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===[[A Demon Take Me In Silver by R S FordSabine Durrant]]===
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Take a fantasy world where gods once walked It's not pleasant, the land first time Marcus and magic influenced everything for millenniaTessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, where magic was power to Greece on holiday and in the entire world was shaped around its influenceblink of an eye something awful happens. ThenTessa isn't there, overnightMarcus isn't looking, that power was ripped away, sorcerers' died instantly but Dave steps in and magic disaster is never heard of againaverted. Until nowJust. A farm girl from They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the tribal leaders will stop at nothing offer to control herbuy lunch for everyone, using whatever means necessarythey're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Can anyone save herBecause although Dave is a nice chap, or will and although of course they need saving from her? owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[A Demon Take Me In Silver by R S FordSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Elisabeth Hyde]]===
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''This is Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsbest when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and different starts can lead to the same finaleGeorge arrived. It's all subordinate Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''talk about him going into a retirement home. This beautiful book is exactly that George, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memorya nurse, of tangents would argue and digressionsLizzie, a professor of side notes English Literature, who lived locally and kept and elaborationsvisited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but above all that of affection; for both the story and the storyteller. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told simply wasn't going to him by his grandmotherhappen. [[Lala Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Elisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez]]===
===[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''What he wants most in the world is to cut off his own hands. At the wrist would be best.'' What child would think such a thing? Beck would think such a thing. The son of a talented pianist who became ill and could no longer play, Beck is the servant of his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any way, his mother's response is violent. But Beck doesn't want to play Chopin. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dream.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G DrewsConfident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the subjects she discusses. But how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! [[Riddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Blood Grey Bastards by Ruth ManciniJonathan French]]===
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Bringing up a child on your own ''The Grey Bastards'' is difficult: when that child is severely disabled the obstacles are almost insurmountable an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on adventure cleverly wrapped around a daily basissuper plot and well written characters, this book is so much fun. Ben A word of caution though, this is nearly five but still can't walk or talk and isn't toilet trainednot suitable for all readers. His main way As the tittle suggests there is a lot of communicating is to have bad language, a screaming tantrumLOT of bad language, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on endthrown around all the time in general speech. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying In addition to murder her sonthis there is also some sex and sexual language too, firstly by poisoning him there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and them by removing not as constant as the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean itlanguage and bawdy jokes. On If this bothers you then this is not the face of it there book for you. For anyone who doesn't seem to be a lot of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certainmind then this is an absolute must read. [[In The Blood Grey Bastards by Ruth ManciniJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands The Boy at the Door by Patrick WinnAlex Dahl]]===
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Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is about to close, and it'Hellos not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. But, Shadowlandsminor inconvenience isn'' chronicles t really a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the abortion pill black market in boy whose name is Tobias into the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical contextcar with her girls. It This is devastating to imagine the very real human lives a decision that are swept up in this cloud of refusewill change her life, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent itthat minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[Hello, Shadowlands The Boy at the Door by Patrick WinnAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'Do you not sometimes think a storm is coming?d made it through the first year - in fact they''d all made it, all eight of them, which was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn'Huntedt have the commitment required. Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out for that reason. She' continues where the s now determined that she ''Voicesreally'' series left offdoes want to be a ballet dancer, with our heroine on the run without anyone to defend her whilst the world around her is descending into chaosexcept...[[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Jean Ure|Full Review]]
Lacey, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being hunted. By a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable of speech. Both are determined to find her at all costs and both are building up an army of followers to track her precise location before the other. [[Hunted by G X Todd|Full Review]] <!-- Booth Dard -->
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===[[Across the Divide The Gravediggers' Bread by Anne BoothFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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Blaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's idea, he'I want all children s stuck outside a call box waiting to know that they CAN already make report back before he gets the train. The woman in the post office using the world payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a better placewallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, and that there are other people, now and in history and in fictionwhen he tracks her to the village funeral directors', who stand alongside them in thissigns of her infidelity.''This Lo and behold he is what author Anne Booth said about given a job as the inspiration behind her latest childrenwoman's husband's book and this thoughtful story about familyassistant, friendship and being brave enough although she also starts to speak up for what you believe should help employ him in sending messages to achieve thisher amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. In Across Blaise is of course deeply in love with the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace woman by now, and conflict hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the world wayside, and surely the decisions made by adults. brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Across the Divide The Gravediggers' Bread by Anne BoothFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Boy Underwater by Stephan CollishawAdam Baron]]===
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Mazowe ValleyCymbeline Igloo (yes, 2011 – Natalie hears that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never been swimming, and this wouldn’t be a sharp cry really big problem except for the fact that she thinks at first might be a birdthe school bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, but turns out and has challenged Cym to be a baby, abandoned race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the birds on internet, but there’s an accident at the kopje. She is there with her uncle and they take pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the childother kids, back to but that results in his farm initially and then to mum having a local village where it is breakdown. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in. They do not report it to the police. Cym’s life? [[A Child Called Happiness Boy Underwater by Stephan CollishawAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2translator) by Paul Hughes]]===
[[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|CrimeGeneral Fiction]] '''Caution: Mild spoilers for [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes|Beginning to End]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly, although he didnMeet Fabrice Valantine. He't have much choice but to hit the ground running. When we last saw him quite s a few of the rogue element at MI5 headhunter, and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and as Spearing has gone missinga successful one too, Devlin can't help but wonder if Spearting was involved in some way an office in bringing this convenient solution aboutParis. Whilst he might have wanted to search for SpearingAll around him however his world is changing – yes, there's upheaval at the Yard: the is a new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officersban on smoking in all workplaces. They can leave Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a year's pay mutual friend in lieu stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of notice or they can be prosecuted. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly having such a lot of empty desks - change to his own personality, his imbued habits and a promotion opportunity for Devlinlifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Running Amok Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2translator) by Paul Hughes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]===
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[[image:5starWilliam Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[:Category:TeensThe Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|TeensFull Review]]
''None of them believed me. Nobody believed I really couldn't remember what happened to my brother. I wanted to scream at them to listen. Because, for the first time in a long, long time, I was actually telling the truth.'' Ed Clayton is a teller of tall stories. He just can't help it - even though he knows and everybody else knows that most of what comes out of his mouth is complete fantasy. It all started when Ed's father was accused of fraud and sent to prison. Then mum's mental health went to pieces. Then, with nobody bringing money into the house, poverty - real, grinding, poverty - set in and life became all about scratching about for pennies and visiting the food bank. All of this is horribly shaming, so is it any wonder that Ed has become a bit of a Billy Liar, hiding the truth of his home life in the hopes the power of imagination can make it all disappear?[[The Boy Who Lied by Kim Slater|Full Review]]<!-- North Conaghan -->
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===[[84K by Claire North]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian FictionThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]===
Can you put a price on human life?[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Theo can, he calculates ''Funny how no one ever uses the worth of each person to the pennyword 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. The Company own everything That pure and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a that simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. [[84K by Claire North|Full Review]]''
Bobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. Bobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, who has her own reasons for spending as much time as possible not at home, but it's still a slog. But Bobby doesn't mind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each other. Bobby also attends a support group for young carers. It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice to meet other kids in the same boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the Vespa and the air of cool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|Full Review]]  <!-- Fischel Waites -->
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===[[Walls The Old Religion by Emma FischelMartyn Waites]]===
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When NedThe Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think is an ingenious plannothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is to divide their house in twothere. He had been an undercover policeman, so that there will be a mum side but something had gone badly wrong and a dad side, now he's in witness protection and working in the children can spend local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a week on either side at a timegood deal of distance between him and some very violent people. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptiveHe's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the local policewoman, Ned is incensed by with the walls that spoil his beautiful home and stop him from moving through on-again bits coinciding with the house as he used totimes when her husband's away. The walls make him angryIt's not an exciting life, and that anger grows and grows until one daybut right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, Ned suddenly discovers that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! is. [[Walls The Old Religion by Emma FischelMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home[[image:4. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
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===[[Beginning to End Marsha's Deal by Paul HughesLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeShort Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|CrimeFantasy]]
Sir Mark Wright, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruption, but Marsha didn't have an easy ride in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going to upgrade life the service by ridding it of corrupt officers and bringing in new technologyfirst time around. UnsurprisinglyShe'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], there were a lot rare disease which turned parts of people against him: some her body to bone when they were making very good money on the side damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and quite a few of went to Dignitas, the old-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsenseSwiss euthanasia clinic. They didnShe't think walkie-talkies d thought that would really work be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and computers would never really catch onshe found herself face-to-face with the devil. One of Wright's first actions And that was to bring in when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some new blood: what came of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be known as 'reborn on the trained brains' - people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by same day to the oldersame parents, more experienced officersbut would live her life free of disease. [[Beginning to End Marsha's Deal by Paul HughesLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) The Mercy Seat by Lauren St JohnElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction]]
Kat Wolfe lives with her mumIn an isolated Louisiana town, a vet, in London and following a break-young black prisoner sits in they decide that the time has come to move out of the city. Kathis dingy cell, a confirmed animal lover, is delighted when her mum accepts staring at the offer shadow of a job on the idyllic Dorset coast as window bars cast onto the job comes with one special condition. They must agree to adopt concrete wall by the previous ownerevening's catdying sun rays. However this presents At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a problem that Kat had not foreseen chair and electrocuted for the cat is rape of a wild Savannah white girl, who resists all Kat's attempts to sooth and tame himlater committed suicide. Furthermore when she starts a pet-sitting agency He is resigned to make pocket money Kat's problems mount up. The owner of her first charge disappears leaving a series of mysterious clues behind him. What started out as a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into a mystery that deepens and becomes steadily more dangerous. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper his fate; it is futile to support and help her. Although Harper is laid up with two broken legs thanks protest his innocence or to a horse riding accident she is not about expect anyone to let that stop her getting involved. Harper is believe what really happened; after all, love between a language black man and coding whizz and she and Kat are determined solve the clues and make people listen a white woman was never going to them. Even if they can't do that by themselves they know that they have their animal friends to helpa happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. Can the team work together to save the day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) The Mercy Seat by Lauren St JohnElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Cassandra ParkinTania Unsworth]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and EllaStella's mother died when she was a little girl. They share Stella is growing up in a bathroom in the turrethouse with her dad, who is often away, old and cold and not really supposed her grandmother, who is starting to be used…but this is where they hide away from experience the shouts onset of their parents' argumentsdementia. Here they play This is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the Underwater Breathing gamesame time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, submerging themselves struggling to fit in the water holding their breath for at school, and as long as they canher grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. For sixteen year old Jacob itWhen Stella's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more than that. She is terrified of the sea, of the fact that it will come desperate to find out what happened to her mum and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practiceuncover her family's secrets. [[Underwater Breathing The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Cassandra ParkinTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Ascension by Victoria GlendinningVictor Dixen]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigueSix girls, plots and machinationssix boys. The regular cast Each in the two separate bays of courtly characters are usually rich a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and powerfulto make their choices, with so many to choose from that under the well never seems to run dry and unblinking eye of the characters on-board cameras. They are often those high up the contenders in the circles of powerGenesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, or those prepared to do anything to get thereaimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. This bookLeonor, howeveran 18 year old orphan, is totally different. Set in one of the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor womanchosen ones. As a woman she can either marry, or join a conventShe has signed up for glory. Since Agnes She has disgraced herself then she signed up for love. She has no choice at allsigned up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, and she it is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeytoo late for regrets. [[The Butcher's Daughter Ascension by Victoria GlendinningVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor Sharing]]
In 1993Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, two teenagers stumble across tongue protruding, and wait to catch a horrific scene fly. Tungtang needs to be on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womanmove. Sometimes, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits she even hops right the way over to the girls rotten tree stump in different waysher community of Muddy River. Nell becomes obsessed And she loves to regale her fellow toads with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because stories of her exploits. That is, until a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years mean old crow comes along and Nell is still haunted tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by what happened that nighta bridge everyone knows. With few leads to go on, Infuriated by the Police closed the case without cracking it, crow and so it remains one inspired by her grandfather's stories of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklorehumans and ancient toad prophecies, but Nell struggles Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she istown of Little Cobblestone. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seems. [[The Brighton Mermaid Toad Who Loved Tea by Dorothy KoomsonFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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