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{{newreview
|title=Ghost Child
|author=Caroline Overington
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1980s Melbourne. A triple zero (=999) call has been received from a house on a notorious estate. A child is unresponsive. The story of how it happened is sketchy to say the least. And pretty soon, as it turns into a murder enquiry, people want answers. Need answers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Maggie
|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-year-old Jacob's birthday. His elder sister, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but his little sister isn't feeling well. Four-year-old Issy has retreated to bed and she's rather hoping that her mother will come and make her better, but Claire is trying to cope with Jacob's birthday party and it's quite a while before the family realise that Issy is very ill. She has meningitis and that night she dies in hospital.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Dinaw Mengestu
|title=All Our Days
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Isaac is a refugee from Ethiopia who finds a home in Uganda. At the university he's taken under the wing of a political activist also called Isaac. The 1970s is a dangerous time to be in Uganda as their world is about to explode. Years later Isaac the Ethiopian finds himself in America and lives under the care of social worker Helen. Slowly they form a less than professional relationship and Helen realises that what little she knows of him may not be the truth. Gradually his past is revealed as the guilt he carries comes to the surface.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444793772</amazonuk>
}}