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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever GirlJenny Lecoat|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithBeyond Summerland|rating=34
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|summary=I have loved Alexander McCall SmithJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's books since I first picked father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one upnight, leaving Jean and so I have been her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the release of thisBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, a standalone noveland the war is finally over, ever since I first heard about ittheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. It pains meBut will the truth come as a relief, therefore, that I'm unable to shout about how marvellous it is to you all or how you should rush out to buy will it immediately because actually, I found it disappointing.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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0307908259</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Terms and ConditionsOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Robert GlancyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Anuri 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's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is a slow bowl with a wicked curl! The hero, Franklyn wakes up in hospital; he discovers that he has had a car accidenther twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but he can’t remember anythingsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Alice Anuri is battling alcoholism, Franklyn’s wifefailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Oscarreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, his brothershe is desperately worried about her little sister, are full who is the new focus of loving concern Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and his work colleagues are solicitous, but Franklyn soon senses a lack of authenticity in his family members perhaps herself and starts to sniff round to discover why.her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852209</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Gretel The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the Darkdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Eliza GranvilleDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Josef Breuer has never had a case such We tend to think of Maria Callas as this. For a doctor Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in fin-de-siecle ViennaManhattan, spurned by his ex-colleague SigmundNew York, in December 1923 and with some dark happenings only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in his marriage and his past, he gets as a patient a young, damaged girl, found naked and battered outside an asylumthe States. She claims When she has never come from there, however, and was back in Athens - supposedly so that she is of no father or mother besides a purpose. She says could get appropriate training for her voice - she is a machine, an automaton, a beautiful kind of golem, with was raised under the task of going to Linz and killing Nazi occupation by a monster. She has an unusual number design at mother who mercilessly exploited her wrist. This story alternates with that and made no secret of another young girl, a very impetuous and belligerent child, now that her favourite nanny-come-nurse-come-cook-come-storyteller has been drummed out, and living alone with preference for her father, again a doctorelder sister, outside a zooJackie. But a zoo that doesn't strictly hold animals, nor allows for their conservation…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146453</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna QuindlenAlexander McCall Smith|title=Still Life With BreadcrumbsThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
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|summary=I was going The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to say that Rebecca Winter ''is'' all the online apps in providing a well-known photographermore personal, but that's not quite how Rebecca sees ittailored service. She had major success with ''Still Life With Breadcrumbs'' Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and became look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a household name - almost trip to Canada to get away for a feminist icon - but the success has faded into the pastwhile. People who think about it guess that she's well-offKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, if not wealthy but and so jumps at the truth is differentchance to come home to Edinburgh. When And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we meet Rebecca she's woken in already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the middle of the night by what sounds very like a gunshot - Isabel Dalhousie novels, but she's not in her New York apartmentwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She's Katie has no experience in running a couple of hours drive away business, or in a rented cottage. It's the financesmatch-making, you see. If she lets but Ness has full confidence in her New York property abilities, and rents somewhere cheaper the difference allows her to pay her motherthere's nursing home feesalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, a contribution to her father's rentWilliam, some assistance to her son - and all the other obligations we accumulate as we get older.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954118</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It Felt Like A KissDean Koontz|authortitle=Sarra ManningThe Bad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=Ellie Cohen lives with two of her best friendsBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, works in an exclusive galleryhe loses his fiancee, and sees her loving Jewish grandparents every first Friday of the monthhis house gets trashed. Her single mother Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, Aridisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, has always been the epitome of cool and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is Ellie’s best friend and confidante. the thing that has trashed his house! The only thing they don’t talk about is Billy Kay, Ellie’s biological father. That doesn’t stop him being one of Benny is the nation’s favourites, recently knighted, and talked about by pretty much everyone elsevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. But Billy He is a non-issue nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Ellie. She doesn’t need himBenny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, she has Chester, her mum’s best a bad weather friendcalled Spike, who has always been enough of sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a dad if she neededgood person. Her only real trouble Spike is her penchant for lame ducksgoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, or fixer-uppersand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552163279</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CairoKatherine Howe|authortitle=Chris WomersleyA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom Button has had enough Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of small-some pirates in the town Australian life, she decides to go and wants to grasp the nettle at the earliest opportunity watch. Enthralled and escape for more exotic places as soon as hehorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's free death at the hands of school and he and a friend can afford ittwo vicious pirates. Until the friend kills She hides away, so that pipe-dream. Plan B for Tom soon becomes the life of a university student in Melbournethey don't find and kill her too, with the chance and then to escape them completely she runs away to live in sea, dressing as a boy and joining the apartment his aunt left behind when she died – at least itnotorious Ned Low's in an exotically named development building, called Cairopirate ship as a cabin boy. But Plan C She soon forms for Tomfinds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, when he falls and from there we are caught up in awkwardly with some bohemian neighbours – who still, despite being ten years older, have plans her rip roaring tale of their own for making their own way to a better life – just not on the way Tom ever suspected…ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848663919</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Royle1471180158|title=First NovelMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Paul Kinder lectures Jamie Matson works in first novels at an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a Manchester university andhalf brick. Jamie's son, coincidentallyBo, he's also published a novelhas his problems'. YesHe's asthmatic and the more you read, just the onemore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. When not working he enjoys various pursuits, including sex Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in car parks when offered the opportunity (i.e. local A&E and sometimes Bo's not very often at all)fit enough to go to school. (If Missed shifts or the car park is need to be away on a flight path, all time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the betterwrong.) He personally doesn't see it as It was going to come to a problem, although not all his life has been problem freehead. No, indeed it hasn't!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=RespectRadio Free Olympia|author=Mandasue HellerJeffrey Dunn|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Growing Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up is difficult far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the best forests of circumstancesWashington's Olympic Peninsula. The council estate where Chantelle has grown up After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in isn't decaying - it is dead human company, and rotten. It has become armed with only a holding place for those who are condemned to pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a life of crimejourney through the forest, at least when they aren't serving time. It is the type of place that saps ambition and hope from its unlucky inhabitants. But Chantelle is determined to break out. She has avoided all broadcasting the pitfalls waiting for children in her situation, avoiding drugsstrange, alcohol, crime wild and dead end relationshipsrarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769472</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Buddhaland BrooklynSarah Marsh|authortitle=Richard C MoraisA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Seido Oda has lived all of his life in the shadow of the Head Temple of the Clearwater Sect After a bout of Mahayana Buddhism. His family home was an inn which catered to the pilgrims who flocked to the temple, and his mother scarlet fever as a devout member of the sect. He seemed marked for the priesthood from an early agechild, and at age 11 was handed over to the guardianship of the priests to begin his apprenticeshipEllen Lark loses her hearing. Seido's young life is blighted by tragedy, and Suddenly plunged into a promise he could not keep, and although a devout follower world of the Buddhasilence, he seemed unable to achieve true peace, even everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the beautiful tranquil surroundings use of Mount Nagata. He sign language was unable seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to relate a school where she is taught to other humans and sought solace in poetrylip read, artbut physically restrained from signing. From here, 'the prayers' of she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the river deaf and the beauty of his rural homeusing a system called Visible Speech. At age 42the same time, he has spent almost all of his life in or near the templeBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and expects to spend the remainder Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of it there when a very unwelcome appointment to America is offered to him. Seido accepts with a heavy heart, but only on the agreement that it must be temporaryespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883105</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=The Night GuestGood Girls Die|author=Fiona McFarlaneAyura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Widow, Ruth, lives alone in the isolated seaside house in New South Wales that was once their family holiday house. Her two adult sons now work abroad leaving her just her cats ''This story is not for companyeveryone. Oh, and possibly a tiger who prowls the house at night. When Frida turns up unannounced claiming to have been sent by the government to care for her things get more and more mysterious. As Ruth reminisces and then meets up again with her former heartthrob from her youth in Fiji, it becomes clear that something isn't right, although with whom is a different matter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776673</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The BoatFigurine|author=Clara SalamanVictoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a book It was in 1968 that starts at the end, which saddened me a little. Sometimes it’s hard Helena McCloud made her first trip to get lost in the mystery of a story when you know how it endsGreece. But a mystery this story is. Johnny and Clem are Brits abroad She was alone: her mother, traveling through EuropeGreek by birth, sticking to had left the coast where the boats are. Johnny’s into all things nautical family home and as boat peoplerefused to return, we understood this. The title is the first thing but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that caught my eye on this book, and the reason I picked it would be a pity if Helena grew upwithout knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. And it’s no lie: Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the vast majority first of this book is set not just on boats generally, but on one specific boatseveral annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family''The Boat''. It belongs to another expat couples maid, Dina, Frank but was wary - and Anniefrightened - of her grandfather, whose life is a series retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of ports his close connections to the Junta and harbours, and they come expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to Johnny accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and Clem’s aid when they need it mostgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mother, MotherDean Koontz|authortitle=Koren ZailckasAfter Death|rating=4.53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There’s Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a hideous advert on TV at the moment that tells mums they’re doing greattop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. And wouldn’t they like to buy some formula for their little ones Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, while they’re at it? It’s such he has a sweeping statement but the theory must be sense that mothers try something very, very bad has happened to do their best for him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the kidsshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, whatever the circumstances and whatever their resourceshe realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007547382</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela JacksonB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Emergence of Judy TaylorGrave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=JudyThe village is isolated and poor. It's life had been the stuff which many others might envy: she'd grown up with friends about her whom she'd known since primary school and married the first man who asked her - but he did seem to be doing rather well. Then one day she discovered surrounded by a lumpWitching Forest. A hard lump. In her right breast. NerveAnd the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -racking test followed nerveits bread-racking testlike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, but eventually she was told that everything was absolutely normal. Husband Oli wanted to celebrate. So did her friendsroofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The problem was Judy. Missing fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the bus home after her hospital appointment she sat in a cafe village and thought. She realised that ''normal'' was not what she wanted. She wanted something moreis the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472101650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathleen SchineB0BYF82CXT|title=Fin and LadySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In 1964 eleven-year-old Fin Hadley met his half sister again. His first contact with Lady had been some years before when Lady had left her bridegroom at the altar and run away to Capri. Fin's mother 'Bill and father took Fin with them as they went to Capri to bring Lady home. Fin's father had died Amanda are living in a while ago but it was at his mother's funeralsemi-detached house, six years laterstuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, that he when Terry and Lady met again - she was his only surviving relative Fiona – glamorous, successful and would be his guardianvery much in love – move in next door. LadyDespite their different outlooks on life, Fin the couples befriend each other and Fin's dog Gus left rural Connecticut life appears to improve for New Yorkboth pairs. The snag about this But all is that Lady's wellnot what it seems, not exactly ''parentand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'' material.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147211129X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lighthouse BayShalini Boland|authortitle=Kimberley FreemanThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Having loved [[Wildflower Hill 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 inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by Kimberley Freeman|Wildlflower Hill]]her father, I was really looking forward beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to reading Kimberley Freeman’s newest work. A story split over different time periodsface his approaching bride, featuring Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the story of a family altar is, who made their fortune in jewellery sounded appealing on several levelsis waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780877269</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The School Inspector Calls!Girls of Summer|author=Gervase PhinnKatie Bishop|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=If youIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn've read any of Gervase Phinn's fictionalized autobiographies (the Dales series)t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, or either of the previous two volumes so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in this Little Village School sether, you'll know what to expect here: cosy English fun set mostly around she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a primary school, full while before he made any sort of Yorkshire dialectphysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, quirky characters prone to malapropisms looking after his interests on the island and many 'kids say in particular in the bar where all the darndest things' momentsgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444706055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)Amanda Craig|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=I think I should confess, before I write this review, that I am a true Lucy Maud Montgomery geek! I have loved her books since I was a little girl, and I have read them Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so many times that utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the covers are worn day and faded and her stories live inside capture it, crafting an image of me, at least the country as it stands in part making me who I amone particular moment. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with a bottle the genre of red sand and contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a heart full gift for weaving the ongoing issues of memories. If anyone ever mentions ''Anne the day into the lives of Green Gables'' her characters in my presence my eyes get very large a way that feels natural and I get very excited (and my husband rolls his eyes...) So it is lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with trepidation that I sit down to review one of her booksissues far larger than themselves. Bear with me, I will try not to geek out too much, and I will do my best to be fair!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089886</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Love...Under Different SkiesPineapple Street|author=Nick SpaldingJenny Jackson|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jamie''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, LauraDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, and baby Poppy have had only Sasha isn't a few mishaps here at home, Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the opportunity comes clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to flit off move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to the land down underanother property, and start a new life in Australiastreet or so away, they’re more excited than which they are apprehensiveown. It might get them out They won't need any of the rut they’ve fallen intofurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and it will definitely give them the sort of warm glow Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that comes from living under wasn't the, erm, warm glow of reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the sungold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. There’s really no reason not They use it so often that they abbreviate it to go'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444767070</amazonuk>
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{{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 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?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The First Phone Call From HeavenGarnett Girls|author=Mitch AlbomGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Something extraordinary is going to happen, The love affair between Margo Garnett and will continue to happenpoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, through a long apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and eventful autumn in the small town of Coldwaterdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. People will pick up phones, Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and hear having a loved one speak to themglittering career. In the event, with assurances, love, delight – but they will all be eloped and Richard took her away from the voices Isle of dead loved onesWight. One woman has her slightly older, late sister contact her, another her deceased mother, who had ended her life disabled Margo did go to Oxford and wordless, while the local policeman will regain contact with the son killed in action in Afghanistanwent on to become a well-respected journalist. The whole town will be transformedcouple had three children: Rachel, but it might actually hit someone else hardest – Sully, fresh out of prison Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and patching his life back together with his six year old sonholidays were spent at Sandcove, with both the family home on the Isle of them puzzled at why Wight. Even then the laddoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's dead mother is among the silent majoritymind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442269</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=At Night We Walk In CirclesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Daniel AlarconDavid F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Ashe|title=Clara 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 ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''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=Peruvian-born Daniel Alarcón returns Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to South America in this story of one manwrite her life's downfall and work, the twists and turns very first encyclopaedia of fate that not only contributed to this but also which compelled the narrator of this story to seek to understand what happenedfaeries. The main character, a young man named Nelson whose plans Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to follow his older brother to the US are halted when his father dies forcing him to care for his motherfaeries, has trained to be an actor but his career she is going nowherenot so good with people. Then he lands a part So when she finds herself far, far North in a notorious three person play that is going to tour the provinces. One small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the trio 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 play's writerright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, Henryher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, a man who was imprisoned under terrorist charges when the play was first produced. With Nelsonall charm and delight, much to Emily's ex girlfriend now pregnant with another man's child, the temptation to get away from his life in his home city frustration. But why is too tempting. No one could have forecast he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the impact this tour would have on his life though.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007517394</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sebastiana Randone1398515388|title=The HouseBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A woman wakes to find herself alone First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in a dark forestturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. She sees a man The result was complete and calls out to him but he ignores herutter devastation. Eventually The deaths were uncountable, she finds her way to a house and takes shelterthe loss of livelihoods was widespread. With no idea of how she The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came to be there - or recall far down the list of her own name, even priorities but - six months after the woman explores this dilipidated mansion and discovers tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a portal dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that transports her back he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to Regency England. Here, a dreadful thing happens before she is transported back open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in time again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1483613712</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=If I Never Went HomeChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Ingrid PersaudMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Bea Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a practising psychologist. Itpatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her second career - nephew after she was once an ambitious academic, has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a professor little bit of history, but a longstanding depression led indulgence to a breakdown and recovery meant young nephew had had a search for pastures new and much more fulfilling. But even now, she can't cast off the family crises interesting life than that led to her illness. Tina is a young girl living in Trinidad with her mother. One question preoccupies Tina - who is her father? Her mother won't say nephew Stephen had ever realised and her grandmother and aunt claim not it seems to know. Tina feels lonely a lot of the time and she is sure that finding her father would put him an end obligation to her unhappinessfind it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992697700</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ice-Cold HeavenJennifer Mason|authortitle=Mirko BonnePartitions of Unity
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right awayHere at Bookbag Towers, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their we first love – a shopgirl met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast series of South America for well over a weekdisappearances. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called In ''The EndurancePartitions of Unity'' and head with Shackleton , she sets her mind to the Antarcticsolving a murder.. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All my Friends are SuperheroesWill Carver|authortitle=Andrew KaufmanThe Daves Next Door|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='There are 249 superheroes Five strangers come together in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.' Tom is not one of them, but he had just got married moment as a suicide bomber prepares to one – the Perfectionist – when her jealous ex, Hypno, hypnotised her into being completely unable to see or hear or otherwise respond to himdetonate his vest on a London tube line. It certainly led to the wedding night Tom was least expecting – instead of the usual, he began to work out her new responses to him when he tried to touch her, such as hiccupping when he touched her head, spasms when he tried hand contact. Now, six months onAs their fates overlap, the Perfectionist is quitting the city for a new life. He story is told in the plane seat right next to herbackwards order, hoping against hope leading up to get what they had back…the fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846591600</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Butterflies in NovemberJennifer Mason|authortitle=Audur Ava OlafsdottirPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=' 'It's all threes hereA struggling poetry zine,' she saysa mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, 'three men in your life over a distance of 300 kilometres400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, three dead animals, three minor accidents or mishaps… animals will be maimed… it'll wet more than your ankles… it wouldn't be a bad idea to buy a lottery ticketwomen'.' And so an over-priced but miraculously accurate fortune-teller sets in process s track coach with a narrative that provides yen for bullwhips, a very quirky read, billionaire with quite a bit state-of charm amongst -the unusual. The lottery ticket and -art S&M dungeon, a loose end and man serving a best friend stuck life sentence in hospital all conspire to make the narrator and said best friend'Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s four-year-old son embark , x), on a journey cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of discoverythe cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, all on the southern stretch some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the ring road that encircles Icelandthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782270108</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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