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===[[A Spark The Department of Light Sensitive Crimes by Jodi PicoultAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Long-time followers of The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateAMS. It is So you can imagine my excitement at The Center where one manreading a brand new book in a brand new series, George Goddard, takes it upon described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to get revenge Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for the loss of his grandchildSensitive Crimes, in solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the form of a mass-shootingusual police parameters. What arises This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is a novel that details the lives of stabbed in the remaining hostagesknee, as well as other characters central to the story. One disappearance of these characters is Hugh McElroyan imaginary boyfriend, and a hostage negotiator called in case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to help deflate deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the situationstabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wrencommitted the crime, happened to be at rather than the clinic that dayvictim. [[A Spark The Department of Light Sensitive Crimes by Jodi PicoultAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
===[[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? [[:Category:CrimeThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|CrimeFull Review]]
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]]<!-- Stone Schienmel -->
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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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Sasha has What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant matter of genetics, and absent 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 marriage needs work. Son Zac same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is entering a rebellious adolescent phase boy, and in the other a girl. Does it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholicreally make a difference, the gender box that is beginning the journey into dementia ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and has never women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been an easy person at in the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dogpast, Sebastianhow they still are, and his unconditional loveprompts you to think about how they could be... [[What's Left Unsaid Louis and Louise by Deborah StoneJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
 
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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]]
 
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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 perineumjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], 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[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], 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?''[[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
I think most women have felt like this shortly Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after having her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a babyhaven for eccentrics and misfits. Many A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them simply managed elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to put one foot in front of pick apart the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder tricky and developed post-natal depressionuncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Place Where Love Should Be Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Elizabeth EllisRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze Man Who Came to London by Christopher BowdenA S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.''
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for Freddie arrives in London in the weekend andearly 2000s, while waiting answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his wife to arriveown Jamaican education, based on the British system, finds a mysterious key down and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the back love of an antique chair. The grubby cricket and torn label to which is attached reads.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 Amber Maze Man Who Came to London by Christopher BowdenA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Liberation Square by Claire HajajGareth Rubin]]===
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Nick In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is in first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London East, and take up a post in some un-named Americans from the west African country providing engineering support for . Dividing the building of nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a childrenscar. When Jane Cawson's hospital. He has no idea what he husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is getting himself intodetermined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Water Thief Liberation Square by Claire HajajGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide When You Read This by Melissa LeetMary Adkins]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.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]]
Smith 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, 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]] <!-- Wilson Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Aftershocks Vera Magpie by A N WilsonLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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In a country very much like New ZealandAs an opening line that must take some beating, but at Vera's telling us the same time most avowedly nottruth. The first two husbands, two women will find love. Strong love tooGary and Harry were abusive, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner but Larry was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd hearda treasure, a keeper, and books and poems sheit'd reads difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and plays now she'd acted s in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboleprison with a mandatory life sentence. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but it does burgeon, or so weVera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn're promised from t risk the off, because security of her life in prison for the sake of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurchfling), but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then she is the combined exploration of the lovers keen on getting an education and the story of the quakeshe's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Aftershocks Vera Magpie by A N WilsonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star.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]] Jim is a university student and I was delighted by , as the opportunity to read the sequelsaying goes, he hasn''Hellt got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's Unveiling''never really managed to connect with his step-father. ItHis younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you's probably not much of a spoiler to d just say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''he was very difficult, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying downJim does his best with and for him. HeJim's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although love with a strong personwoman, but she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit finds him repulsive and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Thenyou can understand why: the looks, of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedattitude, but - worst the (lack of ) conversational ability and the clothing all - subverted leave a lot to the devilbe desired. Despite all that's evil ends. Hehe's out not about to prey on their fears sit back and weaknesses allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hellpub. [[Hell's Unveiling Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Redemptor Domus by C M TaylorGamelyn Chase]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, Yorkshire's where he'd really like sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectthe school, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond family tragedy causes the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return boy to arrive at the UKschool a vulnerable orphan, what with the uncertainty an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of Brexit danger and everythingbetrayal, 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 boy is seen as a backstory there that's not being talked abouttrophy by friends and enemies alike. Then there's the pubWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, which isn't doing well enough it comes to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order boy to make a bit of money attempt to try and make ends at least come in sight clean up the pit of each other, even if they never meetfilth that the school has become. [[Staying On Redemptor Domus by C M TaylorGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Long Path To Wisdom by Dr Nat TanohJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Saga On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is eighteen selling English-language books, and, like while I buy as many eighteensecond-year oldshand escapist tales as the next person, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls I'm really looking for is the 'hop-hip'local'– the cookbook maybe, eating copious amounts of foodthe maps definitely, and learning about girlsbut above all: the folk tales. Living in an affluent If I ever get to Burma, liberal and protected suburbI won't need to hunt, he has a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods I can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryread before I go. 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 Long Path To Wisdom by Dr Nat TanohJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Katalin Street by Robert LockMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:3starThis 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]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. [[:Category:Historical FictionKatalin Street by Magda Szabo|Historical FictionFull Review]]
''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]]
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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]]
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]]<!-- Bennett Mandeville -->
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===[[The Island Every Colour of You by M A BennettAmelia Mandeville]]===
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A contemporary take on 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 savage classic sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Lord of the FliesTree'': 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 as she calls him) is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney Schoolopposite. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind Fresh out 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 hospital following a prolonged stay in yearsa psychiatric unit, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..sees a world as a grey place. [[The Island Every Colour of You by M A BennettAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters A Spark of William Woolf Light by Helen CullenJodi Picoult]]===
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William Woolf The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is a letter detectiveat The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonform of a mass-shooting. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesWhat arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters as well as other characters central to the story. One of lovethese characters is Hugh McElroy, guilta hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, deathwho soon discovers that his sister and daughter, hopeWren, and everyday lifehappened to be at the clinic that day. [[The Lost Letters A Spark of William Woolf Light by Helen CullenJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Laura SolomonM B Vincent]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the first time aroundsleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, a rare disease which turned parts of especially her body to bone when they were damagedfather, the judge. Finally Luckily for Jess, she was unable doesn't have to stand try too hard to dodge her life any longer family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and went to Dignitas, that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be thick of the endinvestigation, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And her delight finds that was when she made can actually be useful. But with the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths small population dwindling and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day sense of danger moving ever closer to the same parentshome, but would live her life free of disease. has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Marsha's Deal Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Laura SolomonM B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Novik Stone -->
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Miryem comes from Sasha has a long line of moneylenders – but lot on her Father isn't very good at it at allplate. Lending freely Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step inmarriage needs work. Hardening her heart and collecting what Son Zac is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows entering a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather rebellious adolescent phase and returns it full of gold's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creaturesalcoholic, from is beginning the dark beings that haunt journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that best of times. Thank heavens for her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[Spinning Silver What's Left Unsaid by Naomi NovikDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Four by Andy Jones]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''
Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you I think most women have felt like minded people to spend time withthis shortly after having a baby. A pair Many of pairs, or a couple them simply managed to put one foot in front of couples. Married couple Sally and Al the other until things calmed down but some will have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than the rest of them, an actress found it harder and so on. developed post-natal depression[[Four The Place Where Love Should Be by Andy JonesElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
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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. 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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]] <!-- Syson Hajaj -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Water Thief by Lydia SysonClaire Hajaj]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off Nick is in the coast middle of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle wedding preparations when he decides to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted leave his fiancée behind in London and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when take up a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together post in the search some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit itbuilding of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Water Thief by Lydia SysonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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