they decide to go away together for and armed with only a proper holiday in Italypirate radio transmitter, to Petr goes on a journey through the Sicilian island of Siracusa via Rome. In alternating chaptersforest, broadcasting the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives of the four adultsstrange, all of whom are reflecting – with the help of hindsight wild and therapy – on what ended up being a disastrous trip. Although we don't learn until very late on in the book exactly what went wrong, there's a sense that it might be something to do with Snowrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071541</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caro FraserSarah Marsh|title= The Summer House PartyA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, After a group bout of people meet at scarlet fever as a country house party. Within three yearschild, England will be at war, but for now, time stands stillEllen Lark loses her hearing. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire Suddenly plunged into a world of fellow guestsilence, Paul Latimereverything about her life changes. Surely Living in a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, time when the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role use of sign language was seen as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddonsomething only savages do, their host, no longer youngEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but secure in his power as a practised seducerphysically restrained from signing. As these guests gather From here, none she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through been teaching the war deaf and beyondusing a system called Visible Speech. Or that At the first unforeseen event will be same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a shocking death… complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna PitoniakB0BC3YTCMR|title=The FuturesGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockey''This story is not for everyone. Like lots '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of the other playersher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, he is actually Canadiana bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from smallvitiligo -town British Columbiapeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. One night after It's not easy being a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go out for pizzablack girl whose skin is 84% white. She technically has had a boyfriend from crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her Boston boarding school days, but they soon break up . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and before long Julia Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and Evan have become inseparablehe raped her. In shock, as they will remain for the rest of their college yearsshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184564</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lizzy Mumfrey1472263936|title=Fall OutThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Charlton's the sort of village where people aspire It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to live, despite its apparent ordinarinessGreece. There's She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the usual mix of commuters family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (itHelena's not ''too'' far from Londonparents) and those who make their lives felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the villagefirst of several annual visits. Richard Hughes is a commuterShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but his wife Jessica works at the local academy, where both their children was wary - Alfie and Hannah frightened - are pupilsof her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and clearly still fond of expected his family to uphold his voluptuous wife, Susievalues but saw no reason to accommodate them. Actually, some of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug inherited from her before long. Less popular is Gary Webber. Hefather's the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf clubScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911079840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Clare FisherDean Koontz|title= All the Good ThingsAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary= Nature, nurtureMichael Mace, chance and circumstance; all combine to produce the story Head of Bethany MitchellSecurity, at a young adult top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who writes from her prison celldie when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. We know only that she Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has committed a 'bad thing'sense that something very, a very bad thing that she sees has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the end shrouded bodies of her storyhis dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. Armed with ''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 simple taskWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, Erikaroofs on homes, a psychologistand even gallows, sets out to challenge thisif needed. She asks Beth simply to compile The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a list drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of all the good things in her lifea man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert HarrisB0BYF82CXT|title= ConclaveSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= It is hard to believe that Harris has managed to bring such pace to the often lengthy ''Bill and complex process of Amanda are living in a conclavesemi-detached house, but he has wrung out every piece stuck in a depressing rut of mystery boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the result had me reading through long into the nightcouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. I simply could But all is not put this downwhat it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784751839</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzanne LealShalini Boland|title= The Teacher's SecretSilent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Terry Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school searching for years; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Everyone knows him She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, heck half successful, confident… and so the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils of hisinevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. He's an institution. You know When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the sort. And he does not take kindly congregation – their friends assembled to a new young upstart showing up celebrate this joyful day and trying when Seth turns to meddle. Heface his approaching bride, Alice's not nasty about itworld implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, but it rubs him up the wrong waywho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079077</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diney Costeloe1787636003|title= The Married Girlsof Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In It was the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billy. She summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted homeisland. Meanwhile Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, the squire's fighter pilot sonperhaps, Felixnaive, has returned so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to the village with a fiancée take an interest in tow. Daphne is beautifulher, charmingshe was flattered rather than wary... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some It was quite a while before he made any sort of Daphne's past, but she has worked hard physical approach to conceal her and by that which could unravel her carefully built lifetime she was obsessed by him. For Charlotte Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, too, a dangerous past is coming back looking after his interests on the island and in particular 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 bar where all the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning.either worked or partied..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J S Rais-DaalAmanda Craig|title= Purple FlameThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=Life hasn't been easy for teenager Zach FordFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. He just lost his entire family to a freak car accident, and heThere's barely keeping himself together. Each day is more gruelling than the last, but for Zach, it goes much deeper than something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the pressure atmosphere of exams and the threats of bullies day and teachers at school. Zach has a secret power that many seek and a few would kill for. He is possessed by a demoncapture it, but crafting an image of the demon has a purpose: revenge on the people responsible for Zach's pain. As country as it turns out, the car accident that killed his family wasn't so accidentalstands in one particular moment. Every tragic thing To say thatAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's happened to Zach recently has been carefully orchestrated practically synonymous with one mistake — Zach was supposed to die in the accident, toogenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Since he didn't, he She has become such a target, but gift for weaving the demon inside won't let him go quietly. Zach will fight, even if his behaviour leaves him alone and struggling. 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 a final battle brews amidst Heaven and Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524678872</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Justin Huggler|title=The Return Home|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= The uniqueness ongoing issues of a boyhood spent growing up in Jersey is conveyed in some memorable imagery in this novel, intersecting the German wartime occupation day into the lives of the island, the Afghan resistance to the Russians her characters in the 1980s a way that feels natural and present day conflict lived-in Syria. Ben, now working internationally never making them ciphers for a human rights advocacy organisation, flits back and forth between reflections on his boyhood and his adult self. He is both attempting to solve the mystery of what became of his uncle Jack, who had a brief social commentary but lasting impact on him as a childinstead fully realised people, and trying to decide how to save his disintegrating marriage. For the first few chapters I enjoyed these time shifts back and forth, advancing grappling with Ben in understanding the meaning of events which as an eight year old he could only partly grasp. Ben also develops a deepening appreciation of the choices he has made in life, such as his choice of career, by examining the influences on his childhood selfissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722028</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Shreve152915118X|title=The Stars are FirePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Meet Grace''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. SheThey're Stocktons, only Sasha isn's not exactly trapped in t a loveless marriage, but something like itStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. She has no real way away from The problem's exacerbated when the kitchen sinkclan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and two very young children Sasha if they'd like to care for while her husband is a civil engineermove into the Pineapple Street property. Her mother-in-law hates herTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, but she has a great relationship with a girlfriend neighbour – except said friend Rosie has a wondrous love lifestreet or so away, while Gracewhich they own. They won's experience with sex is getting worse t need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and worseCord can move straight in. Things deteriorate when GraceNominally, they had a choice but that wasn's husband, Gene, loses his mother, and retreats from intimacy even furthert the reality. The small community around Grace – Darley and an endless rain shower – are closing Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in around her''their'' family home. But what would happen They use it so often that they abbreviate it to her and those she cares for if a real disaster were to occur?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408702983</amazonuk>'the GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill SantopoloEmily Critchley|title= The Light We LostOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=11th September 200184 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 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 Gabe meet in New York on the worry that there was a day secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that will change their lives – and reveals the world – forevertruth of what happened all that time ago. As After 'seeing' Lucy in the city burns behind themhigh street, they kiss for just as she was the very first last timeshe saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Over And yet as she remembers the next thirteen years they are torn apartpast, then brought back together, time she is forgetting more and time againmore in her day to day life. It Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's a journey of dreamsdisappearance before her move, of desires, of jealousy, of forgiveness – and above all, love. As Lucy is faced with a devastating choice, she wonders whether their love is a matter of destiny or chance.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008224560</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie RogersMadelaine Lucas|title= Little GoldThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= The heat is oppressive ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Goldweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a boyish girl on the brink of adolescenceretrospective view, is struggling with a young woman unravels the reality of year-long relationship that once defined her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is Overlaid with later wisdom, the tree at narrator relives the end of affair with a man twenty years her garden. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour, Peggy Baxter. The connection between senior from its inception – the two is instant, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek summer after finishing university – to take advantage of her frail family in its sorrowful end the worst way possiblesummer after. In Set against the backdrop of an era when so much is hard to speak aloudisolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, can Little Gold share enough of how it changed her life to avert disaster? And can Peggy Baxter, a woman running out of time perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and with how it altered her own secrets to bear, recognise the danger before it's too late?irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199959</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Meg Howrey0008506337|title= The WanderersGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 35|genre= General Fiction |summary= Set The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently 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'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the near futureevent, NASA prepares they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to send three astronauts in Oxford and went on to space to put the first humans on Marsbecome a well-respected journalist. Helen Kane The couple had three children: Rachel, Yoshi TanakaImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, and Sergei Kuznetsov are the trio selected for family home on the mission, but they must first prove themselves by spending seventeen months in a simulation that mirrors conditions on MarsIsle of Wight. Each of the astronauts has their own reason for taking part in Even then the mission and their relationships with their families will doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be put able to the ultimate test as they begin this journey of discovery and escapismleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146650</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa McInerney1914585402|title= Blood MiraclesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by opening a new black market route from Italy to Irelandhow powerful and affecting it was. It is certainly not was a good time for his adored girlfriend to decide he's irreparably corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught the eye gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of an ornery grandmother who fancies herself his saviourit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444798898</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cat ClarkeLucy Ashe|title= GirlhoodClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=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 inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''Girlhoodje ne sais quoi'' focuses on a group of friends; Harper, Rowanthat don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, Lily and Amaa charm, who are fast approaching the end of term at an elite boarding school in the middle of nowherea ''joie de vivre''. The arrival of Kirsty causes difference between a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group hard-worker, and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends and the mysterious new girl who seems to have so much in common with hera star. But is Kirsty who she claims to be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suellen DaintyHeather Fawcett|title= The HousekeeperEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Annie Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has broken the cardinal rule of never mixing business with pleasuretravelled extensively, and so when the latter endsresearched meticulously, sheto write her life's left without work, the former, and in need very first encyclopaedia of a new jobfaeries. She never thought about being a housekeeper Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, but her OCD tendencies mixed she is not so good with years people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of working in hospitality mean Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she's quite capablehas done, especially when an opportunity arises with nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her girl crush, Emma Helmsley, one half of a well-known celeb couple book back on the London circuitright track. Nothing is ever as it seems Enter Wendell Bambleby, thoughher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and Annie soon finds that behind those tall walls there is a family no less dysfunctional than anyone elsedelight, much to Emily's, despite their fame, fortune, and front page headlinesfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1476771405</amazonuk>0356519120

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|summary=Meet JosephineFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Married to Joseph Jones, she has kept her maiden name to keep at least some character to her identityThe result was complete and utter devastation. As opposed to her new boss, who has no gender, no faceThe deaths were uncountable, and horrid halitosisthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The job Josephine is forced 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 comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to choose open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a simple one, patient untangling of taking a fileseemingly ordinary woman's paper contentslife, clicking up the subject on carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a huge database, entering young nephew had had a date newly printed on the sheet, much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and repeating. Told it seems to obey strict secrecy rules, she starts him an obligation to find unusual signs it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Partitions of malignance all over – a man Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in a grey sweatshirt following her[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to the next, she investigated and unravelled a husband missing from the marital bed more and more often… Is there a way for her find a spark series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of happiness in the humdrumUnity'', windowless cell she works, and the horrid housing that is all the couple can afford?sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roisin MeaneyWill Carver|title= The ReunionDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= This 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 an emotional story about the lives of two Irish sisterstold in backwards order, beginning with their invitation leading up to attend a twenty year reunion back at their Convent High Schoolthe fateful moment. They are both unsure whether to go|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, their adult lives having veered off a mom-and-pop mobile diner in totally different and dramatic directions since leaving school. We find out that the sisters have each suffered terrible life eventsNorthern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, changing them a women's track coach with a yen for ever from bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the children they were. The story reveals how they begin to re-build their livesart S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, supporting one another an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and becoming much closer settings in the processPreposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144479972X</amazonuk>B09STS96HS