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===[[Smoking Kills The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Alexander McCall Smith]]===
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Meet Fabrice ValantineLong-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. He's So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a headhunterbrand new series, and described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a successful one toonew detective named Ulf Varg, who works in an office in Paristhe Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. All around him however his world This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking stabbed in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wifethe knee, even though they met over the disappearance of an ashtrayimaginary boyfriend, and a case of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habitpotential werewolves. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces They're the prospect of having such a change crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to his own personalitydeal with, his imbued habits and lifestyleI rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with fearthe person who committed the crime, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces rather than the habit with that will surprise the mostvictim. [[Smoking Kills The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]===
A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies''[[image: a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Island by M A Bennett:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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]] <!-- Cullen Schienmel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349003289.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492667242/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa 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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: 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? 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 Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other 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 past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be... [[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen|Full Review]] <!-- O'Reilly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:147367235X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147367235X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] 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 work together in order to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as 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 takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]] <!-- Hogan -->
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Helen CullenRuth Hogan]]===
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William Woolf is a letter detectiveTilda returns to Brighton, working in to tidy away the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonremains of her mother's life after her death. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesWhilst there, tracking down mysterious she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and reading endless letters let go of lovethoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, guiltfrom this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, deathcaring, hopeand gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and everyday lifeuncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Helen CullenRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|FantasyThe Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]===
Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https[image://en4star.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressivajpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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]] <!-- Novik Rubin -->
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===[[Spinning Silver Liberation Square by Naomi NovikGareth Rubin]]===
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Miryem comes 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 long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at wall running through it at alllike a scar. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the family on the edge murder of povertyhis former wife, until Miryem must step inJane is determined to clear his name. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersIn doing so, she becomes Jane follows a person trail of great interest when she borrows a pouch corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of silver pennies from her Grandfather the state – and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… murderous secret police… [[Spinning Silver Liberation Square by Naomi NovikGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Four When You Read This by Andy JonesMary Adkins]]===
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Friends are nice, Smith Simonyi and couple friends are doubly niceIris Massey worked together for four years, giving you like minded people to spend during which time withIris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. A pair of pairs Smith, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universitymeanwhile, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historyrelied on Iris, shebut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a lot terminal cancer and died at the age of fun – thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a bit younger than blog in the rest last six months of them, an actress her life and so onher final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Four When You Read This by Andy JonesMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Vera Magpie by Stephan CollishawLaura Solomon]]===
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Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be a baby, abandoned to the birds on the kopje''I have murdered three husbands. She is there with her uncle and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw|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]] <!-- Syson Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Black Light by Lydia SysonLaura 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:4starif 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: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], 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]]
On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the mud cliffs and away into scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the sea is where we meet Jacob and EllaFar East. They share As the boy travels to the school, a bathroom in family tragedy causes the turret, old and cold and not really supposed boy to be used…but this is where they hide away from arrive at the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameschool a vulnerable orphan, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canwith an uncertain future. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just Plunged into a way school full of drowning out danger and betrayal, the arguments…but for Ella it boy is more than thatseen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. She is terrified of the seaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, of it comes to the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs boy to attempt to know clean up the pit of filth that she can survive under water. She the school has to practicebecome. [[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Long Path To Wisdom by Rebecca MakkaiJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows On my travels around the world, I have a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis tendency to end up in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985any bookshop that is selling English-language books, the reader follows Yale and his friends while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communitynext person, alongside their demonisation at what I'm really looking for is the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona'local' – the cookbook maybe, a devoted friend to Yalethe maps definitely, is searching for her estranged daughter on but above all: the streets of Parisfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, trying I won't need to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurthunt, I can read before I go. [[The Great Believers Long Path To Wisdom by Rebecca MakkaiJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Katalin Street by Dorothy KoomsonMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future.5starIn this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionKatalin Street by Magda Szabo|General FictionFull Review]]
In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity 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 and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she 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 by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton: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]]<!-- Elisabeth Hyde Mandeville -->
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Every Colour of You by Elisabeth HydeAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to arrive one Friday nightlife. He might be a retired lawyerHer world, a state legislatorlike her name, elected congressman is bursting with life and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into prolonged stay in a retirement home. Georgepsychiatric unit, he sees a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, world as 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 happengrey place. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Every Colour of You by Elisabeth HydeAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom A Spark of Sally Red Shoes Light by Ruth HoganJodi Picoult]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoThe 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. She'd been a single parent with help from her friendIt is at The Center where one man, EdwardGeorge Goddard, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his boyfriend moved out grandchild, in the immediate aftermath form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the drowningremaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still strickenhostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, feeling who soon discovers that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedat the clinic that day. [[The Particular Wisdom A Spark of Sally Red Shoes Light by Ruth HoganJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Jane Ashland Death by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)M B Vincent]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoDr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of coursethe prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, a platitude that can apply to all idyllic chocolate box town of usCastle Kidbury. Jane's lifeRather than being delighted, if anythingher family are suspicious, is going up and down in levels of pleasureespecially her father, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placethe judge. Here thenLuckily for Jess, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her days finding a Lincolnesque lover family's suspicions as a student series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in New York, glimpses the thick of therapythe investigation, a drive and to find her ancestors delight finds that takes her from rural America to Norway – she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and a trip there with a new-found friend the sense of danger moving ever closer to watch the musk oxenhome, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like has Jess made a platitude… grave mistake getting involved? [[The Gradual Disappearance Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Jane Ashland Death by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)M B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Rogers Stone -->
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Danny lives in Sasha has a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalielot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Life Son Zac is poor, but they manage - until theyentering a rebellious adolescent phase and it're threatened by a benefits sanctions hard to know how to redirect him. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the family goes far beyond what they first expect, journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannyhis unconditional love. [[Tale of a Tooth What's Left Unsaid by Allie RogersDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[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?''
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 I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpbaby. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end Many of the world and encourage humanity them simply managed to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home put one foot in Manchester to the end front of the world – where encounters with hammerother until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… natal depression[[Claudia The Place Where Love Should Be by Anthony TrevelyanElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed Hugh Mullion goes away to go. At an all time low time Dorset for both of them, the two men reconnect weekend and slowly find they're exactly what , while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back togetherof an antique chair. This is a beautiful story about friendship The grubby and what it really means torn label to help another personwhich is attached reads... [[The Man I Think I Know Amber Maze by Mike GayleChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Water Thief by Stephanie ButlandClaire Hajaj]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that take up a heart was available post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for her to have the building of a transplantchildren's hospital. 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 He has been given a new lifeno idea what he is getting himself into. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Water Thief by Stephanie ButlandClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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