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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Elisabeth HydeAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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EightyLong-onetime followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the best when he waited for his three children author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to arrive one Friday night. Scandi Noir)! He might be Here we meet a retired lawyernew detective named Ulf Varg, a state legislatorwho works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew solving those crimes that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedperhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. RuthThis particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, a corporate lawyerthe disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement homecase of potential werewolves. GeorgeThey're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, a nurse, would argue and LizzieI rather enjoyed them, a professor of English Literatureespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who lived locally and kept and visited him regularlycommitted the crime, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happenrather than the victim. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Elisabeth HydeAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
MashaThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's son Gabriel died some years agoWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. SheIt'd been a single parent with help from her friend, Edward, who had grieved s stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in anything the immediate aftermath Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the drowningdisinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but there's now a new love interest) Masha no Justine is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happyquite another. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedAlex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Things That are Lost by Ruth HoganAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Danger to Herself and Others by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also'They needed someone to blame, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of usand I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placeor so her parents tell her. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student She has dined in New Yorkfancy restaurants, glimpses explored the most sophisticated corners of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – the globe and lived a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, life of all thingsluxury. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Danger to Herself and Others by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Louis and Louise by Allie RogersJulie Cohen]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his motherWhat would you be like, Natalie. Life is poorright now, but they manage - until theyif you're threatened d been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to be their salvation - the same parents, but her impact on in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the family goes far beyond what they first expectother a girl. Does it really make a difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the resulting changes past, how they still are described , and prompts you to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannythink about how they could be... [[Tale of a Tooth Louis and Louise by Allie RogersJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia M for Mammy by Anthony TrevelyanEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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When Claudia is called The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to the reception of her Manchester Office block work together in order to meet understand each other again, as with a visitor, she doesn't expect family as complicated as the Augustts it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearss not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec Full of stern words and The Sun Kingcommon sense, walked out of Claudiashe's life and into a world force of success as a solar panel salesman – but now henature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O's returned and he needs ClaudiaReilly|Full Review]] <!-- Hogan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's helpParadise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star. Reggiejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], Samson[[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's sonlife after her death. Whilst there, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''she returns to the Paradise hotel, a group who prepare haven for the end eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doomthoughts that torment them elsewhere. Claudia's journey takes Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her far as a child, from her home in Manchester to this place of wonder. With the end help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the world – where encounters tricky and uncertain relationship she had with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Claudia Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Anthony TrevelyanRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'' Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]] <!-- Rubin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0718187091.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0718187091/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin|Full Review]] <!-- Mary Adkins -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473673313.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473673313/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
James DeWitt Smith Simonyi and Danny Allen are both men in Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their early thirties whose lives havenwedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of thems nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the two men reconnect branding agency in New York and slowly find they're exactly what losing money gambling when the other needspressures got too much for him. Together, they help each other put their lives back together He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. This He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another personbook. [[The Man I Think I Know When You Read This by Mike GayleMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Vera Magpie by Stephanie ButlandLaura Solomon]]===
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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 the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to ''I have a transplantmurdered three husbands. Previously she 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 with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]''
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]] <!-- Mohamed Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Falling Leaves Black Light by Stefan MohamedLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[imageJim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties:5starif you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him.jpg|link=Category Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:FantasyBlack Light by Laura Solomon|FantasyFull Review]],
When your best friend vanishes, 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 in your life? – 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 in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Redemptor Domus by Gary SantorellaGamelyn Chase]]===
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The USAA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, early 1980ssent far from his family in the Far East. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back As the boy travels to his home by his drop-outthe school, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while family tragedy causes the book doesn't guide us boy to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has arrive at the school a private room in a large self-contained bungalowvulnerable orphan, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionan uncertain future. There's Plunged into a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – full of danger and all betrayal, the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why With them locked into their scheming and how he's ended up where he isplotting, but it must have something comes to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed boy to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries attempt to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly clean up the pit of filth that the school has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldbecome. [[Dyed Souls Redemptor Domus by Gary SantorellaGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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When On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I read buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the blurb next person, what I'm really looking for this bookis the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying won't need to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointhunt, I can read before I go. [[Two Steps Forward The Long Path To Wisdom by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Katalin Street by Gayle FormanMagda Szabo]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells This is a story about the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their waypast. Freya has lost her voiceA specific past, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevercertainly, these three elements do not give justice to in the extent form of what each character has lostpre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future. In this expertly written novelbook, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, Gayle Forman writes we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about how these three dissimilar individuals each came those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to lose what was most important cling to themlong-gone times, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityfeelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[I Have Lost My Way Katalin Street by Gayle FormanMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better one. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…
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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]]<!-- Banks Mandeville -->
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===[[W Every Colour of You by John BanksAmelia Mandeville]]===
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On the slopes of Mt Hood Zoe believes in Oregonadding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationbursting with life and colour. Josh Kinninger She is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him angry, unmoored and with his world ) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardpsychiatric unit, he's filled with sees a world as a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptgrey place. [[W Every Colour of You by John BanksAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door A Spark of Light by Sally HepworthJodi Picoult]]===
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Pleasant Court The Center is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play last remaining abortion clinic in the street state of Mississippi and it's is the sort source of place people aspire great controversy when it comes tothe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. Certainly that's how 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 families who live there feel and there's form of a good sense of communitymass-shooting. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother What arises is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through novel that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been details the perfect baby for lives of the first six months of her liferemaining hostages, but is just starting as well as other characters central to be difficultthe story. BenOne of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in particularto help deflate the situation, is pleased who soon discovers that he can rely on Barbara his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to keep an eye on be at the situation whilst he's out at workclinic that day. [[The Family Next Door A Spark of Light by Sally HepworthJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Malcolm WaltonM B Vincent]]===
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Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to Dr Jess Castle, the Trad Jazz scene self proclaimed failure of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but he prestigious Castle family has chosen returned home to write it in the form sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of a novelCastle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoirjudge. His protagonist Luckily for Jess, she doesn'Martint have to try too hard to dodge her family' takes on Malcolms suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's mantleall anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and begins to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love small population dwindling and the sense of music, initially taking piano lessonsdanger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues Eyeballs of Death by Malcolm WaltonM B Vincent|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Stone -->
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===[[The Boat People by Sharon Bala]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Among Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the 500 Sri Lankans in marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rickety boat making its way rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellianredirect him. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the passengers journey into custody, placing the women dementia and children in a separate facility from has never been an easy person at the men. A gruelling series of hearings will decide on the fate best of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay in Canada, or deported back to Sri Lankatimes. The government fears that up to half of these asylum-seekers may have links to the Tamil TigersThank heavens for her lovely dog, a terrorist groupSebastian, so judges are instructed to have a firm handand his unconditional love. [[The Boat People What's Left Unsaid by Sharon BalaDeborah Stone|Full Review]]<br>
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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, 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?''
Cathal Flood is an old, belligerent man, living in a filthy, crowded house that was once I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a family homebaby. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic is employed Many of them simply managed to look after the ancient Cathal, she assumes she'll just be the next put one foot in a long line front of short-term dogsbodies for the old man. Instead, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and as Maud begins to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about the old man that awaken longdeveloped post-hidden memories within Maud herself. With the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… natal depression[[The Hoarder Place Where Love Should Be by Jess KiddElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and mercilessness. In just , while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a few pages a man has been hunted mysterious key down by the back of an angry mob in Ugandaantique chair. He The grubby and torn label to which is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has the hard task of dealing with her man's debtattached reads.. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generations. [[Kintu The Amber Maze by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy of a Scandal The Water Thief by Sarah VaughanClaire Hajaj]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children[[image: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him4star. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior ministerjpg|link=Category: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. [[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan:Category:Literary Fiction|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]<br>
Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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