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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Vera Magpie by Helen CullenLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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William Woolf is a letter detectiveAs an opening line that must take some beating, working in but Vera's telling us the Dead Letters Depot in East Londontruth. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses The first two husbands, tracking down mysterious people Gary and reading endless letters of loveHarry were abusive, guiltbut Larry was a treasure, deatha keeper, hopeand it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and everyday now she's in prison with a mandatory lifesentence. 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. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Vera Magpie by Helen CullenLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase]]===
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Marsha didn't have A young boy arrives at an easy ride exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in life the first time aroundFar East. She'd been afflicted As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with [https://enan uncertain future.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], Plunged into a rare disease which turned parts school full of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer danger and went to Dignitasbetrayal, the Swiss euthanasia clinicboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. She'd thought that would be the endWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, but after cremation her body went straight it comes to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close boy to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day attempt to clean up the same parents, but would live her life free pit of diseasefilth that the school has become. [[Marsha's Deal Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver The Long Path To Wisdom by Naomi NovikJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Miryem comes from On my travels around the world, I have a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and rarely collecting, he leaves while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the family on the edge of povertynext person, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what I'm really looking for is owed from the 'local villagers' – the cookbook maybe, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of goldthe maps definitely, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from but above all: the dark beings that haunt the wood through folk tales. If I ever get to a King whoBurma, I won's eager t need to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… hunt, I can read before I go. [[Spinning Silver The Long Path To Wisdom by Naomi NovikJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Katalin Street by Andy JonesMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future. In this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[Katalin Street by Magda Szabo|Full Review]]  <!-- Vanston -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911569740.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911569740/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For 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]]<!-- Mandeville -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751571695.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751571695/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Every Colour of You by Amelia Mandeville]]===
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Friends are niceZoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, and couple friends are doubly nicelike her name, giving you like minded people to spend time is bursting withlife and colour. A pair She is the sort of pairs, or girl who would sing a couple of couplesrainbow is she could. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesnTristan (or ''Tree''t have their shared history, as she's calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a lot of fun – prolonged stay in a bit younger than the rest of thempsychiatric unit, an actress and so onhe sees a world as a grey place. [[Four Every Colour of You by Andy JonesAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Spark of Light by Stephan CollishawJodi Picoult]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe 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, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdGeorge Goddard, but turns out takes it upon himself to be get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a babynovel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, abandoned as well as other characters central to the birds on the kopjestory. She One of these characters is there with her uncle and they take Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the childsituation, back to who soon discovers that his farm initially sister and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it daughter, Wren, happened to be at the policeclinic that day. [[A Child Called Happiness Spark of Light by Stephan CollishawJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Lydia SysonM B Vincent]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the coast sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of New ZealandCastle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, a her family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homeare suspicious, especially her father, the judge. When a ship appearsLuckily for Jess, they feel that their wishes she doesn't have been granted to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsthat's all anyone is talking about. As both settlers and newcomers come together Jess accidentally finds herself in the search for thick of the childinvestigation, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the island small population dwindling and those who inhabit it. the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Lydia SysonM B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Parkin Stone -->
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and away into the sea marriage needs work. Son Zac is where we meet Jacob entering a rebellious adolescent phase and Ellait's hard to know how to redirect him. They share a bathroom in Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the turret, old journey into dementia and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from has never been an easy person at the shouts best of their parents' argumentstimes. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameThank heavens for her lovely dog, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified of the seaSebastian, of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practicehis unconditional love. [[Underwater Breathing What's Left Unsaid by Cassandra ParkinDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT General Fiction|LGBT General Fiction]]
''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’sEdward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. Beginning I had thirty stitches in 1985my perineum, the reader follows Yale wounds still tug and his friends as they come itch. They had to terms with do the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at stitches twice because the hands of first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionaday, or better still, take a devoted friend salt bath. Do they really expect me to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying do that? Have they ever tried to rebuild shower when a relationship beset by memories baby is crying and old hurt. [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai|Full Review]]you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
In 1993Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, two teenagers stumble across finds a horrific scene on mysterious key down the beach as they're sneaking home after back of an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedantique chair. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years grubby and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles torn label 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 which isattached reads. 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 Amber Maze by Dorothy KoomsonChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short The Water Thief by Lex CoultonClaire Hajaj]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel Nick is a story about mistakes, failures, in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, take up a work colleague, and is grappling with post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the increasingly eccentric behaviour building of her mothera children's hospital. This relationship He has no idea what he is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldgetting himself into. [[Falling Short The Water Thief by Lex CoultonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Landslide by Elisabeth HydeMelissa Leet]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Eighty-one-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-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to arrive one Friday nighther garden. He might be a retired lawyerJill's father was Jay Tutle, a state legislatorthe photographer, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedwas little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, Joy and tragedy would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement visit Jill's home. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of English Literature, who lived locally Jill's life and kept how great tragedy can breed resilience and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happenhope. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Landslide by Elisabeth HydeMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Aftershocks by Ruth HoganA N Wilson]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoIn a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. SheStrong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd been a single parent with help from her friendheard, Edwardand books and poems she'd read, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out plays she'd acted in the immediate aftermath – works of the drowningart that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but thereit does burgeon, or so we's now re promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a new love interest) Masha is still strickenmajor earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happybut at the same time most avowedly not. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedThis book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Aftershocks by Ruth HoganA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Hell's Unveiling by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Laura Solomon]]===
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Jane Ashland is dyingA 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''. That It's a description probably not much of a very early scene here – spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but also, of course, a platitude that can apply the devil is not one to all of ustake defeat lying down. Jane He's life, if anything, is going up out to wage war on Planet Earth and down in levels particularly on Marsha (who's thought of pleasure, energy – sobriety – as a 'goody two shoes' in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placeHell). Here then, scattered through Although a timeline-bending narrativestrong person, we have she's vulnerable where her days finding foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkcrime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, glimpses of therapycourse there are all the other children who are not only targeted, a drive but - worst of all - subverted to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America the devil's evil ends. He's out to Norway – prey on their fears and weaknesses and a trip there as with a newmany foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either -found friend to watch the musk oxendevil has set up a training complex on earth, of all thingscomplete with an elevator to Hell. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Hell's Unveiling by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Staying On by Allie RogersC M Taylor]]===
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Danny lives in Tony Metcalfe is a small Sussex town with his motherYorkshireman through and through and being honest, NatalieYorkshire's where he'd really like to be. Life is poorYou suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but they manage - until theyhe're threatened by s living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a benefits sanctionpub. A Job Centre employee looks The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond UK, what they first expectwith the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, and the resulting changes but there are described a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the reader through pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the naive yet perceptive swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and wholly original eyes returned home, in order to make a bit of four-year-old Dannymoney to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[Tale of a Tooth Staying On by Allie RogersC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia The Day of the Orphan by Anthony TrevelyanDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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When Claudia Saga is called eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesnwhat his mum calls ''hop-hip't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun Kingeating copious amounts of food, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helplearning about girls. ReggieLiving in an affluent, Samson's sonliberal and protected suburb, he has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, a group who prepare for where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the end of conflict raging around the world and encourage humanity dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to embrace their impending doombecome an unlikely revolutionary. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester Can chubby Saga really stand up to the end a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… soldiers desperate to stop him? [[Claudia The Day of the Orphan by Anthony TrevelyanDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Murmuration by Mike GayleRobert Lock]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose ''Murmuration'' follows the lives haven't taken them where they were supposed of a host of characters from 1863 to gothe present day. At an all time low time for both of themFrom a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the two men reconnect birth of Blackpool and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsits steadily fading glamour. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This There is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means hint of mysticism to help another personthe tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[The Man I Think I Know Murmuration by Mike GayleRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Smoking Kills by Stephanie ButlandAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and just as she was edging closer to death she finallya successful one too, finally got the call that she neededin an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, that there is a heart was available for her to have new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a transplant. Previously she hypnotist who had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But success with her new heart, she has been given a new lifemutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. Can Ailsa manage The session seems to start have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to live on her his ownpersonality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will her mother let her do 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. [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Smoking Kills by Stephanie ButlandAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves The Island by Stefan MohamedM A Bennett]]===
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When your best friend vanishesA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, how can you begin modern-day teenagers must fight to move survive on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okaya deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what would you do if kind of school ranks its students by how fast they reappeared in your lifecan run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back Link runs the slowest time in her lifeyears, but also by he immediately becomes the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearancebutt of every school joke. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return And some students are determined to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far make his life more surprising miserable than either of them could ever have dreamt… others... [[Falling Leaves The Island by Stefan MohamedM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Gary SantorellaHelen Cullen]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home William Woolf is called a Cottageletter detective, and while working in the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room Dead Letters Depot in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionEast London. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to rideHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids tracking down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why mysterious people and how he's ended up where he isreading endless letters of love, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violentguilt, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsdeath, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottagehope, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldeveryday life. [[Dyed Souls The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Gary SantorellaHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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