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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=The Temptation to Be HappyBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5

|summary=Cesare is 77, widowed, generally ignored by Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the offspring he likes and bothered too much by end of the one he doesn'toccupation. StillDuring the war, he finds ways to fill his days. If heJean's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night Rossana, or keeping an eye on his grandson, he's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) leaving Jean and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)her mother waiting for years for news of him. Their minds are diverted As the British finally free the Channel islands from their usual pursuits when a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern Nazis, and the conviction war is finally over, their hopes rise that he has to do somethingthey will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, whatever or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the fall out or personal danger.radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=While his grandfather lived Anuri spent her childhood on display to the past was an area world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of certainty Anuri's childhood for Edvardsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. At aged 4 he'd been taken Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to live with his grandparentsget her life back, having survived suing her step-mother to take down the accident that killed his parentscontent about her. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to light showing Edvard his family history is different start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplacethem for doing so. Most importantly, his mother's nameshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the whereabouts new focus of late Great-Uncle Einar… and thatOphelia's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfonline empire. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzleCan she save her sister, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded perhaps herself and her relationship with secrets.her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louis de Bernieres1529153298|title=Blue DogThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=MickIt's mother had a mental breakdown after his father1979 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 murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's death and Mick was sent overheard that her father wants to live in in move the outback with Granpafamily 'Down South'. On the face of it When you'd think that it was going to be re from Yorkshire, Down South is a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boyfrightening, with no school to attendforeign place, in fact no other children anywhere nearbest avoided. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyoneFor Miv, with all the heat move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and the dustshe'll do anything to prevent that. But theyShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum've all got s stopped talking - to make the best of the situationanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Winman1035906708|title=Tin ManDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellis is a tin man – someone who practices the under-esteemed art We tend to think of panel beating. He can remove a dintMaria Callas as Greek, dent or blemish by expertly applying force so that you can't even feel where the mark but she was. If he has born to choose what would define his lifeGreek parents in Manhattan, thoughNew York, it wouldn’t be his jobin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It would be Michael and AnnieHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Michael, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the lad he grew up with Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and Annie who completed their trianglemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, changing 'everything and nothing'Jackie. Now only Ellis remains…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)|title= Sweet Bean Paste|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Sweet Bean Paste'' centres on Sentaro, an ex-con who dreams of being a writer, but instead spends his days making dorayaki, a type of Japanese pancake. He reluctantly employs Tokue, an elderly lady with disfigured hands, after tasting her divine bean paste - the perfect filling for said dorayaki. Predictably, a friendship soon blossoms between the pair, despite her age and appearance. In many ways, this could sound cliché - a protagonist learns a valuable lesson about not judging someone by their appearance after finding a friend in someone they never expected to like, not exactly an unheard-of concept. Yet, Sukegawa still manages to enthral his audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786071959</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 11 Oct -->|author=Terence J FryAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Creative Writer for the Creative NewspaperPerfect Passion Company|rating=14.5

|summary=The man we shall come Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to know as The Creative Writer was looking out of all the window of his office when he spotted online apps in providing a beautiful woman struggling to stay upright in the tornado which was rattling the windows ferociouslymore personal, tailored service. Then he realised that it wasn't just the dreadful weather which was affecting Ness has asked her: younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the woman was doubled 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 in pain with a bad boyfriend, and he could see bloodso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. AmazinglyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, no one was stopping bringing us to help heran Edinburgh we already love, worriedthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, he would find out later that, they might be sued if something went wrongbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The Creative Writer had Katie has no such worries experience in running a business, or in match- he dashed out into the tornado making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and brought there's always her back into the housevery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, shouting at his grandmother that she should call an ambulance.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682136</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsDean Koontz|title= The VisitorsBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersParanormal|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brotherBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Johnhe loses his fiancee, in and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a decaying Georgian townhouse on really weird, disturbing coffin-sized 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, Benny is the edge of very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a northern seaside resortnice person. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to shut really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellar. Untildelivery to his house is a new friend, suddenlya bad weather friend called Spike, John who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a heart attack and Marion good person. Spike is forced going to go down to the cellar herself take care of Benny, and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and secrets unravel, maybe John isnHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't the only one with a dark sides wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J R WardKatherine Howe|title= Devil's CutA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel as though I came Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to this book under false pretenseswork there from a young age. I requested When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the book thinking I was getting a murder mystery town, she decides to go and instead I was thrown head first into a roaring family sagawatch. Indeed Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, said murder mystery though pivotal Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the history hands of the familytwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, is more of dressing as a quiet subplot boy and catalyst from where to begin joining the storytelling for the booknotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. And so it was I was met with She soon finds herself in the Baldwine family and the Bradford Bourbon Company. The initial meeting thick of things when there is a romantic one as the family are presented high up in their castle mutiny on the hill - or in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea rosesboard, fruit trees and hazy Southern sunshine. It isn't long however before Ward transports the reader from such rolling splendour to the darkest corners there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of human psychology wherein fathers and sons may share life on the same lover, brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commoditiesocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phill Featherstone1471180158|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheep. The kind of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now that the grandparents are old and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of the rest of it. Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTomorrow|author=Sandra Aragona|title=Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive DiplomacyPenny Parkes

|summary=Sarah is married to Giorgio and when we first meet them heJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's Something Very Senior in the foreign ministry in Rome, much to a control freak with all the disappointment subtlety of his mother who thought that hea half brick. Jamie'd be there for her (in Sicily)s son, but not only does he go and marry a foreignerBo, he 'has a job which will take him all over the worldhis problems'. Such is He's asthmatic and the life of more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the diplomatautistic spectrum. Their two daughters have Sometimes Jamie needs to lead take time off at short notice - she's a pretty peripatetic life too, but when frequent flier in the family comes into our lives theylocal A&E and sometimes Bo're all in Rome - for s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time being - to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and just back from Nigeriaput in the wrong. To add It was going to come to the confusion there's Beagle, just about as undiplomatic a dog as you'll encounterhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1542733405</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas NeviaserB0CKD1L5JL|title=You Dear, Sweet ManRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5

|summary=Bobby Fastow's journey to work on Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the subway was an oasis of calm strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in an otherwise exhausting day: nothing was required the forests of himWashington's Olympic Peninsula. He could sit After Bear dies and relaxa brief sojourn in human company, gazing at the adverts until he got to his stop and went to his physically-demanding job. The ad for BurgerBlast caught his eye: armed with only a beautiful woman was sitting pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a boardroom tablejourney through the forest, encouraging you to read about broadcasting the business's move away from artery-choking food to a healthier menustrange, but it wasn't the message which caught Bobby's attention. It was the woman. She seemed to be looking directly at him wild and rarely heard voices he could have sworn that she winked..encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0976018527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura SolomonSarah Marsh|title=Taking WainuiA Sign of Her Own|rating=23.5

|summary= This is 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 first time I have come across Laura Solomon's workuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a New Zealand writer 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 won writing prizes for both her fiction been teaching the deaf and poetryusing a system called Visible Speech. Although this book appears to be At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a collection complicated tangle of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusingespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Debbie HowellsB0BC3YTCMR|title= The Death of HerGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a quiet part of rural Cornwallvery bright student, villagers are shocked to learn that a local woman has been attacked and left for dead in a maize field. So severe are her injuriesbit too nerdy if truth be told, that her memory has been affected and she struggles suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to remember details of hug her lifein case it's contagious. She tells the police that she thinks her name It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is Evie84% white. Then, she remembers something else; she has She had a threecrush on seventeen-year-old daughter called AngelReggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Where is Angel, Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and what happened 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 he raped her when . In shock, she even allowed him to give her mother was attacked? The police frantically search for Angel's whereabouts, but on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence of a child ever having lived there..lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1472263936|title=The House of Unexpected SistersFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Dear Mma Ramotswe is backIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, for had left the eighteenth family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (!Helena's parents) book in the series, and what felt that it would be a beautiful book it ispity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. I ran through Her trip to the whole tumult of emotions whilst reading this story, with all family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the usual moments of humour, annoying (and yet endearing) idiosyncrasies of character, low level mystery solving and endless cups first of redbush teaseveral annual visits. There is a case for She grew to love her grandmother and the agency with a lady who has been wrongfully fired from her job. Therefamily's the worryingmaid, Dina, background presence but was wary - and frightened - of Mma Makutsi's nemesis, Violet Sepothoher grandfather, who must surely have been involved in this poor lady's job woesretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And there is He was proud of his close connections to the difficult discovery of an unknown Junta and expected his family member for Mma Ramotswe, to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and an unwelcome return green eyes - inherited from anotherher father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maja Lunde Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and Diane Oatley (translator)former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, 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 History of BeesGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Bees are a handy symbol of the planetThe village is isolated and poor. It's environmental degradation, as you'll know if you've read anything surrounded by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on a Witching Forest. And the cover of this Uvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines.K. release The black wood of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adultsthe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The creatures also provide subtle links between fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the book's three story linesreason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162745</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jem VanstonB0BYF82CXT|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 Semi- The One with the KittensDetached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=George, Dog the cat ''Bill and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with Amanda are living in a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewing. Three kittens had found their way into the garden and told the resident cats that their mother had told them to run away when a twosemi-legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldn't run as she had detached house, stuck in a sore pawdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, but Daisywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Maisie successful and Boo had run and run and runvery much in love – move in next door. They'd no idea what happened to her - or how to get back home again. George is getting Despite their different outlooks on in years life, the couples befriend each other and wouldn't like life appears to upset his two legs, The Lady, by being away from home improve for too longboth pairs. But all is not what it seems, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Motherincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susi OsborneShalini Boland|title=Angelica StoneThe Silent Bride|rating=43

|summary=I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friendsAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, but she's not big on friendsfunny; total and utter husband-material. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as is all he could possibly want in a childwife; beautiful, grabbed successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the care system wedding is planned and didn't so set. When the much fall through -anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the cracks aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as escaped its clutches she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and then had when Seth turns to learn how to cope. Sheface his approaching bride, Alice's been told that world implodes because she's taintedhas absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, that she ruins every relationship without intending who is waiting for her to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' people. One of her jobs is working in a supermarket and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fishbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Virginia Macgregor1787636003|title= Before I Was YoursThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rosie can see clearly her future family in her mind. And It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that doesn't happen, she adaptsand Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. So maybe she won Rachel wasn't carry the baby inside exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, but that lovely blonde girl at the adoption event could be their new daughter. Yes, she looks like she belongs to them alreadywas flattered rather than wary. It's meant was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to beher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Except it's not. Rosie and Sam don't get to have a genetic child of their own Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and they don't get to adopt in particular in the perfect blonde girl. They end up with bar where all the exact opposite: a boy from Kenya with a peculiar back story and an ardent wish not to be adopted. As optimistic as Rosie and Sam try to be, this isn't quite what they pictured girls either worked or hoped forpartied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565229</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gabrielle ZevinAmanda Craig|title= Young Jane YoungThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida, makes Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the lifestate-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss - who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married the- and blogging nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about it. When any writer who can catch hold of the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take atmosphere of the fall, but Aviva does, day and her life is over before capture it hardly begins. She becomes a late-night talk show punchline; she is slut-shamed, labelled crafting an image of the country as fat and ugly, and considered a blight on politics it stands in generalone particular moment.How does one go on after To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this? In Avivawould be embarrassingly inadequate: she's case, she sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Mainepractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She starts over as has such a wedding planner, tries to be smarter about her life, and to raise her daughter to be strong and confident.But when, at gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the urging lives of others, she decides to run for public office herself, her characters in a way that longfeels natural and lived-ago mistake trails her via the Internet like a scarlet A. These daysin, Google guarantees that the past is never, ever, truly past, that everything you've done will live on making them ciphers for everyone to know about for all eternity. And it's only a matter of time until Aviva/Jane's daughtersocial commentary but instead fully realised people, Ruby, finds out who her mother was, and is, and must decide whether she can still respect hergrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709805</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Henrietta Rose-Innes152915118X|title= Green LionPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The opening of ''Green LionPineapple Street'' is an apparently simple premise; a young South African man, Con, is tasked with picking up the belongings story of an old friendthree women: Sasha, MarkDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, who is lying in only Sasha isn't a coma in hospitalStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare black-maned lioness The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, who mauled him asks Cord and caused Sasha if they'd like to move into the comaPineapple Street property. However Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, as the story unfoldsa street or so away, Rose-Innes reveals an unflinching embrace which they own. They won't need any of the messiness of human furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and animal lifeCord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their troubled interactions'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithEmily Critchley|title=A Time One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 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 truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she 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'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 Tartanweightless 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Here we areThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, back apparently on Scotland Street, eager to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has been up to! both sides. This is now the twelfth book Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the Scotland Street series which is remarkablelove. That a serial novel has such momentum, Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that the characters within have become so very familiar to AMSRichard's loyal readers, is a testament influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to his skills as Oxford and having a writerglittering career. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards a relationship with In the dreadful Bruce! event, Surely she'll see sensethey eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha.won't she?! MatthewLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of all people, is in trouble with Wight. Even then the police, Irene is busy planning a PhD, and Bertie? Could there doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be a happy ending for Bertie able to leave him in the air?charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Richards1914585402|title= City of CirclesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Danu is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret. Over the couple of years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate back and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted remember being absolutely floored by the temples, spice mists, how powerful and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle districtaffecting it was. HereIt was a gripping, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locketemotionally wounding read, and discovers the name rereading my review of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circleit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=Low HeightsClara and Olivia

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Edouard The year is an exemplary example of 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 crotchety old man dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – changing his minddiscipline, attention to detail – and blaming anything and everything – even some things, that decision – on other people. He's physically fine'je ne sais quoi'', apart that don't come from one hand disabled by the classroom. A stage presence, a strokecharm, but mentallya ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, what with forgetting his pastand she has travelled extensively, assuming too many days are Sundays when they're not and buying too many inappropriate thingsresearched meticulously, he needs a nurse – Thereseto write her life's work, who has formed an unlikely the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and almost unwanted couple speaking to faeries, she is not so good with himpeople. For EdouardSo when she finds herself far, far North in the memory small village of his wife Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village 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 died ten years ago is still a little too strongarrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But this unusual 'family' why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is about to be upset by an unexpected arrival, who will stir going on with the emotions and life of their remote house no end…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477427</amazonuk>0356519120