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===[[The Island Redemptor Domus by M A BennettGamelyn Chase]]===
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A contemporary take young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the savage classic ''Lord of scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the Flies'': school, a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight family tragedy causes the boy to survive on arrive at the school a deserted islandvulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Link Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a fish out of watertrophy by friends and enemies alike. Newly arrived from AmericaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, he is finding it hard comes to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions boy to attempt to understand? And what kind clean up the pit of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient filth that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..has become. [[The Island Redemptor Domus by M A BennettGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Long Path To Wisdom by Helen CullenJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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William Woolf On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is a letter detectiveselling English-language books, working in and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesnext person, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of lovewhat I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, guiltthe maps definitely, deathbut above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, hopeI won't need to hunt, and everyday lifeI can read before I go. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Long Path To Wisdom by Helen CullenJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Katalin Street by Laura SolomonMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starThis 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]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, [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[:Category:FantasyKatalin Street by Magda Szabo|FantasyFull Review]]
Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. 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 when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight 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 to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all[[image:4star. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik: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]]<!-- Jones Mandeville -->
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===[[Four Every Colour of You by Andy JonesAmelia 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]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical General Fiction|Historical General Fiction]], [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
On a remote volcanic island off Dr Jess Castle, the coast self proclaimed failure of New Zealandthe prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, a idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, 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]]<!-- Stone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789014921.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789014921/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]] <!-- Parkin Ellis -->
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:5star4star.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, 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, take 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?''
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 in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but I think most women have felt like 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 as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just shortly after having a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatbaby. She is terrified Many of the sea, them simply managed to put one foot in front of the fact that other until things calmed down but some will have found it will come harder and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. developed post-natal depression[[Underwater Breathing The Place Where Love Should Be by Cassandra ParkinElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
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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 and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]] <!-- Koomson Hajaj -->
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Water Thief by Dorothy KoomsonClaire Hajaj]]===
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In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on Nick is in the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls post in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the identity building of the girl – who she calls a children''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happeneds hospital. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by He has no idea 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 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 he is. 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 seemsgetting himself into. [[The Brighton Mermaid Water Thief by Dorothy KoomsonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Landslide by Lex CoultonMelissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:HumourWomen's Fiction|HumourWomen'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. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families:Category:WomenMrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's Fiction|Womenhome. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's Fictionlife and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[Landslide by Melissa Leet|Full Review]]
Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. 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 of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- Elisabeth Hyde Wilson -->
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Aftershocks by Elisabeth HydeA N Wilson]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the best when he waited for his three children only thing to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislatormake sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth books and George arrived. Ruth, a corporate lawyerpoems she'd read, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement homeplays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. GeorgeIt was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, a nursebut it does burgeon, would argue and Lizzieor so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped major earthquake very much like the one that all would go smoothlyhit Christchurch, but that simply wasn't going to happenat the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Aftershocks by Elisabeth HydeA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Hell's Unveiling by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon]]===
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MashaA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's son Gabriel died some years agoDeal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. SheIt'd been s probably not much of a single parent with help from her friendspoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and whilst Edward has moved particularly on Marsha (his boyfriend moved out who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in the immediate aftermath Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed 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 drowningother children who are not only targeted, but there- worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's now a new love interest) Masha out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happyvery fragile. An independentThis is no small-scale operation, rebellious woman either - the devil has somehow been diminishedset up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Hell's Unveiling by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Staying On by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)C M Taylor]]===
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Jane Ashland Tony Metcalfe is dyinga Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. ThatYou suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living in a description of mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of uspub. JaneThe Viva Espagñe isn's lifet flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, if anything, is going up what with the uncertainty of Brexit and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pageseverything, but we soon learn that it recently found there are a very deeply dark down placecouple of problems. Here thenFirst off, scattered through a timelinehis wife - Laney -bending narrative, we refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapyyou believe that she's not well, but there's a drive to find her ancestors backstory there that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip 's not being talked about. Then there with a new-found friend 's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to watch sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the musk oxenswimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of all things. And nowhere money to try and make ends at least come in sight is anything like a platitude… of each other, even if they never meet. [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Staying On by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)C M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale The Day of a Tooth the Orphan by Allie RogersDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mothermum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, Natalieand learning about girls. Life is poorLiving in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, but they manage - until they're threatened by he has a benefits sanctiongood life. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on However, the family goes far beyond what they first expectsuburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and the resulting changes family are described to dragged into the reader through conflict raging around the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of four-year-old Danny. the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[Tale The Day of a Tooth the Orphan by Allie RogersDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Murmuration by Anthony TrevelyanRobert Lock]]===
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When Claudia is called to ''Murmuration'' follows the reception lives of her Manchester Office block a host of characters from 1863 to meet the present day. From a visitor, she doesn't expect it risqué comic to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonfortune teller, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out we see the birth of Claudia's life Blackpool and into its steadily fading glamour. There is a world hint of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggiemysticism to the tale, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for with the end mesmerising dance of starlings over the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to pier acting as an anchor throughout the end distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… sea. [[Claudia Murmuration by Anthony TrevelyanRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Smoking Kills by Mike GayleAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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James DeWitt Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and Danny Allen are both men a successful one too, in an office in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they were supposed to go. At met over an all time low time for both ashtray, of themsorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the two men reconnect prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Togetherlifestyle, with fear, they help each other put their lives back togetherwhen he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. This is a beautiful story He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about friendship and – but it's what it really means to help another personhe replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[The Man I Think I Know Smoking Kills by Mike GayleAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Island by Stephanie ButlandM A Bennett]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the call that she needed, that Flies'': a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for hergroup of mismatched, running polls amongst her readers modern-day teenagers must fight to decide survive on her actionsa deserted island. But with her new heart, she has been given Link is a new lifefish out of water. Can Ailsa manage Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to start settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to live on her own, and will her mother let her do understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient thatquad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Island by Stephanie ButlandM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Stefan MohamedHelen Cullen]]===
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When your best friend vanishesWilliam Woolf is a letter detective, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared working in the Dead Letters Depot in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every dayEast London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappearstracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifeguilt, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for himdeath, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shockedhope, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craveseveryday life. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Stefan MohamedHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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