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===[[What's Left Unsaid The Things That are Lost by Deborah StoneAlan Kennedy]]===
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Sasha has a lot on her plateThe 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. Husband Jeremy is distant It's stifling and absent suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the marriage needs workGermans would provide. Son Zac And where is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and itJustine? Alex hasn's hard t seen her since he went to know how ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to redirect himfind her missing. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional lovehead. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[What's Left Unsaid The Things That are Lost by Deborah StoneAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
 
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''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]]
 
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]===
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''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep[[image:5star. 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?''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
I think most women have felt What would you be like this shortly after having , right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a baby. Many 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 them simply managed Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to put the same parents, but in one foot storyline Lou is a boy, and in front of the other until 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 calmed down but some will have found it harder been in the past, how they still are, and developed post-natal depressionprompts you to think about how they could be... [[The Place Where Love Should Be Louis and Louise by Elizabeth EllisJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[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 -->|-| 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-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Amber Maze Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Christopher BowdenRuth Hogan]]===
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Hugh Mullion goes Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to Dorset the Paradise hotel, a haven for the weekend eccentrics andmisfits. A place where people can be themselves, while waiting and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for his wife to arrivebanishing her as a child, finds a mysterious key down from this place of wonder. With the back help of an antique chair. The grubby Queenie Malone, caring, and torn label gregarious, Tilda begins to which is attached reads..pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Amber Maze Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Christopher BowdenRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
===[[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, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]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?''
Nick is 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 middle love of wedding preparations when cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he decides to leave thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his fiancée behind job in East London and take up a post in but he does have to face down some unstereotypical attitudes from his pupils -named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a childrenall Jamaicans smoke weed, don's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. t they? Everybody knows that! [[The Water Thief Man Who Came to London by Claire HajajA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Liberation Square by Melissa LeetGareth Rubin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, [[: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 Americans from the fact that Susie was a year older than Jillwest. Susie lived with her motherDividing the nation between them, an alcoholicLondon soon finds itself split in two, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her gardena wall running through it like a scar. JillWhen Jane Cawson's father was Jay Tutle, husband is arrested for the photographermurder of his former wife, but he spent much of Jane is determined to clear his time working away - often for months on endname. In reality there was little difference between doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy state – and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. murderous secret police… [[Landslide Liberation Square by Melissa LeetGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks When You Read This by A N WilsonMary Adkins]]===
[[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
In a country very much like New ZealandSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, but during which time Iris left her husband at the same time most avowedly notaltar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, two women will find love. Strong love toorelied on Iris, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner but his attention was the only thing on making enough money to make sense of all those exaggerated songs shecover his mother'd heards nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbolelosing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. It He 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 – devastated when Iris developed a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but terminal cancer and died at the same time most avowedly notage of thirty three. This book then is He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the combined exploration last six months of the lovers her life and the story her final request of Smith is that he gets the quakeblog published as a book. [[Aftershocks When You Read This by A N WilsonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying downhave murdered three husbands. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|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]] <!-- C M Taylor Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Staying On Black Light by C M TaylorLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Jim 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: 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: 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: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[Staying On by C M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Redemptor Domus by Dr Nat TanohGamelyn Chase]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year oldsA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his prime concerns are listening family in the Far East. As the boy travels to what his mum calls ''hop-hip''the school, eating copious amounts of fooda family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, and learning about girlswith an uncertain future. Living in an affluent, liberal Plunged into a school full of danger and protected suburb, he has a good life. Howeverbetrayal, the suburb boy is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his seen as a trophy by friends and family are dragged enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the conflict raging around boy to attempt to clean up the dictatorship pit of filth that Saga lives under, he is forced to the school has become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Redemptor Domus by Dr Nat TanohGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration The Long Path To Wisdom by Robert LockJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows On my travels around the lives of world, I have a host of characters from 1863 tendency to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune tellerend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the talenext person, with what I'm really looking for is the mesmerising dance of starlings over 'local' – the pier acting as an anchor throughout cookbook maybe, the distinct narratives heremaps definitely, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by but above all: the seafolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[Murmuration The Long Path To Wisdom by Robert LockJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Katalin Street by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Magda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starThis 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. In 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]]
Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits 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 it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
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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: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]]<!-- Cullen Mandeville -->
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===[[The Lost Letters Every Colour of William Woolf You by Helen CullenAmelia Mandeville]]===
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William Woolf 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 letter detective, working in rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonopposite. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters Fresh out of lovehospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, guilt, death, hope, and everyday lifehe sees a world as a grey place. [[The Lost Letters Every Colour of William Woolf You by Helen CullenAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal A Spark of Light by Laura SolomonJodi Picoult]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts state of Mississippi and is the source of her body great controversy when it comes to bone when they were damagedthe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. Finally she was unable It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitasget revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the Swiss euthanasia clinicform of a mass-shooting. She'd thought What arises is a novel that would be details the lives of the endremaining hostages, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-as well as other characters central to-face with the devilstory. And that was when she made One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the pact. In exchange for details about some of those situation, who had been close soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on at the same clinic that day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Marsha's Deal A Spark of Light by Laura SolomonJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Naomi NovikM B Vincent]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the prestigious Castle family on has returned home to the edge sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of povertyCastle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, until Miryem must step inthe judge. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersLuckily for Jess, she becomes doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a person series of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather gruesome local murders are taking place and returns it full that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of goldthe investigation, soon becoming entangled and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt small population dwindling and the wood through sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made 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… grave mistake getting involved? [[Spinning Silver Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Naomi NovikM B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Jones Stone -->
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===[[Four by Andy Jones]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend time with. A pair of pairs, or Sasha has a couple of coupleslot on her plate. Married couple Sally Husband Jeremy is distant and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through absent and the marriage needs work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and though she doesnit't have their shared historys hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the rest best of themtimes. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, an actress and so onhis unconditional love. [[Four What's Left Unsaid by Andy JonesDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
===[[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?''
Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby, abandoned to the birds on the kopje. She is there with her uncle and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then Many of them simply managed to a local village where it is taken put one foot in. They do not report front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it to the police. harder and developed post-natal depression[[A Child Called Happiness The Place Where Love Should Be by Stephan CollishawElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
On a remote volcanic island off Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the coast of New Zealandweekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a family mysterious key down the back of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homeantique chair. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted The grubby and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearstorn label to which is attached reads.. 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 The Amber Maze by Lydia SysonChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Water Thief by Cassandra ParkinClaire Hajaj]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea Nick is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed middle of wedding preparations when he decides to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves leave his fiancée behind in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just London and take up a way of drowning out the arguments…but post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified of the sea, building of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under watera children's hospital. She He has to practiceno idea what he is getting himself into. [[Underwater Breathing The Water Thief by Cassandra ParkinClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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