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===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]===
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[[image:4starTwo 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionAmerican Royals by Katharine McGee|General FictionFull Review]]
The final novel in Alan Kennedy<!-- Mulligan -->|-| style='s WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasnwidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;'t seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing|[[image:1784742716.jpg|link=http://www. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite anotheramazon. Alex can't get Justine out of his headco. Has she left the serviceuk/dp/1784742716/ref=nosim? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Reviewtag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]===
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I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsAndy 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:TeensChris Cleave|TeensChris Cleave]], and [[:Category:General FictionDavid Nicholls|General FictionDavid Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.
''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxuryMore fool me. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Train Man by Alyssa SheinmelAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise The Girl at the Window by Julie CohenRowan Coleman]]===
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What would you be likeTrudy Heaton is going home, right now, if you'd been born to a different gender? Would it simply be house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to 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? mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the aboveHome, covering the stories of Louis and Louiseher refuge, born on the same dayPonden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girltraumatic loss of her husband. Does it really make a difference, the gender box She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is ticked when we arrive in this world? dead. We all know that men Where better than the house full of light and women are treated differentlyshadow, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be... that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[Louis and Louise The Girl at the Window by Julie CohenRowan Coleman|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy We Are Not Okay by Eleanor O'ReillyNatalia Gomes]]===
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Set in a typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in today's society. The Augustts arenovel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, like all familiesTrina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. The reader is presented with a bit complicated. A loving irish familyglimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their love binds them together – but all express minds, and at times the thoughts 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 very different ways. Howeverour society, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together particularly in order relation 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'Me Too Movement''. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force 'We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family togetherimportance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[M for Mammy We Are Not Okay by Eleanor O'ReillyNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Ruth HoganKate Tough]]===
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Tilda returns 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 Brighton, feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to tidy away come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the remains of sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her motherown. Well, she wasn's life after t completely on her death. Whilst thereown: she had friends and family, she returns to but it's not the Paradise hotelsame as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a haven for eccentrics and misfitscouple. A place where people can be themselves So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as there's a child, from this place lot of wonder. With difference between being in the help middle of Queenie Malone, caring, your twenties and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mothermiddle of your thirties. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Ruth HoganKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[: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 It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a place theme park. Our agent to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian' Freddie arrives in London , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the early 2000sway man – and woman, answering of course – can turn against fellow man at the call for teachersbat of an eyelid. He thinks But this book is about his own Jamaican education, based on so much more than the British system1870s USA, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and about the River Thamesracial genocide. He thinks about the love finds himself trying to find this book's version of cricket and footballUtopia, shared by both countries. And he thinks of namely the generations of Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have ground to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils counter the anti- all Jamaicans smoke weedgravity, don't they? Everybody 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… [[The Man Who Came to London Equator by A S CooksonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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In an alternate 1952We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrongthe Prof, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only taking her out to be rescued by Russian soldiers from lunch. This is her favourite day of the Eastyear, and Americans from not because it's her birthday but because of the west. Dividing special time she gets to spend with the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scarman she loves. When Jane Cawson He's husband is arrested for the murder of told her that he and his former wife, Jane are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is determined to clear convinced that the Prof will then declare his namelove and they can be together. In doing so She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads but her right imagination hasn't yet progressed to the highest levels sexual part of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of relationship. There's time though - she's only been the murderous secret police… prof's PA for fifteen years. [[Liberation Square Needlemouse by Gareth RubinJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This Vintage 1954 by Mary AdkinsAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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Smith Simonyi Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsformulate a plot. So we have an American biker, during which time Iris left her husband at just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream of visiting the altar on their wedding daycity together. Smith, meanwhile, relied on IrisWe have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsinactually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, running infatuated with the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the pressures got too much for himHaussmann-era mansion his family once owned. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer Finally something conspires to get them together, and died at drinking from the age same bottle of thirty threea rare 1954 red wine. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing Only, one of them has a blog bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the last six months of her life same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and her final request of Smith is that he gets walked out the blog published as a bookdoor one rainy morning, never to be seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[When You Read This Vintage 1954 by Mary AdkinsAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Vera Magpie The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Laura SolomonFelicity McLean]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''I have murdered three husbands[[image:4star.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
As When Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old, the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the long hot summer of 1992, in an opening line that must take some beatingisolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, but Verathe girls vanished during the school's telling us Showstopper concert at the truthriverside amphitheatre. The first two husbandsDid they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, Gary and Harry they 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 never found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is ShirleyReturning home years later, 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 Tikka must make sense of her life that strange moment in prison for time – of the sake of a fling)summer that shaped her, but she is keen on getting an education and the girls she's studying for a degree in English Literaturenever forgot. [[Vera Magpie The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Laura SolomonFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Light The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Laura SolomonAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Jim is Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm 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 stepdie-fatherhard fan of AMS. His younger brother would be kindly So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficultScandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, but Jim does his best with and who works in the Department for himSensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. Jim's This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looksknee, the attitudedisappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desiredcase of potential werewolves. Despite all They're the crimes that's he's not about perhaps nobody else would bother to sit back deal with, and allow his life to drift: he's I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in , you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the pubvictim. [[Black Light The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Laura SolomonAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family The final novel in the Far East. As the boy travels Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to the schoolScotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a family tragedy causes the boy prison to arrive at Alex as anything the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain futureGermans would provide. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plottingher since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, it comes to instigator of the boy disinformation campaign, and returned to attempt to clean up the pit find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of filth that his head. Has she left the school has become. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Redemptor Domus The Things That are Lost by Gamelyn ChaseAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom A Danger to Herself and Others by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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On my travels around the world, I have a tendency ''They needed someone to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language booksblame, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as was the next person, what only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I'm really looking for is could do under the circumstances.'local' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – the cookbook maybeor so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the maps definitely, but above all: most sophisticated corners of the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I goglobe and lived a life of luxury. [[The Long Path To Wisdom A Danger to Herself and Others by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Louis and Louise by Magda SzaboJulie Cohen]]===
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This is What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a story about the past. A specific past, certainlymatter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the form 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 pre-war Budapestthe above, but also a story about how that past can impact on covering the present stories of Louis and Louise, born on the future. In this booksame day, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on to the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissuedparents, we witness but in one storyline Lou is a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not surviveboy, and in the other a girl. Does it really make a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone timesdifference, feelings the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and experiences which mark women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the here and nowpast, how they still are, staining and warping it into another, subtler miseryprompts you to think about how they could be... [[Katalin Street Louis and Louise by Magda SzaboJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starThe Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingM for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly|For SharingFull Review]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Mandeville Hogan -->
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===[[Every Colour of You Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Amelia MandevilleRuth Hogan]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life Tilda returns to years as well as years Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's lifeafter her death. Her worldWhilst there, like her nameshe returns to the Paradise hotel, is bursting with life a haven for eccentrics and colourmisfits. She is the sort A place where people can be themselves, and let go of girl who would sing thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a rainbow is she couldchild, from this place of wonder. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is With the opposite. Fresh out help of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unitQueenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, he sees a world as a grey placeTilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Every Colour of You Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Amelia MandevilleRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Man Who Came to London by A Spark of Light by Jodi PicoultS Cookson]]===
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The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man''In 1948, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss first set of his grandchild, Caribbean nationals arrived in the form of Great Britain on a mass-shootingship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, They worked as well as other characters central to the storylabourers. One of these characters is Hugh McElroyThey faced open discrimination, a hostage negotiator called in forcing them to help deflate the situationquickly form their own community. Decades later, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at Freddy makes the clinic that daysame journey. [[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult|Full Review]]''
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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]]
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===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]===
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[[image:4starIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[:Category:General FictionLiberation Square by Gareth Rubin|General FictionFull Review]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]] <!-- Ellis Mary Adkins -->
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
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[[image:4starSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionWhen You Read This by Mary Adkins|General FictionFull Review]]
''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?'' I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. 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 by Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Bowden Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
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Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the weekend truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, andit's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, while waiting for his wife particularly when she was likely to arriveget found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, finds a mysterious key down 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 back sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an antique chair. The grubby education and torn label to which is attached reads..she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[The Amber Maze Vera Magpie by Christopher BowdenLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Black Light by Claire HajajLaura Solomon]]===
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Nick Jim is in a university student and, as the middle of wedding preparations saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he decides was young and somehow he's never really managed to leave 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 fiancée behind best with and for him. Jim's in London love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the building (lack of ) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a childrenlot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's hospital. He has no idea what actually writing ''two'' novels and he is getting himself intoreads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[The Water Thief Black Light by Claire HajajLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Redemptor Domus by Melissa LeetGamelyn Chase]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friendsbetrayal, despite the fact that Susie was boy is seen as a year older than Jilltrophy by friends and enemies alike. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, With them locked into their scheming and Jill lived with ''her'' motherplotting, who dedicated herself it comes 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 boy to attempt to clean up 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 pit of how what happened determined filth that the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopeschool has become. [[Landslide Redemptor Domus by Melissa LeetGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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