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===[[Spinning Silver The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Naomi NovikAlexander McCall Smith]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral 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:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the 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 disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- Schienmel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349003289.jpg|link=http:Category//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492667242/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align:Teensleft;"|Teens===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all[[image:4star. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creaturesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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]] <!-- Jones Cohen -->
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===[[Four Louis and Louise by Andy JonesJulie Cohen]]===
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Friends are niceWhat would you be like, and couple friends are doubly niceright now, giving if you like minded people to spend time with. A pair 'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of pairsgenetics, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al your life would still have known Mike for ages – Sally from universityunfolded 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, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome covering the stories of Louis and though she doesn't have their shared historyLouise, born on the same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, she's and in the other a lot of fun – girl. Does it really make a bit younger than difference, the rest of themgender 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 past, how they still are, an actress and so onprompts you to think about how they could be... [[Four Louis and Louise by Andy JonesJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness M for Mammy by Stephan CollishawEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe Augustts are, like all families, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdbit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but turns out to be a babyall express that in very different ways. However, abandoned to the birds on when misfortune strikes the kopje. She is there with her uncle and family they take the child, back are forced to his farm initially and then work together in order to understand each other again, as with a local village where family as complicated as the Augustts it 's not always what is taken spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves inand takes charge. They do not report it Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the policefamily together. [[A Child Called Happiness M for Mammy by Stephan CollishawEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr PeacockQueenie Malone's Possessions Paradise Hotel by Lydia SysonRuth Hogan]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the coast remains of New Zealandher mother's life after her death. Whilst there, a family of settlers struggle she returns to make such an unforgiving place the Paradise hotel, a homehaven for eccentrics and misfits. When a ship appearsA place where people can be themselves, they feel and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a vulnerable boy disappearschild, from this place of wonder. As both settlers and newcomers come together in With the search for the childhelp of Queenie Malone, they uncover farcaring, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the island tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and those who inhabit itdistant mother. [[Mr PeacockQueenie Malone's Possessions Paradise Hotel by Lydia SysonRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
===[[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?''
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down Freddie arrives in London in the mud cliffs and away into early 2000s, answering the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellacall for teachers. They share a bathroom in He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the turretBritish system, old and cold the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from about the shouts of their parents' argumentsRiver Thames. Here they play He thinks about the Underwater Breathing gamelove of cricket and football, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canshared by both countries. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way And he thinks of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified generations of the sea, of the fact that it will come and swallow their housediaspora who came before him. She needs Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to know face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that she can survive under water. She has to practice. ! [[Underwater Breathing The Man Who Came to London by Cassandra ParkinA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Liberation Square by Rebecca MakkaiGareth Rubin]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’sIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Beginning in 1985After D-Day goes horribly wrong, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to terms with be rescued by Russian soldiers from the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityEast, alongside their demonisation at and Americans from the hands of a conservative Americawest. Thirty years later FionaDividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a devoted friend to Yale, wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is searching arrested for her estranged daughter on the streets murder of Parishis former wife, trying Jane is determined to rebuild clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a relationship beset by memories trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and old hurt. soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Great Believers Liberation Square by Rebecca MakkaiGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid When You Read This by Dorothy KoomsonMary Adkins]]===
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In 1993Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene but his attention was on the beach as theymaking enough money to cover his mother're sneaking s nursing home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womanfees in Wisconsin, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits running the girls branding agency in different waysNew York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because age of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happenedthirty three. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened He was surprised too when he discovered that night. With few leads to go on, Iris had been writing a blog in the Police closed the case without cracking it, last six months of her life and so it remains one her final request of those unsolved mysteries Smith is that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if he gets 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 seemsblog published as a book. [[The Brighton Mermaid When You Read This by Dorothy KoomsonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Vera Magpie by Lex CoultonLaura Solomon]]===
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Lex CoultonAs an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's debut novel is telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a story about mistakestreasure, failuresa keeper, and relationships. The main protagonistit's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with her best a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend Jacksonis Shirley, a work colleaguelesbian, and is grappling 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 increasingly eccentric behaviour security of her mother. This relationship life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is complicated by the fact that Franceskeen on getting an education and she's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldstudying for a degree in English Literature. [[Falling Short Vera Magpie by Lex CoultonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Black Light by Elisabeth HydeLaura 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:4if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him.5star Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired.jpg|link=Category Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:General FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|General FictionFull Review]]
Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Redemptor Domus by Ruth HoganGamelyn Chase]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been a single parent with help A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from her friend, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out family in the immediate aftermath of Far East. As the boy travels to the drowningschool, but there's now a new love interest) Masha family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is still strickenseen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal comes to the boy to Gabriel if she was attempt to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman clean up the pit of filth that the school has somehow been diminishedbecome. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Redemptor Domus by Ruth HoganGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Long Path To Wisdom by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Jan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of courseOn my travels around the world, I have a platitude that can apply tendency to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going end up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn any bookshop that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here thenis selling English-language books, scattered through a timelineand while I buy as many second-bending narrativehand escapist tales as the next person, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkwhat I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, glimpses of therapythe maps definitely, a drive but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America Burma, I won't need to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxenhunt, of all thingsI can read before I go. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Long Path To Wisdom by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Jan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Katalin Street by Allie RogersMagda Szabo]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life This is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanctionstory about the past. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation specific past, certainly, in the form of pre- war Budapest, but her also a story about how that past can impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, present and the resulting changes are described to future. In this book, the reader through first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the naive yet perceptive same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and wholly original eyes of fourreissued, we witness a heart-yearrending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-old Dannygone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[Tale of a Tooth Katalin Street by Allie RogersMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- Gayle Mandeville -->
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Every Colour of You by Mike GayleAmelia Mandeville]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men Zoe believes in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed adding life to years as well as years to golife. At an all time low time for both of themHer world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the two men reconnect and slowly find theysort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree''re exactly what as she calls him) is the other needsopposite. TogetherFresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, they help each other put their lives back together. This is he sees a world as a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another persongrey place. [[The Man I Think I Know Every Colour of You by Mike GayleAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart A Spark of Ailsa Rae Light by Stephanie ButlandJodi Picoult]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and just as she was edging closer is the source of great controversy when it comes to death she finallythe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, finally got George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the call that she neededloss of his grandchild, that in the form of a heart was available for her to have mass-shooting. What arises is a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless novel that she had used her blog to make decisions for herdetails the lives of the remaining hostages, running polls amongst her readers as well as other characters central to decide on her actionsthe story. But with her new heartOne of these characters is Hugh McElroy, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage hostage negotiator called in to start to live on her ownhelp deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and will her mother let her do daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that? day. [[The Curious Heart A Spark of Ailsa Rae Light by Stephanie ButlandJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Stefan MohamedM B Vincent]]===
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When your best friend vanishesDr Jess Castle, how can you begin the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home 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 daythe sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, even seven years after especially her best friend Mark vanishedfather, the judge. When he reappearsLuckily for Jess, shedoesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearances all anyone is talking about. ShockedJess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravesdelight finds that she can actually be useful. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either with the small population dwindling and the sense of them could danger moving ever have dreamt… closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Falling Leaves Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Stefan MohamedM B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Stone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789014921.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789014921/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, 'Edward is six weeks old and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty motherI’ve had no sleep. The home is called a CottageI had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and while itch. They had to do 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-stitches twice because thefirst lot became infected. The old-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 midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to calm the kids downpersonal hygiene. CharlieI must shower twice a day, despite his obvious bookish intelligenceor better still, is struggling take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to get do that? Have they ever tried to grips with why shower when a baby is crying and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, you’re so tired you can barely stand and the fact he your partner 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 banging around downstairs because he’s late for work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]again?''
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Simsion Bowden -->
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
When I read Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the blurb weekend and, while waiting for this bookhis wife to arrive, I found myself instantly interested in its premise finds a mysterious key down the back of two people trying an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to start their lives again following serious life changeswhich is attached reads.. The book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward The Amber Maze by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Water Thief by Gayle FormanClaire Hajaj]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way[[image:4star. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written noveljpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York City. [[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman:Category:Literary Fiction|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]
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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