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===[[Four The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Andy JonesAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend Long-time with. A pair followers of pairs, or The Bookbag will know I'm a couple die-hard fan of couplesAMS. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike 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 ages – Sally from universitySensitive Crimes, Al through worksolving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot case of fun – a bit younger than potential werewolves. They're the rest of crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, an actress and so onespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. [[Four The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Andy JonesAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a baby, abandoned prison to Alex as anything the birds on the kopjeGermans would provide. She And where is there Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with her uncle and they take John Cabot, instigator of the childdisinformation campaign, back to his farm initially and then returned to a local village where it find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is taken inquite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. They do not report it to Has she left the police. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[A Child Called Happiness The Things That are Lost by Stephan CollishawAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Danger to Herself and Others by Lydia SysonAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle ''They needed someone to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsblame, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated 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 – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsor so her parents tell her. As both settlers and newcomers come together She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both most sophisticated corners of the island globe and those who inhabit itlived a life of luxury. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Danger to Herself and Others by Lydia SysonAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Louis and Louise by Cassandra ParkinJulie Cohen]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and away into your life would still have unfolded in the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. same way? They share a bathroom 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 turretabove, old covering the stories of Louis and cold and not really supposed Louise, born on the same day, to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their same parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the water holding their breath for as long as they canother a girl. For sixteen year old Jacob Does it's just really make a way of drowning out difference, the arguments…but for Ella it gender box that is more than ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that. She is terrified of men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the seapast, how they still are, of the fact that it will come and swallow their houseprompts you to think about how they could be. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing Louis and Louise by Cassandra ParkinJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers M for Mammy by Rebecca MakkaiEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows Augustts are, like all families, a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in Chicago during the late 1980’svery different ways. Beginning in 1985However, when misfortune strikes the reader follows Yale and his friends as family they come are forced to work together in order to terms understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the hands most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionastern words and common sense, she's a devoted friend force of nature who must try her hardest to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on hold the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtfamily together. [[The Great Believers M for Mammy by Rebecca MakkaiEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Dorothy KoomsonRuth Hogan]]===
[[image:45star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder.5starWith the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- Cookson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0955489059.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955489059/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[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?''
In 1993Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womanBritish system, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the girls in different waysRiver Thames. Nell becomes obsessed with finding He thinks about the identity love 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 cricket and Nell is still haunted football, shared by what happened that nightboth countries. With few leads to go on, And he thinks of the Police closed generations of the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but Nell struggles he does have to let sleeping dogsface down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one don't they? Everybody knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she 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 seems. ! [[The Brighton Mermaid Man Who Came to London by Dorothy KoomsonA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Liberation Square by Lex CoultonGareth Rubin]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is a story about mistakes, failuresfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and relationshipsAmericans from the west. The main protagonistDividing the nation between them, Frances PilgrimLondon soon finds itself split in two, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, wall running through it like a work colleaguescar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, and Jane is grappling with determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the increasingly eccentric behaviour highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. murderous secret police… [[Falling Short Liberation Square by Lex CoultonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer When You Read This by Elisabeth HydeMary Adkins]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday nightaltar on their wedding day. He might be a retired lawyerSmith, meanwhile, a state legislatorrelied on Iris, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruthhis attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, a corporate lawyer, would find fault running the branding agency in New York and want to talk about losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him going into a retirement home. George, He was devastated when Iris developed a nurse, would argue terminal cancer and Lizzie, a professor died at the age of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictablethirty three. Murray hoped He was surprised too when he discovered that all would go smoothly, but Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that simply wasn't going to happenhe gets the blog published as a book. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer When You Read This by Elisabeth HydeMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Vera Magpie by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon]]===
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Masha''I have murdered three husbands.'' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's son Gabriel died some years agotelling us the truth. SheThe 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'd been s in prison with a single parent with help from her mandatory life sentence. Her only friendis Shirley, Edwarda lesbian, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (his boyfriend moved out she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the immediate aftermath sake of the drowninga fling), but thereshe is keen on getting an education and she's now studying for a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminisheddegree in English Literature. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Vera Magpie by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Black Light by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek.5star His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father.jpg|link=Category His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:Categorythe 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:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:Literary FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|Literary FictionFull Review]]
Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Redemptor Domus by Allie RogersGamelyn Chase]]===
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Danny lives A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a small Sussex town vulnerable orphan, with his motheran uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, Natalie. Life the boy is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened seen as a trophy by a benefits sanctionfriends and enemies alike. A Job Centre employee looks to be With them locked into their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expectscheming and plotting, and it comes to the resulting changes are described boy to attempt to clean up the reader through pit of filth that the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannyschool has become. [[Tale of a Tooth Redemptor Domus by Allie RogersGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia The Long Path To Wisdom by Anthony TrevelyanJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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When Claudia is called to On my travels around the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet world, I have a visitor, she doesn't expect it tendency to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggiethe next person, Samsonwhat I's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantulam really looking for is the 'local'– the cookbook maybe, a group who prepare for the end of maps definitely, but above all: the world and encourage humanity folk tales. If I ever get to embrace their impending doom. ClaudiaBurma, I won's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester t need to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… hunt, I can read before I go. [[Claudia The Long Path To Wisdom by Anthony TrevelyanJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Katalin Street by Mike GayleMagda Szabo]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both the form of thempre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the two men reconnect present and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsfuture. TogetherIn this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, they help each other put their lives back together. This is we witness a beautiful story heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about friendship those who did not survive, and what a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it really means to help into another person, subtler misery. [[The Man I Think I Know Katalin Street by Mike GayleMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
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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 have a transplant[[image:4star. 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? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland: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]]<!-- 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]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[Every Colour of You by Amelia Mandeville|Full Review]] <!-- Mohamed Picoult -->
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===[[Falling Leaves A Spark of Light by Stefan MohamedJodi Picoult]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that day. [[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult|Full Review]] <!-- Vincent -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471168239.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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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[[image:4star. 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 himjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], 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:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Santorella Stone -->
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
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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 is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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]] <!-- Simsion Ellis -->
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===[[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?''
When I read the blurb for think most women have felt like this book, I found myself instantly interested shortly after having a baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in its premise front of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappoint. the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[Two Steps Forward The Place Where Love Should Be by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''I Have Lost My Way'' tells Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voiceweekend and, Harun has lost while waiting for his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howeverwife to arrive, these three elements do not give justice to finds a mysterious key down the extent back of what each character has lostan antique chair. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came The grubby and torn label to lose what was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Citywhich is attached reads... [[I Have Lost My Way The Amber Maze by Gayle FormanChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Water Thief by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Claire Hajaj]]===
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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 Nick is in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in any quantity. What happens London and take up a post 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, midsome un-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, named west African country providing engineering support for that is the road marker where one building of our main characters sees ita children's hospital. 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 no idea what 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 getting himself into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Water Thief by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Claire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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