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|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZAndrew Sharp|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydChef, the Bird and the Blessing
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirtyChef Mlantushi -three years old, absolutely gorgeous Mozzy to look at his employer - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck is, in his mind, the karma trap: head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an awful lot of bad luck unnamed African country. Mozzy is being visited on her earnest and she has a real talent dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the bottom head chef of the stairs a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in it and left herthis ambition by his boss, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has Mr Bin (Ben to take her motheryou and me) who incurs Mozzy's dog out disapproval for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around his allowing of bush animals into the officehouse.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|authorisbn=Matt Haig1901514978|title=The Midnight LibraryThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Between life Life is different for George Lovelace and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Libraryhe can't really understand why. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora He's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak always done everything he ought to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding: steady worker, husband and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town of Bedford father - and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made a father who was always there for life school plays and decides to diesports days. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is filled someone with books, each book providing such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a chance cliche these days to try another life she could have lived, in suggest that someone who is a parallel time. And solittle different is 'on the spectrum', just after midnight on Tuesday but George Lovelace has all the 18th symptoms of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she couldAsperger'ves Syndrome: high-functioning autism.|isbn=1786892731
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|author=Vincent PanettiereFreya Sampson|title=These Thy GiftsThe Last Library
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''2006 is I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a tumultuous year for librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the Catholic Church. Reports thought of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the church—and rightly sowindow, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and hit closer to stayed at home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense take care of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchher mum, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by as well as taking on a priest sent by his bishopjob as library assistant at the local library. And this isn't just any boy: this even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is Stevestill working there, still eating her mum's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve favourite takeaway meal, and a gangsterstill reading her mum's widowold books. Steve June is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failingsstuck, but little does she know, going right back to his breaking of everything in her life is about the celibacy vowschange.|isbn=1503199886183877369X}}
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|author=Delia OwensEmily Critchley|title=Where The Crawdads SingTiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came homehallmarks of something good. Then one I was intrigued by one her siblings leftthe plot, ran from liked the shack on design of the North Carolina marsh that served as home book, and thought the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed author'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor writes work sounded interesting. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on From the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be heldoutset it all looked incredibly promising. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murderwhat on earth went wrong here?|isbn=14721546651911427091}}
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|isbn=1473692407B093VPBL5L|title=The Book of Two WaysCape Henry House|author=Jodi PicoultJolly Walker Bittick
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a death doulafirst name: there's merely a hint thathe had the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's someone who is there for the person who is dying, simply Bosner to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible one and to support their carersall. ItWhen we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a rewardinggreaser on helicopters (or helos, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifeas they were called) at a naval establishment. Some fifteen years ago she The hours could be long and he was a graduate student often working nights but at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elage of twenty-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she one, there was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published underalways a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.
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|isbn=0241295955B095CY7NBN|title=TrioAutumn Camp|author=William BoydBarry Fowler|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedto be Brian's last camp. ItHe's also d founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brightonreins to someone else. ItThe obvious person was Gary, who's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to d always been the fun element of the Moon''camps and Brian had said that on this camp, or ''Ladder Gary should act as the Moonleader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn' as it's known on sett really an organiser, an administrator if you like. Anny Viklund is He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the female star spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketyand did the organising. There are odd pressures on He handed the producer, Talbot Kydd, camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use have his revenge. This should have been ''his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading'' camp.
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|author=Anna BrunoJohn Boyne|title=Ordinary HazardsThe Echo Chamber|rating=25
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youMeet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". And He starts this was one book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that I wanted so badly suggests an almost farcical approach to like but unfortunatelythe modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, I just wasn't hookedis the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=14711848620857526219
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|isbn=17124357280008444501|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Answer to Everything|author=Michael GallagherLuke Kennard|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahLife should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, he's just being released from the Southern General HospitalSteven, who was a speech therapist. The nurse thinks heWe'll come back pass over the fact that they rarely speak to visit each other and don't even sleep in the other patients but Alex same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has no intention of doing left the marital bed as that: heshe's been there for sharing a year, on bed with one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the same ward where his brother died night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and now, Emily has a job to cope with his hair all shorn off, hetoo - she teaches drama two days a week. They's going ve not long moved into a new home in his dead brotherCriterion Gardens: it's clothes. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says a trendy area that the fresh air will do him good has been gentrified and his mother tells him that heit's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitisrun on semi-communal lines. Good luck with that one, AlexThe residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.
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|author=Helen FisherLouise Beech|title=Space HopperThis Is How We Are Human|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from Veronica is a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she of course missed her mum enormouslycan't give him everything he wants. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) Sebastian has decided that takes her back to the 70it's and her mum, she revels in the chance time for him to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to herhave sex. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safeBut as an autistic 20 year-old, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him insteadeasier said than done. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if And it's safe for her to return one last time starting to the pastcause them both problems. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=14711886631913193713}}
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|author= Claire McGowanAnanda Devi|title=The PushEve Out of Her Ruins|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but At not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being Londoneven 200 pages, such a class attracts a wide variety Eve Out of people, from all sorts Her Ruins is one of backgroundsthe shortest books I've read in a long while, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first babyone of the most dramatic. Probably after the first one, you donIt't have time for classess also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, or think you've got child-rearing down patthe descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=15420199900993009344}}
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|isbnauthor=0008378363C J Carey|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneWidowland|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband is about It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to have the throne of Edward VIII with his throat cut wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in his own bedthe lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. To find out who But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi- styled phrenology, and why ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high- we need brow office bigwigs to go back nine days the drudges, and twenty years. Mackenziebeyond those, Robin and Lily met when they all went right on down to the same college in Monroevillechildless, Pennsylvania the husbandless and twenty years later they're still the best of friendswidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. When they first met they called themselves And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the Spicier Girls as a nod task of bowdlerising classical literature to the famous girl band take all encouragement for female emancipation out of the day. Lily would it – after all, not every book can be Adventure Spicebanned, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, Mackenzie would be and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the supporting actress in her own lifeparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. She married OwenThat is her job, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterat least, Ariauntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, whowith their potential to spoil Hitler's now fifteen-year-oldvisit.|isbn=152941198X
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0857527231|title=The Lies You ToldDog Days|author=Harriet TyceEricka Waller
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new schoolGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. SheIt's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's left the school she loved in New York and now first time that she's going to Ashams in North Londonlet him down. ItHe's very upmarket; places are rare as henslost, bereft without her ( he ' teeth and as the pupils have all been there 'needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'forever'). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he', they d much rather have their established groupsa good row with someone. RobinHe's going to be an outsiderparticularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days She even dared to contradict him when he told her parentsthat the dog wasn' marriage fell apartt staying. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - Now he works for 's lumbered with a securities firm - dog he doesn't want and her mothera load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, Sadie Roperwho won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristergreyhound. That's easier said than done when you've been out Lucky spends a lot of the market place - time trying to escape from and the country - for more than ten yearsdestroy them.
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|author=Antoine LaurainMartin Venning|title=The Readers RoomPrimary Objective|rating=2
|genre=General Fiction
|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Sometimes a great successbook starts off slowly, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work but eventually draws you in to caring about the Readers' Room characters or simply wanting to sift through know what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenhappens next. But there are several 'howeversSometimes it doesn' to thatt. As in, however The basic premise is a good one Violaine herself is not having life all her own waya clandestine organisation, for she has been involved in operating as a near-fatal accidentcharity, but funded by various governments around the world and starts this book coming round from a coma. Andpartially (maybe, however – despite all urgingI'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the author primary objective of keeping the book has never once made themselves known to peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always the publishers in person, first option and in factsometimes one that needs to be carried out by third parties, offered up but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a most peculiar statementcall-comeon list of field operatives, ex-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violainemilitary, her memorymedics, her staff – scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and how much is any willing to risk their life for the sake of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?.|isbn=19104779741800461100
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|isbnauthor=085752612XKaren M McManus|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis SittenfeldThe Cousins|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being The rich and famous Story family led a portrait life of Laura Bushluxury on Gull Cove Island, but until 25 years ago when each of the word ''thinlyStory children -veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewsAnders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. How would ''Rodham'' compare? UnfortunatelyBut now, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushquarter of a century later, which gave their children have been called to return to the book a freshness which island for the first third of ''Rodham'' lackssummer by their grandmother. We've What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all heard those years ago? Are the storiesdeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, read secrets and tragedy that has held the books Story family up - about Hillary and particularly held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about Billto come crashing down. It's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?|isbn=0241376947
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|author=Anstey HarrisRuth Hogan|title=Where We BelongMadame Burova|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= I've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we can tell that have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a sacred space is sacred. Cate Morris believes humdrum job wanting to become a similar thingsinger, she believes that ''A house absorbs happinessand chiefly, it blooms into the wallpaperImelda, the wood third generation of the window framesMadame Burova, the bricks: that's how it becomes a home.'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' She is having these thoughts as she packs up , to use her homefamily's sea-front booth. She has to leaveThe singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. A combination of circumstances means that is not only redundant but We also homeless. With nowhere else to go, she has called see her on her late husband's family last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for helpa woman called Billie. Just for who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a few weeks.secret all this time?|isbn=1471173836152937331X
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|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Stephen Clarke|title=A Life Without EndThe Spy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)
|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I looked This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the calendar nature of the other week, and disappointedly realised I have person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a birthday this year – I knownarration, yet another one. It wonwe see him picked up by his mother't be one of the major numberss chauffeur, but and carted off to do all the time when I have necessary introductions before said mother is buried the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonfollowing day. And then The mother was a few of the big 0-numbersbusinesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. settled in Romania with her (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.night-time and business) Now if that's the extent partner, and feelings of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happyabandonment are still strong. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseAnd so we flit from current (well, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find this came out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with in the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsoriginal Italian in 2007, and they end up with a childso moderately current) Bucharest, which is at least a way of continuing to the life of his geneslad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a motive to keep ongoingprivate farewell address. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701939810965
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|isbnauthor=B08774SJYNDavid F Ross|title=The Greenbecker Gambit|author=Ben GraffThere's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense of loneliness is Years ago, Danny Garvey was a price all truly successful people must pay footballing prodigy playing for our gifts. I tell myself that I do so willingly.'' Tennessee Greenbeckerhis local club. Isn't that Everyone predicted a name to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been the name he was given at birth, bright future – but many of us have moved his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, so far as names goconvinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, from Danny takes over the one we were originally saddled with. Greenbecker's life is one of constant reinvention. He tells us that shambolic and once-great team he's the foremost chess player never used to have been world champion, play for and it does seem that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. He's determined that he's going tries to fulfil what he sees as his destiny. He just needs to do some study to be able to beat the current players ranked at numbers one and two in the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his wayreform them.|isbn= 1913193500
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|author=J Paul HendersonGail Honeyman|title=DaisyEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Eleanor Oliphant is the story of Herod Salmost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. PinkneyShe works 9-5, 5 days a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search of a woman called Daisyweek, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing spends the novel of his questweekend not drunk, guided but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in a pub for a living. Determined to find routine, and meet Daisy, the book takes us through Rodthat's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life, introduces us to his friends, and tells us of what happens in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4Except everything is.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wifeUntil one day, Maggieat a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, Frank she sees the man she is playing chess against his computersure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, although not very successfullyin order to secure this beautiful musician. MaggieThen, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of them, new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in fact - the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before long she will collapse. When Frank rings knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the emergency services man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in Oxford he has a bit of a problemlove with Johnnie Lomond. He has But just as her life seems to admit that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken be looking up, things take a turn for a whilethe worse. How long? Well, itIs Johnnie all he's about six months since he spoke cracked up to Maggie and he can't really say if itbe? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's likely that Maggie walls have been broken down and she has tried to take fight her own lifeway out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone.|isbn=0008172145
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|authorisbn=Camilla BruceB08GFSK2WZ|title=You Let Me InThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary= EccentricGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for a year eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has been pronounced legally dead a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her lawyers, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Her will instructs She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her niece and nephew to enter end up with dog poo spattered across her home face - and find a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last story she'll ever tell.|isbn=1787633179
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|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedMatt Haig|title= Yes No Maybe So The Midnight Library|rating= 45|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give it our all Between life and crash and burndeath there is a library. But we might win. We might actually change thingsAnd so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. And Everything that maybe makes it still worth going for, doncould't you think?ve gone wrong in Nora''Jaime s life has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassingHer cat died, she lost her job, he canher brother won't think of anything worse. Howeverspeak to her, her parents are dead, Jaime has always wanted the boy she teaches piano to be a politician no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and decides there is old Mr Banerjee next door no time like longer needs her help. She gave up on all the present to conquer his fear of speaking to things that would've let her escape the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer wet, cold town of Bedford and given her lifesome purposeful direction. Her parents are going through a separationSo at 23:22, she has zero plans realises that she isn't made for the summer life and decides to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busydie. To help occupy herBut instead of death, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassingfinds the library. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in historyEach infinite shelf is filled with books, as neither of them really want each book providing a chance to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they caretry another life she could have lived, in a lotparallel time. And so, about just after midnight on Tuesday the election - and maybe even about each other?18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could've.|isbn=14711846681786892731
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