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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf American Royals by Helen CullenKatharine McGee]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Mulligan -->|-| style=''width:Category10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:Literary Fiction1784742716.jpg|Literary Fictionlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742716/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|Full Review]]
| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the author's]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to be an Andy). I thought it simple to sum up, the tale of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness. More fool me. [[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]] 
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===[[Marsha's Deal We Are Not Okay by Laura SolomonNatalia Gomes]]===
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Marsha didnSet in a typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay''t have an easy ride tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in life the first time around. Shetoday'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedias society.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]The novel is told from four different perspectives, a rare disease which turned parts those of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer Lucy, Ulana, Trina and went Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinicsworn enemies. She'd thought that would be the endThe reader is presented with a glimpse into each of their lives, but after cremation her body went straight to hell more importantly their minds, and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made at times the pact. In exchange for details about some thoughts of those who had characters could have been close to her - their strengths taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and weaknesses - she would be reborn relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to the ''Me Too Movement''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the same day to reader of the same parents, but would live her life free importance of diseasephrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[Marsha's Deal We Are Not Okay by Laura SolomonNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Naomi NovikKate Tough]]===
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Miryem comes from Life has just hidden behind a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isncorner 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''t very good at it at all. Lending freely Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and rarely collecting, he leaves was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the family sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step inher own. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers Well, she becomes a person of great interest when wasn't completely on her own: she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather had friends and returns family, but it full of gold's not the same as having that special someone in your life, soon becoming entangled with an array that someone who makes you part of strange creaturesa couple. So Rhona had to start again, from the dark beings rejoining a world that haunt bore little resemblance to the wood through to a King whoone she's eager to exploit Miryemd left nine years ago - and there's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirties. [[Spinning Silver Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Naomi NovikKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Equator by Andy JonesAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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Friends are niceIt strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend time with. A pair who bristles at the indignity of pairswhite man against Native 'Indian', or who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a couple of couples. Married couple Sally buffalo hunt, and Al have known Mike for ages who hates the way man – Sally from universityand woman, Al through workof course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and though she doesn't have their shared historythe attendant problems with gold rushes, shepioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's a lot version of fun – a bit younger than Utopia, namely the rest of Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep themon the ground to counter the anti-gravity, an actress and so onwhere, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Four Equator by Andy JonesAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Needlemouse by Stephan CollishawJane O'Connor]]===
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Mazowe ValleyWe first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdthe Prof, but turns is taking her out to be a babylunch. This is her favourite day of the year, abandoned not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the birds on the kopjeman she loves. She He's told her that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is there with her uncle apparently having an affair - and they take Sylvia is convinced that the child, back to Prof will then declare his farm initially love and then to a local village where it is taken they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in. They do not report her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the policesexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[A Child Called Happiness Needlemouse by Stephan CollishawJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Vintage 1954 by Lydia SysonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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On Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a remote volcanic island off plot. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the coast wife who shared his dream of New Zealandvisiting the city together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a family humble restorer of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place antiques. We have a homecocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. When We also have a man ruling the roost over a ship appearswhole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to get them together, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when drinking from the same bottle of a vulnerable boy disappearsrare 1954 red wine. As both settlers and newcomers come together Only, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the search for same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked out the childdoor one rainy morning, they uncover farnever to be seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, far more than though – will they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. ? [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Vintage 1954 by Lydia SysonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Cassandra ParkinFelicity McLean]]===
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A tumbleWhen Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down sixth years old, the mud cliffs and away into Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom long hot summer of 1992, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the turret, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from girls vanished during the shouts of their parentsschool' argumentss Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Here Did they play run away? Were they taken? While the search for the Underwater Breathing gamesisters united the small community, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canwere never found. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified strange moment in time – of the seasummer that shaped her, of and the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that girls she can survive under water. She has to practicenever forgot. [[Underwater Breathing The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Cassandra ParkinFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Department of Sensitive Crimes by Rebecca MakkaiAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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''Long-time followers of The Great Believers'Bookbag will know I' follows m a group die-hard fan of friends whose lives are devastated AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the AIDS crisis author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityknee, alongside their demonisation at the hands disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a conservative Americacase of potential werewolves. Thirty years later Fiona They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, a devoted friend to Yaleespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, is searching for her estranged daughter on you identify with the person who committed the streets of Pariscrime, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtrather than the victim. [[The Great Believers Department of Sensitive Crimes by Rebecca MakkaiAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
In 1993The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, two teenagers stumble across providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a horrific scene on the beach prison to Alex as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits anything the girls in different waysGermans would provide. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''the Brighton Mermaidthat'' because disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking itdisinformation campaign, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles returned to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, liefind her missing. As for Jude, well no A failed mission is one knows if the discovery still haunts her because thing but no one knows where she Justine isquite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Shortly after that fateful night, Has she left the service? Does she know too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seems. much? Is she even still alive? [[The Brighton Mermaid Things That are Lost by Dorothy KoomsonAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short A Danger to Herself and Others by Lex CoultonAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures'They needed someone to blame, and relationshipsI was the only available scapegoat. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her Their daughter was my best friend Jackson. 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, a work colleague, and is grappling with explored the increasingly eccentric behaviour most sophisticated corners of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldglobe and lived a life of luxury. [[Falling Short A Danger to Herself and Others by Lex CoultonAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Louis and Louise by Elisabeth HydeJulie Cohen]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? He might Would it simply be a retired lawyermatter of genetics, a state legislatorand 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, elected congressman covering the stories of Louis and now an amateur farmer Louise, born on the same day, to the same parents, but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, in one storyline Lou is a corporate lawyerboy, would find fault and want to talk about him going into in the other a retirement homegirl. George, Does it really make a nursedifference, would argue the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and Lizziewomen are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, a professor of English Literaturehow they still are, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would prompts you to think about how they could be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen.. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Louis and Louise by Elisabeth HydeJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes M for Mammy by Ruth HoganEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoThe 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. She'd been a single parent with help from her friendHowever, Edwardwhen misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, who had grieved as much with a family as complicated as Masha 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 whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath takes charge. Full of the drowningstern words and common sense, but thereshe's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal force of nature who must try her hardest to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedhold the family together. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes M for Mammy by Ruth HoganEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Ruth Hogan]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of courseTilda returns to Brighton, a platitude that can apply to all tidy away the remains of us. Janeher mother's lifeafter her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, if anythinga haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, is going up and down in levels let go of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn thoughts that it recently found a very deeply dark down placetorment them elsewhere. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkchild, glimpses from this place of wonder. With the help of therapyQueenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, a drive Tilda begins to find her ancestors that takes pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her from rural America to Norway – sometimes cruel and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all thingsdistant mother. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:5star4star.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.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
Danny lives Freddie arrives in a small Sussex town with his motherLondon in the early 2000s, Natalieanswering the call for teachers. Life is poorHe thinks about his own Jamaican education, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact based on the family goes far beyond what they first expectBritish system, and the resulting changes are described to way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the reader through River Thames. He thinks about the naive yet perceptive love of cricket and wholly original eyes football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of fourthe 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 -year-old Danny. all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[Tale of a Tooth The Man Who Came to London by Allie RogersA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Liberation Square by Anthony TrevelyanGareth Rubin]]===
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When Claudia In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is called first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorEast, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsand Americans from the west. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonDividing the nation between them, The Aztec and The Sun KingLondon soon finds itself split in two, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as wall running through it like a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpscar. Reggie, SamsonWhen Jane Cawson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare husband is arrested for the end murder of the world and encourage humanity his former wife, Jane is determined to embrace their impending doomclear his name. Claudia's journey takes In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her far from her home in Manchester right to the end highest levels of the world state – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Claudia Liberation Square by Anthony TrevelyanGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know When You Read This by Mike GayleMary Adkins]]===
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James DeWitt Smith Simonyi and Danny Allen are both men in Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their early thirties whose lives havenwedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of thems nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the two men reconnect branding agency in New York and slowly find they're exactly what losing money gambling when the other needspressures got too much for him. Together, they help each other put their lives back together He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. This 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 beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another personbook. [[The Man I Think I Know When You Read This by Mike GayleMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Vera Magpie by Stephanie ButlandLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeAs 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 just as it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was edging closer likely to death get found out very quickly and now she finally's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, finally got the call that she neededa lesbian, that a heart was available for her but Vera's not one to have let herself be a transplantvictim. Previously She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she had felt so helpless that she had used wouldn't risk the security of her blog to make decisions life in prison for herthe sake of a fling), running polls amongst her readers to decide but she is keen on her actions. But with her new heart, getting an education and she has been given 's studying for a new lifedegree in English Literature. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Vera Magpie by Stephanie ButlandLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Black Light by Stefan MohamedLaura Solomon]]===
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When your best friend vanishesJim is a university student and, as the saying goes, how can you begin he hasn't got his troubles to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether theyseek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he're okay? And what 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 do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions 'd just say that Vanessa faces every dayhe was very difficult, even seven years after her but Jim does his best friend Mark vanishedwith and for him. When he reappears, she Jim's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifelove with a woman, but also by she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the fact clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that 's he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since s not about to sit back and allow his disappearance. Shocked, confused life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return he reads excerpts from these to her home town his friends in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravespub. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Black Light by Stefan MohamedLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Redemptor Domus by Gary SantorellaGamelyn Chase]]===
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The USAA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, early 1980ssent far from his family in the Far East. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back As the boy travels to his home by his drop-outthe school, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while family tragedy causes the book doesn't guide us boy to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has arrive at the school a private room in a large self-contained bungalowvulnerable orphan, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionan uncertain future. There's Plunged into a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – full of danger and all betrayal, the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why With them locked into their scheming and how he's ended up where he isplotting, but it must have something comes to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed boy to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries attempt to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly clean up the pit of filth that the school has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldbecome. [[Dyed Souls Redemptor Domus by Gary SantorellaGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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