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===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]===
 
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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]]
 
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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. I had thirty stitches in my perineumcame to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do author's]] debut in the stitches twice because adult novel market (hence the first lot became infectedmore mature name – he used to be an Andy). The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention thought it simple to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a daysum up, or better still, take the tale of a salt bathmiddle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower I hadn't opened it when a baby is crying I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and you’re so tired you can barely stand [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''some affirmative loveliness.
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a babyMore fool me. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be Train Man by Elizabeth EllisAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]===
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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]] |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008291845.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008291845/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for Set in a typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the weekend difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, Trina andSophia, while waiting for his wife whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to arrivesworn enemies. The reader is presented with a glimpse into each of their lives, finds a mysterious key down but more importantly their minds, and at times the back thoughts of an antique chairthose characters could have been taken directly from my own. The grubby Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and torn label relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to which is attached reads.the ''Me Too Movement''.''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[The Amber Maze We Are Not Okay by Christopher BowdenNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Claire HajajKate Tough]]===
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Nick is Life has just hidden behind a 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 sentence was the middle way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Well, 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 wedding preparations when he decides a couple. So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to leave his fiancée behind in London the one she'd left nine years ago - and take up there's a post lot of difference between being in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building middle of your twenties and the middle of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself intoyour thirties. [[The Water Thief Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Claire HajajKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Equator by Melissa LeetAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Historical Fiction|General Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Literary Fiction|Women's Literary 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:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
It 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, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, 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… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson Jane O'Connor -->
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===[[Aftershocks Needlemouse by A N WilsonJane O'Connor]]===
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In a country very much like New ZealandWe first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, but at the same time most avowedly notProf, two women will find loveis taking her out to lunch. Strong love too This is her favourite day of the year, for our narrator will say that not because it's her first attraction for her partner was birthday but because of the only thing special time she gets to make sense of all those exaggerated songs spend with the man sheloves. He'd heard, s told her that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and books Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and poems shethey can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'd read, and plays shetogether'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some timeher own mind - she envisages it as romantic, but it does burgeon, or so weher imagination hasn're promised from t yet progressed to the off, because sexual part of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same relationship. There's time most avowedly not. This book then is though - she's only been the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quakeprof's PA for fifteen years. [[Aftershocks Needlemouse by A N WilsonJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Vintage 1954 by Laura SolomonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
[[image:34.5star.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 Vintage 1954 starts by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and I was delighted by formulate a plot. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the opportunity to read wife who shared his dream of visiting the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''city together. It's probably not much of We have a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but the devil actually is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought a humble restorer of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)antiques. Although We have a strong personcocktail barman, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedinfatuated with the goth girl. Daniel is framed for We also have a man ruling the roost over a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, whole suite of course there are all individual apartments fabricated from the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all Haussmann- subverted to the devil's evil endsera mansion his family once owned. He's out Finally something conspires to prey on their fears get them together, and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragiledrinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. This is no small-scale operationOnly, either - one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the devil has set up same plonk – where a training complex on earthgrandfather imbibed, complete with an elevator and walked out the door one rainy morning, never to Hellbe seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Hell's Unveiling Vintage 1954 by Laura SolomonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by C M TaylorFelicity McLean]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through When Tikka Molloy was eleven and through and being honestone-sixth years old, 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 pubVan Apfel sisters disappeared. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to In the UK, what with the uncertainty long hot summer of Brexit and everything1992, but there are a couple in an isolated suburb of problems. First offAustralia surrounded by Bushland, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that shegirls vanished during the school's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked aboutShowstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Then there's Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the pubsmall community, which isn't doing well enough to sellthey were never found. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned Returning homeyears later, in order to Tikka must make a bit sense of money to try and make ends at least come that strange moment in sight time – of each otherthe summer that shaped her, even if they and the girls she never meetforgot. [[Staying On The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by C M TaylorFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day Department of the Orphan Sensitive Crimes by Dr Nat TanohAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteenLong-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls time followers of The Bookbag will know I''hopm a die-hip'', eating copious amounts hard fan of food, and learning about girlsAMS. Living So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in an affluenta brand new series, liberal and protected suburbdescribed by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, he has a good life. Howeverwho works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the suburb usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in Africathe knee, where childhoods can be snatched in the disappearance of an instantimaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. When his friends They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and family are dragged into I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the conflict raging around person who committed the dictatorship that Saga lives undercrime, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryrather than the victim. 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 Department of the Orphan Sensitive Crimes by Dr Nat TanohAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]===
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The final novel in Alan Kennedy''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 s WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to the present dayScotland, providing trade craft spy training. From It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a risqué comic prison to a fortune teller, we see Alex as anything the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourGermans would provide. There And where is a hint of mysticism Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to the tale''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, with the mesmerising dance instigator of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives heredisinformation campaign, drawing together disparate stories 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 lives captivated by his head. Has she left the sea. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Murmuration The Things That are Lost by Robert LockAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter'They needed someone to blame, and a successful one too, in an office in ParisI was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances. All around him however his world is changing '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplacesor so her parents tell her. 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 She has dined in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successfulfancy restaurants, however he faces explored the prospect most sophisticated corners of having such the globe and lived 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 mostlife of luxury. [[Smoking Kills A Danger to Herself and Others by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Louis and Louise by M A BennettJulie Cohen]]===
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A contemporary take on What would you be like, right now, if you'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 savage classic ''Lord way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the Flies'': a group above, covering the stories of mismatchedLouis and Louise, modern-born on the same day teenagers must fight , to survive on a deserted island. Link the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from Americaboy, he is finding it hard to settle into and in the venerable and prestigious Osney Schoolother a girl. 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 Does it really make a difference, the school quad - however ancient gender box that quad may beis ticked when we arrive in this world? When Link runs We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the slowest time in yearspast, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students how they still are determined , and prompts you to make his life more miserable than othersthink about how they could be... [[The Island Louis and Louise by M A BennettJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf M for Mammy by Helen CullenEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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William Woolf is The Augustts are, like all families, a letter detectivebit complicated. A loving irish family, working their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the Dead Letters Depot family they are forced to work together in East Londonorder 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. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and reading endless letters takes charge. Full of lovestern words and common sense, guilt, death, hope, and everyday lifeshe's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf M for Mammy by Helen CullenEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[MarshaQueenie Malone's Deal Paradise Hotel by Laura SolomonRuth Hogan]]===
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Marsha didnTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother't have an easy ride in s life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the first time aroundParadise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]A place where people can be themselves, a rare disease which turned parts and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand mother for banishing her life any longer and went to Dignitasas a child, the Swiss euthanasia clinicfrom this place of wonder. She'd thought that would be With the endhelp of Queenie Malone, caring, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-gregarious, Tilda begins to-face with pick apart the devil. And that was when tricky and uncertain relationship she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to with her - their strengths sometimes cruel and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of diseasedistant mother. [[MarshaQueenie Malone's Deal Paradise Hotel by Laura SolomonRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting'In 1948, he leaves the family on the edge first set of poverty, until Miryem must step Caribbean nationals arrived inGreat Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersThey worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of goldforcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from Freddy makes the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryemsame journey.'s talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik|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]] <!-- Jones Rubin -->
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===[[Four Liberation Square by Andy JonesGareth Rubin]]===
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Friends are niceIn an alternate 1952, and couple friends are doubly niceSoviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, giving you like minded people Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to spend time withbe rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. A pair of pairsDividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, or a couple of coupleswall running through it like a scar. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for ages – Sally from universitythe murder of his former wife, Al through workJane is determined to clear his name. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historyIn doing so, she's Jane follows a lot trail of fun – a bit younger than corruption that leads her right to the rest highest levels of them, an actress the state – and so on. soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Four Liberation Square by Andy JonesGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness When You Read This by Stephan CollishawMary Adkins]]===
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Mazowe ValleySmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks during which time Iris left her husband at first might be a birdthe altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but turns out his attention was on making enough money to be a babycover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, abandoned to running the birds on branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the kopjepressures got too much for him. She is there with her uncle He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and they take died at the child, back to his farm initially 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 then to a local village where it her final request of Smith is taken in. They do not report it to that he gets the policeblog published as a book. [[A Child Called Happiness When You Read This by Stephan CollishawMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Vera Magpie by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes ''I have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsmurdered three husbands. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|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]] <!-- Parkin Laura Solomon -->
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[[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]]
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed 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 in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified of the sea, of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Redemptor Domus by Rebecca MakkaiGamelyn Chase]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the AIDS crisis scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in Chicago during the late 1980’sFar East. Beginning in 1985, As the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come boy travels to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityschool, alongside their demonisation a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the hands of school a conservative Americavulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Thirty years later Fiona, Plunged into a devoted friend to Yaleschool full of danger and betrayal, the boy is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild seen as a relationship beset trophy by memories friends and old hurtenemies 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. [[The Great Believers Redemptor Domus by Rebecca MakkaiGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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