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===[[Marsha's Deal Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|Short StoriesGeneral Fiction]] ''I have murdered three husbands.'' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:938689713X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/938689713X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:General Fiction|General Fiction{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]], [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral Fiction]]
Marsha didnJim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't have an easy ride in life the first time aroundgot his troubles to seek. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone His father committed suicide when they were damaged. Finally she he was unable to stand her life any longer young and went somehow he's never really managed to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinicconnect with his step-father. SheHis younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd thought just say that would be the endhe was very difficult, but after cremation her body went straight to hell Jim does his best with and she found herself face-to-face with the devilfor him. And that was when Jim's in love with a woman, but she made finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the pactclothing all leave a lot to be desired. In exchange for details Despite all that's he's not about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the same parents, but would live her life free of diseasepub. [[Marsha's Deal Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Redemptor Domus by Naomi NovikGamelyn Chase]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good A young boy arrives at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family an exclusive faith school on the edge of povertyscenic North Wales coast, until Miryem must step sent far from his family inthe Far East. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersAs the boy travels to the school, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of goldvulnerable orphan, soon becoming entangled with an array uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of strange creaturesdanger and betrayal, from the dark beings that haunt boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the wood through boy to a King who's eager attempt to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware clean up the pit of filth that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… the school has become. [[Spinning Silver Redemptor Domus by Naomi NovikGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Four The Long Path To Wisdom by Andy JonesJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Friends are niceOn my travels around the world, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people I have a tendency to spend time with. A pair of pairsend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for ages is the 'local' – Sally from universitythe cookbook maybe, Al through workthe maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn If I ever get to Burma, I won't have their shared historyneed to hunt, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than the rest of them, an actress and so onI can read before I go. [[Four The Long Path To Wisdom by Andy JonesJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be a baby, abandoned to the birds on the kopje. She is there with her uncle and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw|Full Review]]
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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. 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 it[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Parkin Mandeville -->
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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 Ella. They share a bathroom Zoe believes in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed adding life to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for years as long well as they canyears to life. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it Her world, like her name, is more than thatbursting with life and colour. She is terrified of the sea, sort of the fact that it will come and swallow their housegirl who would sing a rainbow is she could. She needs to know that Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she can survive under watercalls him) is the opposite. She has to practiceFresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[Underwater Breathing Every Colour of You by Cassandra ParkinAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] The Great Believers Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that day. [[A Spark of Light by Rebecca MakkaiJodi Picoult|Full Review]] <!-- Vincent -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471168239.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jess Castle and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands Eyeballs of a conservative AmericaDeath by M B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Parisjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Koomson Stone -->
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
In 1993, two teenagers stumble across Sasha has a horrific scene lot on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedher plate. The find hits Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the girls in different waysmarriage needs work. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants s hard to know how to forget it ever happenedredirect him. Fast forward 25 years and Nell Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, beginning the Police closed journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part best of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lietimes. As Thank heavens for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she is. Shortly after that fateful nightlovely dog, she too disappearedSebastian, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seemshis unconditional love. [[The Brighton Mermaid What's Left Unsaid by Dorothy KoomsonDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, [[:Category:Womentake a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?'s Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
Lex Coulton's debut novel is I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a story about mistakes, failures, and relationshipsbaby. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[Falling Short The Place Where Love Should Be by Lex CoultonElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the best when he waited weekend and, while waiting for his three children wife to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, finds a state legislator, elected congressman and now mysterious key down the back of an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedantique chair. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault The grubby and want torn label to talk about him going into a retirement homewhich is attached reads. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Amber Maze by Elisabeth HydeChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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Masha[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's son Gabriel died some years agoFiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. She'd been a single parent Susie lived with help from her friendmother, Edwardan alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath of dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the drowningphotographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality therewas little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's now a new love interest) Masha is alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still stricken, feeling that it young. Joy and tragedy would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happyvisit Jill's home. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminished''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Landslide by Ruth HoganMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Aftershocks by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)A N Wilson]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of In a country very early scene here – much like New Zealand, but alsoat the same time most avowedly not, of coursetwo women will find love. Strong love too, a platitude for our narrator will say that can apply her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all of us. Janethose exaggerated songs she's lifed heard, if anythingand books and poems she'd read, is going up and down plays she'd acted in levels – works of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pagesart that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrativedoes burgeon, or so we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York're promised from the off, glimpses because of therapy, something quite drastic – a drive to find her ancestors major earthquake very much like the one that takes her from rural America to Norway – hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, story of all thingsthe quake. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Aftershocks by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)A N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Hell's Unveiling by Allie RogersLaura Solomon]]===
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Danny lives A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a small Sussex town with his motherstrong person, Natalieshe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Life Daniel is poorframed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but they manage - until theyworst of all - subverted to the devil're threatened by a benefits sanctions evil ends. A Job Centre employee looks He's out to be prey on their salvation fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small- but her impact scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on the family goes far beyond what they first expectearth, and the resulting changes are described complete with an elevator to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old DannyHell. [[Tale of a Tooth Hell's Unveiling by Allie RogersLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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When Claudia Tony Metcalfe is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorYorkshireman through and through and being honest, she doesnYorkshire's where he't expect it d really like to be her father figure – . You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a man she hasnpub. The Viva Espagñe isn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonflourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, The Aztec what with the uncertainty of Brexit and The Sun Kingeverything, walked out but there are a couple of Claudiaproblems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – not well, but now hethere's returned and he needs Claudiaa backstory there that's helpnot being talked about. Reggie, SamsonThen there's sonthe pub, has joined a mysterious cult called which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony'Tarantula'', a group who prepare for s cleaning the end swimming pools of the world expats who have left Spain and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her returned home , in Manchester order to the end make a bit of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins money to try and make things very difficult indeed… ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[Claudia Staying On by Anthony TrevelyanC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Day of the Orphan by Mike GayleDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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James DeWitt Saga is eighteen and Danny Allen , like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are both men in their early thirties whose lives havenlistening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip''t taken them where they were supposed to go, eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. At Living in an all time low time for both of themaffluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good life. However, the two men reconnect suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and slowly find they're exactly what family are dragged into the conflict raging around the other needs. Togetherdictatorship that Saga lives under, they help each other put their lives back togetherhe is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. This is Can chubby Saga really stand up to a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to help another person. stop him? [[The Man I Think I Know Day of the Orphan by Mike GayleDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Murmuration by Stephanie ButlandRobert Lock]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer ''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that present day. From a heart was available for her risqué comic to have a transplantfortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog There is a hint of mysticism to make decisions for herthe tale, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heartthe mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, she has been given a new lifedrawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Murmuration by Stephanie ButlandRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Smoking Kills by Stefan MohamedAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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When your best friend vanishesMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, how can you begin to move there is a new ban on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared smoking in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every dayworkplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even seven years after her best though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend Mark vanishedin stopping their nicotine habit. When The session seems to have been successful, however he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by faces the fact that he hasn't aged prospect of having such a day – for himchange to his own personality, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shockedimbued habits and lifestyle, confused and emotionally reelingwith fear, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers when he so desperately cravesrealises it will never again grant him any pleasure. But whatHe needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Falling Leaves Smoking Kills by Stefan MohamedAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Island by Gary SantorellaM A Bennett]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if heA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies''s feeling belligerent: a group of mismatched, and he often is) is being taken back modern-day teenagers must fight to his home by his drop-out, slutty mothersurvive on a deserted island. The home Link is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectlyfish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it seems hard to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-settle into the-clock adult supervisionvenerable and prestigious Osney School. There's a paddock with horses for the kids Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to ride, their own understand? And what kind of school – and all ranks its students by how fast they can run round the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the kids down. Charlieslowest time in years, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and immediately becomes the fact he is no longer allowed butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to stay with make his grandfatherlife more miserable than others. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls The Island by Gary SantorellaM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistHelen Cullen]]===
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When I read William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the blurb for this bookDead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, I found myself instantly interested in its premise tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of two people trying to start their lives again following serious love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life changes. The book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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