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===[[Spinning Silver American Royals by Naomi NovikKatharine McGee]]===
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Miryem comes from Two and a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at allhalf centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Lending freely and rarely collectingToday, he leaves the family House of Washington still sit on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step thrown with Princess Beatrice next inline. Hardening Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her heart ruling the United States 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 time for her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… reign is imminent. [[Spinning Silver American Royals by Naomi NovikKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Four The Girl at the Window by Andy JonesRowan Coleman]]===
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Friends are niceTrudy Heaton is going home, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend time with. A pair of pairs, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al house where her roots burrow back through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome the centuries and though to a mother she doesnhasn't have their shared historyspoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she's a lot can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of fun – a bit younger her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the rest house full of themlight and shadow, an actress and so on. that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[Four The Girl at the Window by Andy JonesRowan Coleman|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness We Are Not Okay by Stephan CollishawNatalia Gomes]]===
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Mazowe ValleySet in a typical American town, 2011 – Natalie hears ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdgirl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, but turns out to be a babyTrina and Sophia, abandoned whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to the birds on the kopjesworn enemies. She The reader is there presented with her uncle a glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and they take at times the childthoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, back particularly in relation to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken inthe ''Me Too Movement''. They do not report it to ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the policeimportance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[A Child Called Happiness We Are Not Okay by Stephan CollishawNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Lydia SysonKate Tough]]===
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On Life has just hidden behind a remote volcanic island off corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the coast of New Zealandsentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Well, a she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and family , but it's not the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homecouple. When So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a ship appears, they feel world that their wishes have been granted bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when there's a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together lot of difference between being in the search for middle of your twenties and the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit itmiddle of your thirties. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Lydia SysonKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Equator by Cassandra ParkinAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house It strikes me that will sooner rather than later tumble down nobody can speak well of the mud cliffs and away into Wild West outside the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellawalls of a theme park. They share Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a bathroom in the turretbuffalo hunt, old and cold who hates the way man – and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the shouts bat of their parents' argumentsan eyelid. Here they play But this book is about so much more than the Underwater Breathing game1870s USA, submerging themselves in and the water holding their breath for as long as they canattendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. For sixteen year old Jacob itHe finds himself trying to find this book's just a way version of drowning out Utopia, namely the arguments…but for Ella it Equator, where everything is more than that. She is terrified of upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the seaanti-gravity, of the fact that it will come and swallow their housewhere, who knows, things might actually be better. She needs to know But that she can survive under water. She has to practice. equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Underwater Breathing Equator by Cassandra ParkinAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Needlemouse by Rebecca MakkaiJane O'Connor]]===
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We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, not because it''The Great Believers'' follows a group s her birthday but because of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during special time she gets to spend with the late 1980’sman she loves. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale He's told her that he and his friends as they come wife are going to terms with divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative AmericaProf will then declare his love and they can be together. Thirty years later Fiona She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, a devoted friend but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets sexual part of Paris, trying to rebuild a the relationship beset by memories and old hurt. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[The Great Believers Needlemouse by Rebecca MakkaiJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Vintage 1954 by Dorothy KoomsonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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In 1993Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, two teenagers stumble across before deciding to run with them and formulate a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after plot. So we have an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womanAmerican biker, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls just landing in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed Paris but unfortunately not with finding the identity wife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. We have a goth girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happenedcocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that nightWe also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. With few leads Finally something conspires to go onget them together, and drinking from the Police closed the case without cracking itsame bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that become part of local folklorealso features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if and walked out the discovery still haunts her because no door one knows where she is. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappearedrainy morning, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay PrideBut of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, it seems. though – will they? [[The Brighton Mermaid Vintage 1954 by Dorothy KoomsonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Lex CoultonFelicity McLean]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, When Tikka Molloy was eleven and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a one-sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jacksonyears old, a work colleaguethe Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the long hot summer of 1992, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour in an isolated suburb of her mother. This relationship is complicated Australia surrounded by Bushland, the fact that Francesgirls vanished during the school's father disappeared Showstopper concert at sea when the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, they were never found. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she was five years oldnever forgot. [[Falling Short The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Lex CoultonFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Elisabeth HydeAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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EightyLong-onetime followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the best when he waited for his three children author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to arrive one Friday night. Scandi Noir)! He might be Here we meet a retired lawyernew detective named Ulf Varg, a state legislatorwho works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew solving those crimes that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedperhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. RuthThis particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, a corporate lawyerthe disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement homecase of potential werewolves. GeorgeThey're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, a nurse, would argue and LizzieI rather enjoyed them, a professor of English Literatureespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who lived locally and kept and visited him regularlycommitted the crime, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happenrather than the victim. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Elisabeth HydeAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan]]===
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MashaThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's son Gabriel died some years agoWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. SheIt'd been a single parent with help from her friend, Edward, who had grieved s stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in anything the immediate aftermath 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 drowningdisinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but there's now a new love interest) Masha no Justine is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happyquite another. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedAlex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Things That are Lost by Ruth HoganAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Danger to Herself and Others by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also'They needed someone to blame, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of usand I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placeor so her parents tell her. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student She has dined in New Yorkfancy restaurants, glimpses explored the most sophisticated corners of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – the globe and lived a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, life of all thingsluxury. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Danger to Herself and Others by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Louis and Louise by Allie RogersJulie Cohen]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his motherWhat would you be like, Natalie. Life is poorright now, but they manage - until theyif you're threatened 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 a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to be their salvation - the same parents, but her impact on in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the family goes far beyond what they first expectother 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 resulting changes past, how they still are described , and prompts you to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannythink about how they could be... [[Tale of a Tooth Louis and Louise by Allie RogersJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia M for Mammy by Anthony TrevelyanEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet The Augustts are, like all families, a visitorbit complicated. A loving irish family, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure their love binds them together – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsbut all express that in very different ways. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonHowever, The Aztec and The Sun Kingwhen misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, walked out of Claudia's life and into as with a world of success family as complicated as a solar panel salesman – but now hethe Augustts it's returned not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and he needs Claudia's helptakes charge. ReggieFull of stern words and common sense, Samsonshe's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group force of nature who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes must try her far from her home in Manchester hardest to hold the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… family together. [[Claudia M for Mammy by Anthony TrevelyanEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Mike GayleRuth Hogan]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives havenTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother't taken them where they were supposed to gos life after her death. At an all time low time for both of themWhilst there, she returns to the two men reconnect Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsmisfits. TogetherA place where people can be themselves, they help each other put their lives back togetherand let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. This is Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a beautiful story about friendship child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and what it really means gregarious, Tilda begins to help another personpick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Man I Think I Know Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Mike GayleRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life''In 1948, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a heart was available for her ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to have a transplantfind housing. They worked as labourers. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for herThey faced open discrimination, running polls amongst her readers forcing them to decide on her actionsquickly form their own community. But with her new heartDecades later, she has been given a new lifeFreddy makes the same journey. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]''
''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]] <!-- Mohamed Rubin -->
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===[[Falling Leaves Liberation Square by Stefan MohamedGareth Rubin]]===
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When your best friend vanishesIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, how can you begin Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every daytwo, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanisheda wall running through it like a scar. When he reappears, sheJane Cawson's shocked not only by husband is arrested for the murder of his presence back in her lifeformer wife, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since Jane is determined to clear his disappearancename. ShockedIn doing so, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her home town in order right to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of them could ever have dreamt… the murderous secret police… [[Falling Leaves Liberation Square by Stefan MohamedGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls When You Read This by Gary SantorellaMary Adkins]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, Smith Simonyi and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-outIris Massey worked together for four years, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while during which time Iris left her husband at the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, altar on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downwedding day. Charlie Smith, despite his obvious bookish intelligencemeanwhile, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he isrelied on Iris, but it must have something his attention was on making enough money to do with cover his single parent mother being violent's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfatherpressures got too much for him. This book is He was devastated when Iris developed a slightly woozy look terminal cancer and died at his thoughts, as the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he tries to build discovered that Iris had been writing a relationship with a girl blog in a different Cottage, the last six months of her life and work out his lot. He certainly has her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldbook. [[Dyed Souls When You Read This by Gary SantorellaMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Vera Magpie by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistLaura Solomon]]===
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When I read As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the blurb for this booktruth. 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, I particularly when she was likely to get found myself instantly interested out very quickly and now she's in its premise of two people trying prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to start their lives again following serious life changeslet herself be a victim. The book did She's not disappointkeen 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. [[Two Steps Forward Vera Magpie by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Black Light by Gayle FormanLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.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]]
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way<!-- Chase -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789010098. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everythingjpg|link=http://www. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lostamazon. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityco. uk/dp/1789010098/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Have Lost My Way Redemptor Domus by Gayle FormanGamelyn Chase]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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