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===[[A Spark of Light American Royals by Jodi PicoultKatharine McGee]]===
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The Center is Two and a half centuries ago, America won the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi Revolutionary War and is the source of great controversy when it comes to General George Washington was offered the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debatecrown. It is at The Center where one man, George GoddardToday, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss House of his grandchild, Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in the form of a mass-shootingline. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister United States and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that daytime for her reign is imminent. [[A Spark of Light American Royals by Jodi PicoultKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and The Girl at the Eyeballs of Death Window by M B VincentRowan Coleman]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:CrimeParanormal|CrimeParanormal]] 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]]
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]]
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===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sasha has Set in a lot typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent by high school and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering growing up as a rebellious adolescent phase and itgirl in today's hard to know how to redirect himsociety. Mother AnnieThe novel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, an alcoholicTrina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. The reader is beginning the journey presented with a glimpse into dementia each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and has never been an easy person at times the best thoughts of timesthose characters could have been taken directly from my own. Thank heavens for her lovely dogGomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, Sebastian, and his unconditional loveparticularly in relation to the ''Me Too Movement''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[What's Left Unsaid We Are Not Okay by Deborah StoneNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.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?[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a babyfoot out as Rhona Beech came past. Many of them simply managed She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to put one foot feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in front Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the other until things calmed down sentence was the 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 some will have found it harder 's not the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a couple. So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and developed post-natal depressionthe middle of your thirties. [[The Place Where Love Should Be Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Elizabeth EllisKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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[[image:4starIt 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[:Category:General FictionEquator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|General FictionFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Hajaj Jane O'Connor -->
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===[[The Water Thief Needlemouse by Claire HajajJane O'Connor]]===
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Nick We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is in her favourite day of the middle year, not because it's her birthday but because of wedding preparations when the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he decides and his wife are going to leave divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his fiancée behind in London love and take up a post they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in some unher own mind -named west African country providing engineering support for she envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the building sexual part of a childrenthe relationship. There's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself intotime though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[The Water Thief Needlemouse by Claire HajajJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Vintage 1954 by Melissa LeetAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
[[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]]
Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plot. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to get them together, and drinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked out the door one rainy morning, never to be seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson McLean -->
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===[[Aftershocks The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by A N WilsonFelicity McLean]]===
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In a country very much like New ZealandWhen Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find loveVan Apfel sisters disappeared. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was In the only thing to make sense long hot summer of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard1992, and books and poems she'd readin an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, and plays shethe girls vanished during the school'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboles Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. It was entirely unrequited love Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for quite some timethe sisters united the small community, but it does burgeonthey were never found. Returning home years later, or so we're promised from the off, because Tikka must make sense of something quite drastic that strange moment in time – a major earthquake very much like of the one summer that hit Christchurchshaped her, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quakegirls she never forgot. [[Aftershocks The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by A N WilsonFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Laura SolomonAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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A little while ago Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''m a die-hard fan of AMS. It's probably not much of So you can imagine my excitement at reading a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil brand new book in ''Marsha's Deal''a brand new series, but described by the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha author himself as Scandi Blanc (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hellopposed to Scandi Noir). ! Although Here we meet a strong personnew detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedsolving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. Daniel This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Thenstabbed in the knee, the disappearance of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedan imaginary boyfriend, but - worst and a case of all - subverted to the devil's evil endspotential werewolves. HeThey's out re the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as deal with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operationand I rather enjoyed them, either - especially the devil has set up a training complex on earthstabbing where you find that actually, complete you identify with an elevator to Hellthe person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. [[Hell's Unveiling The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Laura SolomonAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On by C M Taylor]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, YorkshireThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's where he'd really like WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to beScotland, providing trade craft spy training. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but heIt's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde stifling and suffocating and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really feels as much like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back prison to Alex as anything the UKGermans would provide. SheAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn'd have you believe that shet seen her since he went to 's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the pubdisinformation campaign, which isn't doing well enough and returned to sellfind her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. In fact TonyAlex can's cleaning the swimming pools t get Justine out of expats who have his head. Has she left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, the service? Does she know too much? Is she even if they never meet. still alive? [[Staying On The Things That are Lost by C M TaylorAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan A Danger to Herself and Others by Dr Nat TanohAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of foodThey needed someone to blame, and learning about girlsI was the only available scapegoat. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good lifeTheir daughter was my best friend. However, Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the suburb is circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in Africafancy restaurants, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into explored the conflict raging around most sophisticated corners of the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to globe and lived a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead life of the soldiers desperate to stop him? luxury. [[The Day of the Orphan A Danger to Herself and Others by Dr Nat TanohAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Louis and Louise by Robert LockJulie Cohen]]===
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What would you be like, right now, if you''Murmuration'' follows 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 lives way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of a host the above, covering the stories of characters from 1863 to Louis and Louise, born on the present same day. From a risqué comic , to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a fortune tellerboy, we see and in the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourother a girl. There is Does it really make a hint of mysticism to difference, the talegender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, with but this story really highlights how things have been in the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives herepast, how they still are, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the seaand prompts you to think about how they could be... [[Murmuration Louis and Louise by Robert LockJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills M for Mammy by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunterThe Augustts are, like all families, and a successful one toobit complicated. A loving irish family, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing their love binds them together – yes, there is a new ban on smoking but all express that in all workplacesvery different ways. Goaded by his non-smoking wifeHowever, even though when misfortune strikes the family they met over an ashtray, of sortsare forced to work together in order to understand each other again, he sees a hypnotist who had success as with a mutual friend 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 stopping their nicotine habitand takes charge. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect Full of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits stern words and lifestylecommon sense, 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 itshe's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the mostfamily together. [[Smoking Kills M for Mammy by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Eleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by M A BennettRuth Hogan]]===
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A contemporary take on Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the savage classic ''Lord remains of the Fliesher mother'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted islands life after her death. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from AmericaWhilst there, he is finding it hard she returns to settle into the venerable Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and prestigious Osney Schoolmisfits. Who knew there could A place where people can be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind themselves, and let go of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in yearsTilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, he immediately becomes from this place of wonder. With the butt help of every school joke. And some students are determined Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to make his life more miserable than others..pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Island Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by M A BennettRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]===
===[[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, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
William Woolf is a letter detectiveFreddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, working in answering the Dead Letters Depot in East Londoncall for teachers. He spends thinks about his days deciphering smudged addressesown Jamaican education, based on the British system, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of lovecricket and football, guilt, death, hopeshared 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, and everyday life. don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Man Who Came to London by Helen CullenA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Liberation Square by Laura SolomonGareth Rubin]]===
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Marsha didn't have In an easy ride in life the first time aroundalternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]After D-Day goes horribly wrong, a rare disease which turned parts of her body Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be rescued by Russian soldiers from the endEast, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with Americans from the devilwest. And that was when she made Dividing the pactnation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. In exchange When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for details about some the murder of those who had been close his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her - their strengths right to the highest levels of the state – and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. murderous secret police… [[Marsha's Deal Liberation Square by Laura SolomonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver When You Read This by Naomi NovikMary Adkins]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her Father isn't very good husband at it at allthe altar on their wedding day. Lending freely and rarely collecting Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, he leaves the family but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step branding agency inNew York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. Hardening her heart He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person died at the age of great interest thirty three. He was surprised too when she borrows he discovered that Iris had been writing a pouch blog in the last six months of silver pennies from her Grandfather life and returns it full her final request of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings Smith is that haunt he gets the wood through to blog published as a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… book. [[Spinning Silver When You Read This by Naomi NovikMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Vera Magpie by Andy JonesLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''I have murdered three husbands.''
Friends are niceAs an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and couple friends are doubly niceHarry were abusive, giving you like minded people to spend time with. A pair of pairsbut Larry was a treasure, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally keeper, and Al it's difficult to understand why Vera would have known Mike for ages – Sally from universitykilled him, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and though now she doesn't have their shared historys in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, shebut Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a lot sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of fun – a bit younger than her life in prison for the rest sake of thema fling), but she is keen on getting an actress education and so onshe's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Four Vera Magpie by Andy JonesLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Black Light by Stephan CollishawLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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. [[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Redemptor Domus by Lydia SysonGamelyn Chase]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast of New Zealand, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family of settlers struggle tragedy causes the boy to make such arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an unforgiving place a homeuncertain future. When Plunged into a ship appearsschool full of danger and betrayal, they feel that their wishes have been granted the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers scheming and newcomers come together in plotting, it comes to the search for boy to attempt to clean up the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both pit of filth that the island and those who inhabit itschool has become. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Redemptor Domus by Lydia SysonGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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