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|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
|pages=352
|publisher=Transita
|date=June 2007
|isbn=978-1905175338
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Jill is a psychologist, who's worried about her husband Ash. Their marriage is mostly comfortable rather than sparkling, but he's recently been concerned about their student daughter Rose and seems depressed. Ash is an osteopath who runs an alternative health centre on the Isle of Wight; Jill doesn't like him to go much beyond the bounds of conventional - or at least proven - treatments, and is particularly suspicious of Marguerite, a rather strange mute woman with extraordinary psychic and healing powers.
some descriptions of places in the Isle of Wight, which the author clearly knows well; I found the balance about right there, with enough to set the scene but not so much that I became bored.
My only reservation was that one of the subplots, involving the strange Marguerite and her sister Jane, was hinted at but never explored. I eventually realised that this is because this is actually a sequel to another book, [[''The Sorrow of Sisters]]'', which apparently features them in the main plot. Since ''Blue Slipper Bay'' stands alone in many respects, I'm slightly puzzled about why any reference was made to the past, although if I had read the first book I probably wouldn't have noticed.
All in all, though, a good read. It probably wouldn't really appeal to young people, and is likely to be of more interest to women than men, but in general I'd expect a fairly wide appeal.
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