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|author= Holly RiversGrady Hendrix|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

|genre= Confident ReadersHorror|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist Women, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingby and large, have always been the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceasedsubjugated sex. Under the guidance of her Grandma MaeveThroughout history, Demelza begins they have been confined to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorspowerful man and let nothing stand in his way. ItGrady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's up Guide to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the bottom of strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this..by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=19126260391683691431

|isbn=17874775330008149089|title=The Lantern Men Cutting Place (Dr Ruth GallowayDS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Elly GriffithsJane Casey

|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance to It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the police and isn't even working at body - she was a mudlarker on the University banks of North Norfolkthe Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. SheDS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage team would later find three other body parts. Identification of the body was not going to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgebe easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her daughterfriend, KatieBianca Drummond, has settled into school better than another journalist, said that she could ever have hoped was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and life is looking good. Settled. She canshe hadn't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and there's a close relationship been willing to share any of the details with his family. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling downBianca.

|isbnauthor=183895015XJenny Valentine|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris AtkinsHello Now|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking the Mountbattensea -Windsor Hotel Groupwhich happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, but after getting involved who stays rooted in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest filmthe house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, Chris Atkins was invited reality she is consumed by a longing for a five-year stayher old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she swears. The first nine months were spent in HMP WandsworthThis world is quiet, which dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is probably until the oldestday Novo arrives, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europeher entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498

|isbn=1250168546B0867X8NW7|authortitle=Sarah KozloffAccess Point|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingT R Gabbay|rating=34|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped a pleasure, then, man who has been blind for decades to get see an image of a novel with world-building you actually want to delve intohummingbird. Sarah Kozloff She's debut novel presents a startlingly rich thirty-six years old and layered worldher life is about to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, bus. It's two years before we meet her again and in the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But itmeantime, she's spent 392 days in a world I could – coma and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptbring in some income.

|isbnauthor=1543987877Ben Oliver|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanThe Loop|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''Learn Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love world of Have and grief and love Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is the opposite trapped inside a living hell with no chance of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''escape. Your love relationships begin A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the moment you're born and guards who can end only when you diehis life with one squeeze. Whilst we all come into the world hoping Luka is taunted by limited access to give his memories and receive love there are many people relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for whom love Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is not quite so simplein despair. Some people His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating . With the same mistakes - only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedlyvisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, self-preservation, in can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the form of resignation is a necessity.loop?|isbn=1912626551

|author=Chris HautyKirsty Applebaum|title=Deep StateTroofriend|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained in most Are you tired of them. Sheyour child's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and she knows how classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to deal have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the pain-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to beat. And she is being watched.develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=14711856051788003470

{{Frontpage|authorisbn=H G Parry 1529123941 |title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepSilent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction|summary=Brothers Rob When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. Maggie, on the other hand, has just taken some pills - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists eight of them, in the "normal" world fact - and Charley before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a man who is blessed with an ability problem. He has to admit that he canand Maggie haven't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real worldactually spoken for a while. After years of protecting Charley How long? Well, Rob wants it's about six months since he spoke to discharge his duties Maggie and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, he can't really say if it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends likely that Maggie has tried to use them for nefarious gainstake her own life. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777

|isbnauthor=1444776185Rob Harrell|title=Haven't they Grown|author=Sophie HannahWink

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her sonWhen Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Benaged 12, his desperate attempts at school to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in Hemingford Abbotsschool. ActuallyRoss is, It's understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a little disingenuous permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on help with the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of pain, plus the woods very often and she was curious need to see where wear a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd hat at all lost contact twelve years agotimes to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. And it might have gone no further than With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that had Beth not seen a car draw up someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and her friend Flora get out along he has to find new ways to deal with two children she called Thomas his feelings, and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeensurvive.|isbn=1471409147

|isbn=15291237631786485575|title=Miss AustenMagpie Lane|author=Gill HornbyLucy Atkins

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItWhen we first meet Dee she's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most talking to Nick Law, the new college master. Law's lately of the letters which BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she and other members finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janemaster. What is not known is She''why'' she did this s pregnant and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Janelooking for help, not with the new baby but with the master's death - a definitive answer daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is unlikely selectively mute: she does talk to forthcomingher father, but to no one else. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingThe eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.

|author=Rory ClementsSally Magnusson|title=HitlerThe Sealwoman's SecretGift|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this There is a secret legend that is counter God came to that, and visit Adam & Eve in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutthe Garden. His neice, Geli RaubalEve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, the attractive young woman he seemed she attempted to be very close to in hide them from the early 1930seyes of God, denying that she had had his daughter behind his backmore children that those, already bathed, that she willing paraded for him. Protected under a false identity ever sinceGod was not to be deceived, the girl is completely ignorant of her pasthowever, and decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormann, eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand eyes of man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping so the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from Elves were born: the Reichhidden folk. So it's down to Tom WildeThey can see man, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timebut man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=18387702751473638984

|isbnauthor=0241985110Wendy Cheyne |title=All From the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterAuld Rock to a Hard Place|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on After the Jacobite defeat at the outskirts Battle of OxfordCulloden, many Scottish estates were given to English lords. She didn't want to go They were not kind to their crofting tenants. Many on the mainland were cleared and while this did not happen much on the police station or islands such as Shetland, the hospital: she just wanted new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though leave - and after dropping the girl at home he went to port cities on the policemainland, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter any further. Fawley North America and his team weren't prepared even to leave it at that Australia and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a historyNew Zealand.|isbn= 1838591753

|isbnauthor=1529400279Ele Fountain|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainLost

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was early summer 2018 Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten yearsher brother, Amit. The family had thought him dead - She lives with them in facta nice apartment, that's what and although they are not rich like some of the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, if not happygirls at school, they have enough money to be homecomfortable. What brought him? WellLola spends her time thinking about her school friends, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the ''trying to fit in memoriam'' with them, until one day, suddenly, everything in the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happenedher life changes. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his returnAfter taking a work trip away, but his Lola's father is delighteddoesn't come home. In fact, he's determined They have nobody else to have a party. Onlyhelp, with Frazer Latimerand as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. He's met Anawill become of them until, finally, a Polish immigrantthey are evicted from their flat, and they're getting marriedshe and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streets.|isbn=178269255X

|author=Penny ChrimesN K Jemisin|title=Tiger HeartThe City We Became|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=''Fly never meant to end up in New York is being born, the cage with city has reached critical mass and has matured into a manliving almost-eating tigerbreathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. She Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just saw her chance to skedaddle, as it destroyed Atlantis and she took itother forgotten places. And even when The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the cloud living embodiment of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into herscity, some cities have one, she still didn't turn round some have twelve and climb back up the chimney straightawayNew York has six. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on Together these human-embodiments must defeat the roofwoman in white and save New York from very real destruction.But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eye, it'What s a personality clash on an opener! And there's plenty more to come!epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=15101070450356512665

|authorisbn=Tanya Landman0241446732|title=Jane EyreOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a RetellingFamily and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=A young womanThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herBeata, and then nine years in a dreary schoolold, moves into Thornfield Hall struggled with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one jobwhat was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to tutor seek a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems solution close to be darkhome, brooding and troubled – but eventually, it became clear to the family thatthey were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''s nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is If they were to find a wonderful book way to turn live happily again their solution would need tobe radical.|isbn=1781129126

|authorisbn= T R Hendrick178730101X|title= What if They KnewKeep Him Close|author=Emily Koch|rating= 43.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= ItAlice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen and he's 2025. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, is a secret facility. Here, Dr Benton just got his A level results and he and his team brother are making some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactor, their anonymous fundergoing out to celebrate. Already, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place Someone has to another. But, unbeknownst find something to celebrate in the Benefactorletters, Dr Benton D, D and E. Alice has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether always had a good relationship with nineteen- travel through time. And year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's ready not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to testmy mind were ADHD. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211

|authorisbn= Catherine Steadman0241396840|title= Mr NobodyKeeper|author=Jessica Moor|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= DonKatie Straw worked in the women't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress s refuge and the women who lived there liked and writer, with this respected her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as She treated them well and seemed to my mind have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she jump from the 'fight scene' at local suicide spot into the end river below? There had been no signs that she was somewhat unrealistic – you know unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? The police are convinced that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) suicide, but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stageswomen who knew her believed otherwise.|isbn=1984890646

|isbn=14736818471838880658|title=In Her EyesMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Sarah AldersonHelena Dixon|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up It's the wrong summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way. One evening to visit the family which she never knew she returns from a night out with a friendhad, and before she can finish her bedtime routineat Enderley Hall. Her grandmother, her homeMrs Treadwell, and her life, Great Aunt Livvy are under attack: masked men have broken back at the Dolphin Hotel in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside himDartmouth. In Kitty gets easily bored working at the scuffle than ensues, Ava Dolphin - every day is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, much the same - but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting real reason for going away is that she needs a break after her life in a room down the corridorrecent adventures, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recoverwhich involved three vicious murders, wills an arson attack and an attempt on her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and whylife.

|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1788638026|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=M J Lee|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is It was easy to assume that the victim death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there was a lot of taunts, blood and claims the knife was on the floor at the side of nepotismthe bed, She was due to be deported that day. ItBut... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only her unique statusone which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officer, is sent to investigate and her mother being Queenhe quickly becomes suspicious, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even There's a snag though she has clearly fought : the inquest is due to be open in a strong young womancouple of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story Ridpath has her quickly leaving home for just five days to solve the World of Men, and this Diana case. The coroner is disinclined to delay the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs inquest: for her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from it's about giving closure to the waters is only going to disturb a lot more..parents.|isbn=1401282555

|isbn=17860756951471166023|title=When the Dead Come Calling Burnt Island (Burrowhead Mysteries 1Ben Kitto)|author=Helen SedgwickKate Rhodes|rating=4.5

|summary=It began with The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of a body under the swings in the childrenProfessor Alex Rogan's playgroundbody on a bonfire. It He'd obviously been alive when he was Dr Alexis Crosse put on the fire and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust himcan only have died a terrible death. Crosse The body was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greecefirst discovered by Jimmy Curwen, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and brought up there as an outsiderhis only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks after. DI Georgie Strachan His instinct is an outsider - youto cover Rogan've only got s body and he uses his sheepskin coat to look at her skin to realise do this, with the result that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''the prime suspect.

|author=Alastair ChisholmElliot Reed|title=Orion LostA Key to Treehouse Living|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board This is the transport ship Orion ready for story of a new life on Eos Five. Their new home young boy, William Tyce, who is still being terra-formed raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and life there his father's abandonment. However, it isn't going to be easytold in the usual narrative way. Instead, but it ''the book is'' going made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to be a fresh startALPHABETICAL ORDER. As BethI began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!'s mum puts itbut I soon grew used to the style, ''Thereand was instead caught up in William's a future waiting for usstory. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''|isbn=17880059291911545418

|isbnauthor=0753553236Will Dean |title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggBlack River

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go on, admit it Tuva Moodyson returns - you're not quite perfect. You still have those oddand this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, quirky, even loveable (returning her to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, the isolated town of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just Gavrik and into a little bit desperate search for her missing best friend. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of effort. Or put another waythe forest, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be quite monumental changes I never quite seem there to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|authorisbn= B T Keaton1782407480|title= TransferenceBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a mining planet millions couple of lighton-years from homeline booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the book, executed for high crimes against but a closer examination suggested that the Church, book is about the ruling body of Earth. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimurefamily life''s bodyof birds, which is rather different. Such is If the book was confined to the magic sex life of Transferencebirds, the ability you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - day, bring up their families and a power that cope in the Church has exclusive control overwild. As if Thaniel doesn't Not only that, you have enough things to worry missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived wide variety of birds which run through this book from Earth the first page to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight.last..|isbn=B082WPHTHH

|author=Christine BrownCamilla Bruce|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaYou Let Me In|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary=In the summer of 2008Eccentric, this book's author was spending isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a year and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. Her will instructs her niece and nephew to enter her days working home and find the key to their inheritance in an office job old manuscript left in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in : the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''last story she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read and critique itll ever tell.|isbn=171024299X1787633179