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===[[The Water Thief Department of Sensitive Crimes by Claire HajajAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Nick is 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 middle of wedding preparations when he decides author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a post new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in some un-named west African country providing engineering support the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the building 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 childrencase of potential werewolves. They's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself intore 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 Water Thief Department of Sensitive Crimes by Claire HajajAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide by Melissa Leet]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[Landslide by Melissa Leet|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- Wilson Schienmel -->
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===[[Aftershocks A Danger to Herself and Others by A N WilsonAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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In a country very much like New Zealand''They needed someone to blame, but at and I was the same time most avowedly not, two women will find loveonly available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner Playing the scapegoat was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs sheleast I could do under the circumstances.'d heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurchher parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, but at explored the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration sophisticated corners of the lovers globe and the story lived a life of the quakeluxury. [[Aftershocks A Danger to Herself and Others by A N WilsonAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Louis and Louise by Laura SolomonJulie Cohen]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[MarshaWhat would you be like, right now, if you's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] d been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and I was delighted 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 opportunity to read above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the sequelsame day, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''same parents, but the devil in one storyline Lou is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth a boy, and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as in the other a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)girl. Although Does it really make a strong persondifference, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel the gender box that is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. ticked when we arrive in this world? Then, of course there are We all the other children who know that men and women are not only targetedtreated differently, but - worst of all - subverted to this story really highlights how things have been in the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster childrenpast, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operationhow they still are, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator and prompts you to Hellthink about how they could be... [[Hell's Unveiling Louis and Louise by Laura SolomonJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On M for Mammy by C M TaylorEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestThe Augustts are, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to beall families, a bit complicated. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectA loving irish family, their love binds them together – but he's living all express that in a mountain village just beyond very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like family they are forced to sell it and return work together in order to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the UK, Augustts it's not always what with is spoken that makes the uncertainty most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of Brexit stern words and everythingcommon sense, but there are she's a couple force of problemsnature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. First off, his wife [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]] <!-- Hogan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical- Laney align: top; text- refuses align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to go back Brighton, to tidy away the UKremains of her mother's life after her death. She'd have you believe that Whilst there, she's not wellreturns to the Paradise hotel, but there's a backstory there haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that's not being talked abouttorment them elsewhere. Then there's the pubLittle wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, which isn't doing well enough to sellfrom this place of wonder. In fact Tony's cleaning With the swimming pools help of expats who have left Spain Queenie Malone, caring, and returned homegregarious, in order Tilda begins to make a bit of money to try pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetdistant mother. [[Staying On Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by C M TaylorRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Day of the Orphan Man Who Came to London by Dr Nat TanohA S Cookson]]===
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Saga is eighteen and''In 1948, like many eighteen-year oldsthe 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, his prime concerns are listening forcing them to what his mum calls quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''hop-hipDoes he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living  Freddie arrives in London in an affluentthe early 2000s, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good lifeanswering the call for teachers. HoweverHe thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the suburb is in AfricaBritish system, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the dictatorship that Saga lives underlove of cricket and football, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryshared by both countries. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead thinks of the soldiers desperate generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to stop himface down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Day of the Orphan Man Who Came to London by Dr Nat TanohA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Liberation Square by Robert LockGareth Rubin]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows 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 lives of a host of characters East, and Americans from 1863 to the present daywest. From Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a risqué comic to wall running through it like a fortune teller, we see scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the birth murder of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourhis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. There is In doing so, Jane follows a hint trail of mysticism corruption that leads her right to the tale, with the mesmerising dance highest levels of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of lives captivated by the sea. murderous secret police… [[Murmuration Liberation Square by Robert LockGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills When You Read This by Antoine Laurain Mary Adkins]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Smith Simonyi and Louise RogersIris 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, but 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 terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. 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 book. [[When You Read This by Mary Adkins|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-Lalaurie (translator)align: center;"|[[image:1512235857.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1512235857/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine''I have murdered three husbands. He'' 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 headhunterkeeper, and a successful one tooit'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 an office in Parisprison with a mandatory life sentence. All around him however his world Her only friend is changing – yesShirley, a lesbian, there is but Vera's not one to let herself be a new ban victim. She's not keen on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees having a hypnotist who had success sexual relationship with a mutual friend Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces prison for the prospect sake of having such a change to his own personalityfling), his imbued habits but she is keen on getting an education and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but itshe's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the moststudying for a degree in English Literature. [[Smoking Kills Vera Magpie by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Black Light by M A BennettLaura 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:Teens|Teens]], 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]]
A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': 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... [[The Island by M A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Redemptor Domus by Helen CullenGamelyn Chase]]===
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William Woolf is a letter detectiveA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, working sent far from his family in the Dead Letters Depot in Far East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesAs the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, tracking down mysterious people with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and reading endless letters of lovebetrayal, guiltthe boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, death, hope, and everyday lifeit comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Redemptor Domus by Helen CullenGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal The Long Path To Wisdom by Laura SolomonJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life On my travels around the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]world, I have a rare disease which turned parts of her body tendency to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life end up in any longer bookshop that is selling English-language books, and went to Dignitaswhile I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be local' – the cookbook maybe, the endmaps definitely, 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 above all: the pactfolk tales. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close If I ever get to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day Burma, I won't need to the same parentshunt, but would live her life free of diseaseI can read before I go. [[Marsha's Deal The Long Path To Wisdom by Laura SolomonJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Katalin Street by Naomi NovikMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. 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 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… [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik|Full Review]]
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 ===[[Four Santa Goes on Strike by Andy JonesJem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For 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]]===
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Friends are niceZoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, and couple friends are doubly nicelike her name, giving you like minded people to spend time is bursting withlife and colour. A pair She is the sort of pairs, or girl who would sing a couple of couplesrainbow is she could. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesnTristan (or ''Tree''t have their shared history, as she's calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a lot of fun – prolonged stay in a bit younger than the rest of thempsychiatric unit, an actress and so onhe sees a world as a grey place. [[Four Every Colour of You by Andy JonesAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Spark of Light by Stephan CollishawJodi Picoult]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe 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, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdGeorge Goddard, but turns out takes it upon himself to be get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a babynovel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, abandoned as well as other characters central to the birds on the kopjestory. She One of these characters is there with her uncle and they take Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the childsituation, back to who soon discovers that his farm initially sister and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it daughter, Wren, happened to be at the policeclinic that day. [[A Child Called Happiness Spark of Light by Stephan CollishawJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Lydia SysonM B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home[[image:4star. When a ship appearsjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], 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: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]]<!-- Parkin Stone -->
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and away into the sea marriage needs work. Son Zac is where we meet Jacob entering a rebellious adolescent phase and Ellait's hard to know how to redirect him. They share a bathroom in Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the turret, old journey into dementia and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from has never been an easy person at the shouts best of their parents' argumentstimes. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameThank heavens for her lovely dog, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified of the seaSebastian, of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practicehis unconditional love. [[Underwater Breathing What's Left Unsaid by Cassandra ParkinDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT General Fiction|LGBT 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?''
''The Great Believers'' follows I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a group baby. Many of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis them simply managed to put one foot in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands front of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and old hurt. developed post-natal depression[[The Great Believers Place Where Love Should Be by Rebecca MakkaiElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
In 1993Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, two teenagers stumble across finds a horrific scene on mysterious key down the beach as they're sneaking home after back of an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedantique chair. 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 grubby 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 torn label 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 which isattached reads. 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 Amber Maze by Dorothy KoomsonChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short The Water Thief by Lex CoultonClaire Hajaj]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel Nick is a story about mistakes, failures, in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, take up a work colleague, and is grappling with post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the increasingly eccentric behaviour building of her mothera children's hospital. This relationship He has no idea what he is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldgetting himself into. [[Falling Short The Water Thief by Lex CoultonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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