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===[[Falling Short The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Lex CoultonAlexander McCall Smith]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Kennedy -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align:center;"|[[image:0993202349.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993202349/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:Humour|Humour{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]], [[:Category:Women's General Fiction|Women's General Fiction]]
Lex CoultonThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failuresWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and relationshipsfeels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, And where is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with her best friend JacksonJohn Cabot, a work colleagueinstigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of her motherhis head. This relationship is complicated by Has she left the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when service? Does she know too much? Is she was five years old. even still alive? [[Falling Short The Things That are Lost by Lex CoultonAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer A Danger to Herself and Others by Elisabeth HydeAlyssa Sheinmel]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury. [[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]] <!-- Cohen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1409179826.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1409179826/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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Eighty| style="vertical-onealign: top; text-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday nightalign: left;"|===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]=== [[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? He might Would it simply be a retired lawyermatter of genetics, a state legislatorand 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 Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, elected congressman covering the stories of Louis and now an amateur farmer Louise, born on the same day, to the same parents, but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, in one storyline Lou is a corporate lawyerboy, would find fault and want to talk about him going into in the other a retirement homegirl. George, Does it really make a nursedifference, would argue the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and Lizziewomen are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, a professor of English Literaturehow they still are, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would prompts you to think about how they could be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen.. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Louis and Louise by Elisabeth HydeJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes M for Mammy by Ruth HoganEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoThe 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. She'd been a single parent with help from her friendHowever, Edwardwhen misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, who had grieved as much with a family as complicated as Masha the Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath takes charge. Full of the drowningstern words and common sense, but thereshe's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal force of nature who must try her hardest to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedhold the family together. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes M for Mammy by Ruth HoganEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Ruth Hogan]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of courseTilda returns to Brighton, a platitude that can apply to all tidy away the remains of us. Janeher mother's lifeafter her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, if anythinga haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, is going up and down in levels let go of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn thoughts that it recently found a very deeply dark down placetorment them elsewhere. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkchild, glimpses from this place of wonder. With the help of therapyQueenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, a drive Tilda begins to find her ancestors that takes pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her from rural America to Norway – sometimes cruel and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all thingsdistant mother. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:5star4star.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?''
Danny lives Freddie arrives in a small Sussex town with his motherLondon in the early 2000s, Natalieanswering the call for teachers. Life is poorHe thinks about his own Jamaican education, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact based on the family goes far beyond what they first expectBritish system, and the resulting changes are described to way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the reader through River Thames. He thinks about the naive yet perceptive love of cricket and wholly original eyes football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of fourthe 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 -year-old Danny. all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[Tale of a Tooth The Man Who Came to London by Allie RogersA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Liberation Square by Anthony TrevelyanGareth Rubin]]===
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When Claudia In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is called first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorEast, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsand Americans from the west. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonDividing the nation between them, The Aztec and The Sun KingLondon soon finds itself split in two, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as wall running through it like a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpscar. Reggie, SamsonWhen Jane Cawson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare husband is arrested for the end murder of the world and encourage humanity his former wife, Jane is determined to embrace their impending doomclear his name. Claudia's journey takes In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her far from her home in Manchester right to the end highest levels of the world state – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Claudia Liberation Square by Anthony TrevelyanGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know When You Read This by Mike GayleMary Adkins]]===
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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]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeAs 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 just as it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was edging closer likely to death get found out very quickly and now she finally's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, finally got the call that she neededa lesbian, that a heart was available for her but Vera's not one to have let herself be a transplantvictim. Previously She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she had felt so helpless that she had used wouldn't risk the security of her blog to make decisions life in prison for herthe sake of a fling), running polls amongst her readers to decide but she is keen on her actions. But with her new heart, getting an education and she has been given 's studying for a new lifedegree in English Literature. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Vera Magpie by Stephanie ButlandLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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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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===[[Two Steps Forward The Long Path To Wisdom by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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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]] <!-- 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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
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]]<!-- Walton Stone -->
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===[[Ask For Blues by Malcolm Walton]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|AutobiographyGeneral 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, [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]]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. [[:Category:General FictionWhat's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|General FictionFull Review]]
Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but he has chosen to write it in the form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle, and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues by Malcolm Walton|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Ellis -->
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===[[The Boat People by Sharon Bala]]===
===[[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?''
Among the 500 Sri Lankans in a rickety boat making its way to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellian. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custody, placing the I think most women and children in have felt like this shortly after having a separate facility from the menbaby. A gruelling series of hearings will decide on the fate Many of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed them simply managed to stay put one foot in Canada, or deported back to Sri Lanka. The government fears that up to half front of these asylum-seekers may have links to the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group, so judges are instructed to other until things calmed down but some will have a firm hand. found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Boat People Place Where Love Should Be by Sharon BalaElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Cathal Flood is an old, belligerent man, living in a filthy, crowded house that was once a family home. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic is employed Hugh Mullion goes away to look after Dorset for the ancient Cathalweekend and, she assumes she'll just be the next in a long line of short-term dogsbodies while waiting for the old man. Insteadhis wife to arrive, Maud finds herself drawn into a mysterious key down the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – back of an antique chair. The grubby and as Maud begins torn label to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfwhich is attached reads... 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… [[The Hoarder Amber Maze by Jess KiddChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu The Water Thief by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiClaire Hajaj]]===
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''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness. In just a few pages a man has been hunted down by an angry mob Nick is in Uganda. He is then brained with a concrete slab; the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his woman is left fiancée behind in widowhood London and has take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the hard task building of dealing with her mana children's debthospital. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generationsHe has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[Kintu The Water Thief by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]<br>
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