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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General fictionFiction|summary=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 banned 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, their 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 told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni MorrisonOnyi Nwabineli|title=HomeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=Toni MorrisonAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri''Home'' is simply a beautifully crafted novella. Set in post Korean war Americas childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, it features some familiar Morrison characteristicsmonetary gain. Veteran Frank Now Anuri is suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder, but in her twenties and she is released from service with no treatment as so many were, especially if they were black no doubt. But at least he has survived unlike his two friends whom he grew up with. Frank is troubled slowly trying to regain her confidence and has his flawsto get her life back, but also has dignity. He finds himself returning suing her step-mother to take down the Georgia homecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, Lotus, he longed failing to escape from as a childstart her PhD, another typical Morrison settlement with nothing going for it apart from the goodness undergoing therapy and dignity of the secretly abusing people who live thereonline and receiving money from them for doing so. What draws him back Most importantly, she is the news that his younger desperately worried about her little sister, Cee, who is suffering from the aftermath new focus of some medical experimentation. It sounds grim stuff, but while life is hard, itOphelia's not a traumatically difficult readonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701186070</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela S Choi1529153298|title=Hello Kitty Must DieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=It all started with a missing hymen's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. If you think that’s an odd way to start a review (A woman? I mean, bear in mind that’s exactly how this book startshonestly. Very first line in fact. Fiona Wu is a 28 year old lawyer living in San Francisco. Successful) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, self assured but still living at home thanks to her Chinese roots and her over protective parentsthough. Women have been disappearing. She’d rather hang out with her pet parakeet than nice Asian boys Well, they've been murdered, but since her parents are desperate to get have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her married off father wants to one of move the latterfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, she doesn’t always get her own wayDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. An appointment at a doctor’s office with a view to sorting out For Miv, the aforementioned missing hymen leads to a chance reunion with a criminally-minded old school move would mean leaving her best friend (last seen setting another pupil on fire), Sharon, and then she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the fun really beginsdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570491</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madeleine Tobert1035906708|title=The Sea On Our SkinDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary='Amalie Matete woke up alone on the first day We tend to think of her life Maria Callas as a married woman…her battered body…the bruises on her thighs'. Amalie had scarcely been prepared for this. Only sixteenGreek, but she'd spent all of her time was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in the village December 1923 and was marrying a stranger, a man who had seen her only once. But moved to Athens when she was luckythirteen. With no Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to give her away, she was lucky 'Callas' to be being married at all, her mother tried to tell her. On her wedding day Amalie had been frightened by make it more manageable in the stormStates. It When she was a bad omen back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she said. Just was raised under the Nazi occupation by a stormmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, her mother saidJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444734113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=EL JamesAlexander McCall Smith|title=Fifty Shades Of GreyThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=When college student Ana steps The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in at Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the last minute to cover an interview of online apps in providing a local tycoon for more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the uni paperbusiness, she never imagines how what as Ness is supposed planning to be take a one off meeting will change her life completely over trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the months chance to comehome 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 the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She Katie has no plans experience in running a business, or expectations in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to see him againlend 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, but Christian Grey knows what he wants loses his fiancee, and takes great pains his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to get his home, and it, so with Ana now next on 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his list of target acquisitionshouse! The thing is, she has Benny is the very little hope of escaping unscathedlast person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Swiftly realising So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he the delivery to his house is not your average wealthy bachelora new friend, Ana falls head first into a foreign and confusing new world she bad weather friend called Spike, who has no clue how been sent to navigatehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. With pressure on Spike is going to sign on the dotted line or leave take care of Benny, and never returnwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, Ana has to decide how far she’s willing to go to follow her heartif he, Benny, and when she should listen to the screaming voices in her head insteadHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099579936</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John IrvingKatherine Howe|title=In One PersonA True Account
|rating=4.5
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|summary=''In One Person'' Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a sensitive story of sexual identityfamily who run an inn, narrated by and being made to work there from a bisexual writer who young age. When she hears there is now to be a hanging of some pirates in his later yearsthe town, recalling not only his own coming she decides to terms with his sexuality go and watch. Enthralled and attraction to menhorrified in equal measure, women and transgenders while at school Hannah finds herself embroiled in a New England school, but also his later years and young boy's death at the devastating impact hands of the AIDS virus in 1980s Americatwo vicious pirates. At times the content is quite graphic She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, but John Irving captures dressing as a boy and joining the outsidernotorious Ned Low's feelings beautifully pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in this tale the thick of secrecy things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in a confusing world her rip roaring tale of identitylife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520962</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wiley Cash1471180158|title=A Land More Kind Than HomeMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a small town in western North Carolina there was man who's a storefront church control freak with newspapers across all the windows so that no one could see insubtlety of a half brick. Adelaide Lyle remembered to days when it was a storeJamie's son, as well as the days when she used to attend the church regularlyBo, but after a woman died in a 'healinghas his problems'. He' ritual which involved a snake s asthmatic and her body was left in her garden she decided 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 couldn't attend s a frequent flier in the local A&E and nor could she allow the townsometimes Bo's children not fit enough to go to run school. Missed shifts or the riskneed to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. For a while this separation worked reasonably well until a series of incidents, many quite small in themselves, provoked It was going to come to a tragedyhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew NicollB0CKD1L5JL|title=If You're Reading This, I'm Already DeadRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The story at the heart of Andrew Nicoll's ''If You're Reading This, I'm Already Dead'' Petr is bizarre but not entirely of Nicoll's own creationan orphan. It is narrated Rescued by German-born Otto Witte, who is rapidly recording a the strange time in his life while Allied bombs are falling in World War Two Germany, although the events that he relates go back to 1913 when Otto was an acrobat working in a travelling circus currently in Budareclusive Bear, or perhaps Pest - he's not quite sure. In addition to his acrobatic skillsis brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, he is also blessed with an impressive set of whiskers which make him in the dead ringer for the newly appointed Turkish King forests of AlbaniaWashington's Olympic Peninsula. If only he can get there before the claimant to the crown, perhaps he can steal the country After Bear dies and complete an unlikely rise a brief sojourn in status. In the human company of his pal, Maxand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a strongmanjourney through the forest, a blind mind-reader and his beautiful daughterbroadcasting the strange, an exotic dancer wild and a purloined camel, what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857384937</amazonuk>rarely heard voices he encounters.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Asko SahlbergSarah Marsh|title=The BrothersA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=We're in the family home After a bout of Erikscarlet fever as a child, in FinlandEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, in 1809everything about her life changes. It's large enough to have been Living in a time when the most impressive farmstead when his mother use of sign language was taken there seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a young bride, and school where she still lives thereis taught to lip read, with an elderly retainerbut physically restrained from signing. From here, Erik, Erik's untrusting wife she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and some other servantsusing a system called Visible Speech. One night the brother of At the familysame time, Henrik, returnsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and all the bad blood gets spilled. Not just about Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a neighbour's horse and hotheaded plans for it, not just over a marriage, and not even about the fact that when Sweden and Russia fought over Finland and the territory changed hands, the brothers were on opposing sidescomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095628406X</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR
|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kirsten Tranter1472263936|title=A Common LossThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There were five friends - DylanIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, BrianGreek by birth, Tallishad left the family home and refused to return, Cameron but Mary and Elliot - but then Dylan was killed in Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a road accident and pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the remaining four had to come to terms with how family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the dynamics first of the group had changedseveral annual visits. Dylan had always been She grew to love her grandmother and the fixerfamily's maid, the solver Dina, but was wary - and the mediatorfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He'd been was proud of his close connections to the one the other four had gone Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to when they had problems because he'd always come up with something and it was usually an ingenious solutionaccommodate them. It wasnHis prejudices included Helena't until after Dylans red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's death that the four friends realised that Dylan knew their dirtiest secrets - and that someone else had access to all the informationScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382756</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=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 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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul BroderickB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Bankruptcy DiariesGrave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 2000, Paul Livingson graduated from university The village is isolated and got his first proper grown up jobpoor. By 2007 he had filed for bankruptcyIt's surrounded by a Witching Forest. With no failed businessesAnd 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, roofs on homes, and even gallows, unfortunate property depreciation or poor stock market investments if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in between you might be at the village and that is the reason Volushka, a loss to see how he ended up theredrunken, self-indulgent, until you read his diary lazy lout of those years and it all becomes crystal cleara man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956511937</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis GilbertB0BYF82CXT|title=The Last Day of TermSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's the last day of term at the Gilda Ball Academy, 'Bill and English teacher Martin can't wait for the holiday to start. Shaken by the death of his friend Jack Amanda are living in a riot at the schoolsemi-detached house, he's failed to notice his marriage falling to pieces stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and his relationship with his son deteriorating. Just disappointment, when he thinks things can't get any worseTerry and Fiona – glamorous, an anonymous pupil accuses him of inappropriate sexual conduct.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906021511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Evonne Wareham|title=Never Coming Home|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kaz Elmore has almost come to terms with her daughter's deathsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. She died while on holiday in America with her father (Kaz's ex husband) and her ashes have been scattered Despite their different outlooks on the river. As tragic as it is, Kaz has no alternative but to accept that her daughter is never coming back. However, one day she receives a visit from a man called Devlinlife, who witnessed the accident couples befriend each other and was holding Jamie when she diedlife appears to improve for both pairs. His sole intention But all is to provide some comfort for Kaz by telling her that her daughter was not alone but when he spots photographs of Jamiewhat it seems, he realises that she is not the child who died in his armsand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931704</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea EamesShalini Boland|title=The Cry of the Go-Away BirdSilent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='The Cry of Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the Go-Away Bird' inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the debut novel from Andrea Eameswedding is planned and set. It revolves around Elise When the much-anticipated day arrives, a white Zimbabwean girl living through Alice is walked down the aisle by her teens on father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the eve of the Mugabe-sponsored farm invasions at the beginning of congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this century. The author herself grew up in Zimbabwe before moving joyful day and when Seth turns to New Zealand with her family face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the age of seventeen and there altar is a strong sense of memoir and personal experience in the novel, which has both positive and negative effects on the narrativewho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846553733</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1787636003|title=The Saturday Big Tent Wedding PartyGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alexander McCall Smith makes it look It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so easywhen thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, churning out book after delightful book that continue she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to delight her and amuse his loyal readersby that time she was obsessed by him. His writing seems effortlessAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in this story, once again, particular in the characters remain bar where all the wonderful friends we have always known and expected them to be, as if they really are alive and living these stories somewhere and AMS is simply transcribing them for our pleasuregirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349123136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie DastgirAmanda Craig|title=A Small FortuneThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Harris Anwar is truly a man who is split between two worlds. He's a British Pakistani, proud Few styles of his Eastern roots, but when he came to contemporary fiction interest me like the UK he changed his name from Haaris state- with a long, flat vowel of- to the more acceptable Harris and his clothing was that favoured by an English gentleman-nation novel. HeThere's proud and he would say many reasons to be proud. Some something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the things atmosphere of which he's proud are relatively small - the vacuum cleaner which he's had for twenty years might not work particularly wellday and capture it, but he's proud that he's hung on to crafting an image of the country as itstands in one particular moment. HeTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's proud practically synonymous with the genre of his car, contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the central heating which he installed himself and most ongoing issues of all he's proud the day into the lives of his daughterher characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857383736</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Nicholls152915118X|title=One DayPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I knew within ''Pineapple Street'' is the first ten pages that I was going story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to love their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn'One Dayt a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem'. It is s exacerbated when the only book that has kept me up at nightclan matriarch, Tilda, distracted me throughout asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the day Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and woken me up early in the morningdownsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. I couldn They won't put it downneed any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and didnCord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't want the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to eithercall Sasha 'the gold digger'. I have always found She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it difficult to settle on 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=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 favourite type 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 storyher childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, or even and the worry that there was a specific genre secret she was keeping for Lucy that I like, but this novel made me realise somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what I want in a book is realismhappened all that time ago. As Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley enjoyed their late night conversation After 'seeing' Lucy in the opening moments 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 bookpast, Nicholls pulled me into his worldshe 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340896981</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''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken MacLeod0008506337|title=IntrusionThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Pregnant Hope doesnThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O't want to take the FixLeary was all-consuming, a genetic cureapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-all pill one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that corrects Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the DNA of an unborn child event, they eloped and protects it Richard took her away from all sorts the Isle of diseasesWight. Hope's husband Hugh doesn't really understand her objections Margo did go to Oxford and went on to the Fix become a well- respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in factLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Hope the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never really articulates them at all - but supports her right far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to chooseleave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Tyler1914585402|title=The Beginner's GoodbyeDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=AaronI reviewed David F Ross's wife, Dorothy, was killed in an accident. An oak tree fell on their home, demolishing the sun porch where Dorothy happened to be at the time. He worried that if he had done things differently (book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a matter couple of some biscuits years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a television set) Dorothy might not have been where she affecting it was and might still be alive and for a while he camped out in the wrecked house until further damage forced him to move in with his sister. It was then that he realised that Dorothy wasn't really dead - wella gripping, not dead as we understand it - as she materialised in odd placesemotionally wounding read, wearing the clothes she used to wear and eventually staying with Aaron for longer periods rereading my review of timeit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. And gradually they began to bicker, just like a long-married couple...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187190</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth HaynesLucy Ashe|title=Revenge of the TideClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maud Perifanis wasnThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler't unduly worried when her husband didn't return home one evening as he often stayed in his office when he was working s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the news that he had been killed in a car accidentoutside but not, we learn, well out of Athens on the Saronic Gulfinside. And not on stage, was either. Because there's a shock lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to everyone in the house on Paradise Street where the extended family lived. Nikitas had been brought up by his aunt Alexandra detail – and her husband and she now lived in one apartmentsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', Orestes (his son that don't come from his second marriage) in the studio and heclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, Maud and their daughter Tig lived in a third apartment. There was someone missing though. Antigone was Alexandra's sister - and Nikitas' mother - but shejoie de vivre'd left Greece for Russia when he was three and he hadn't seen her since. She was over eighty when she heard the news The difference between a hard-worker, and she came back for the funerala star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595694</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francois LelordHeather Fawcett|title=Hector Finds Time (HectorEmily Wilde's Journeys)Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=MeetEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, if you havento write her life't alreadys work, Hector the psychiatristvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. He's like a champagne cork, Whilst she is brilliant at research and when something prays on his mind a lot POP he's off on a global trip speaking to set things rightfaeries, she is not so good with people. AndSo when she finds herself far, like a champagne cork let off far North in a posh place, he'll likely crash through a chandelier the small village of scintillatingHrafvsnik, interesting little pointshaving somehow offended the village matriarch, scattering them leftshe is not sure what she has done, right nor how to redeem herself and centre, and creating a pretty, if random, pattern put her final investigations for her book back on the book pageright track. This time it isEnter Wendell Bambleby, erher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, time. From patients worried they've none leftall charm and delight, much to those who want to grow up faster, and those putting anti-ageing cream on crowsEmily'-feets frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the best approach to spending, passing and perhaps not worrying about, timefaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906040893</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1398515388|title=The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 13|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Those of you who are frequent visitors to The Bookbag will know that I am a big fan of Alexander McCall Smith's writing. I am supremely happy that he continues to write so regularly Boy and reliably, providing me with much looked forward to reading matter several times through the year. This time it's the turn of Mma Ramotswe to slip back into my mind as we read of her detecting adventures in this, the thirteenth book in the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408702606</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog|author=Deborah Moggach|title=The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Ravi and his cousin Sonny decide to open the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in Bangalore as a retirement home, they don't know whether they will get any takers. However, by advertising it as a newly restored palatial hotel that will provide a life of leisure, good weather and mango gin, they soon get a great deal of interest and are welcoming their new residents. Evelyn, Madge, Dorothy, Norman and all of the others who decide to move to the hotel have their own reasons for leaving Britain but they are all excited by the new opportunity Seishu Hase and the lease of new life that it could provide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572028</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anuradha Roy|title=The Folded EarthAlison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Set in a remote hill top town First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the Himalayas where ocean floor, which created the earth has folded to create the majestic scenerytsunami and this, a young womanin turn, Mayacaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, recently widowed arrives to be closer to and the scene loss of her husband's climbing accidentlivelihoods was widespread. There, she encounters a rich variety of characters who seem to leap The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the page, foremost of which two at opposite ends both of society and life's journey tsunami - Charu, Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a young peasant girl whose emerging relationship with dog outside a young cook is touching and sweet, and Mayaconvenience store. He wasn's eccentric landlord, t a relict of dog person but the Raj who may or may not be in possession of some intriguing personal letters convenience store owner's comment that pertain he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to India's history open his car door and Tamon the departing Britishdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388312</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick AlexanderChristopher Bowden|title=The Case of the Missing BoyfriendMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that CC had it all. At thirty nine she was near the top Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of the advertising business, owned her own flat in north London and had a group of close, party-going friends. Thatseemingly ordinary woman's what you saw from the outsidelife, looking incarried out by her nephew after she has died. What CC saw was The aunt who always provided a life that lacked that one essential which she seemed unable to acquire. She was desperate to find the man of her dreams safe harbour and preferably one who would whisk her off to a farm house in Devon where she'd live ''The'' ''Good'' ''Life''. In the meantime she was stuck with the memories little bit of too many heartbreaks, indulgence to a mother whose current lifestyle brought young nephew had had a very unfortunate word much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to mind and being on the periphery of her friends' dramas - and as they were him an obligation to find it all gay she didn't have a lot of chance of meeting that elusive manout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085789630X</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BauerJennifer Mason|title=Rocks in the BellyPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Jon Bauer's Here at Bookbag Towers, we first novelmet Elizabeth Cromwell, ''Rocks dominatrix and unintentional detective in the Belly''[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], is an emotional journey. The narrator is a man in his late 20s who has returned from Canada to visit his mother who has cancer of the brain. The narrator himself is emotionally damaged from the relationship that he had with his mother from childhood when she investigated and her husband fostered children and, interspersed with the narrative, is the voice unravelled a series of narrator at eight years old and in particular telling the experience disappearances. In ''Partitions of one foster boyUnity'', Robert, who we know from early on in the book suffered she sets her mind to solving a significant tragedy while in their caremurder.. What that event was will be revealed in due course, but it is clear that the young boy suffered hugely from jealousy of his mother's love for these foster children.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688450</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aifric CampbellWill Carver|title=On The FloorDaves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Geri Molloy, the central character Five strangers come together in Aifric Campbell's ''On The Floor'', may be earning one moment as a six figure salary working at suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London investment bank just prior to the outbreak of the 1991 invasion of Kuwait, but she's seriously messed uptube line. Drinking heavilyAs their fates overlap, sleeping lightly and mourning the end of a relationshipstory is told in backwards order, she may be a mathematical genius with a direct line leading up to a mysterious Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager with whom she trades, but her life is increasingly being controlled by other peoplethe fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688086</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ada WilsonJennifer Mason|title=Red Army Faction BluesPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Max is 8 years old. He likes Lego ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Star Wars and playing -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with toy soldiers. He can tell you 102 words that rhyme a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with tree. He scarfs down grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken and ricea state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia. He does not like physical contact. He lives with his mum and dad who argue about what is best for him and why he’s not normal like other boys and girls.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751547875</amazonuk>}}''
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