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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy ClarkeOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Sea SistersAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Kate is as sensibleAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, focused and down thanks to earth as her sister Mia is reckless and unsettledstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, so it’s no surprise that it’s Mia who leaves London behind to go traveling. With dreams where she posted every step of seeing the USA, Australia Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and beyond, Mia sets off excitedly with her best friend Finnbasically, but this once monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a lifetime trip tragically becomes just that as some months later Mia her twenties and she is found dead in Bali, an apparent suicide plunge. With slowly trying to regain her life thrown into turmoil confidence and unable to get past her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the things they said, and didn’t saycontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to each other when Mia was alivestart her PhD, Kate makes a rather Mia-like decision to leave it all behind tooundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Armed with Mia’s travel journey Most importantly, she sets off to retrace is desperately worried about her sister’s stepslittle sister, stop by stopwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, to try and work out what Mia was going through, perhaps herself and what ultimately lead to her death.relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007481349</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian ClaryKatherine Howe|title=Briefs EncounteredA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Choosing this book Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from Julian Clary was irresistiblea young age. NormallyWhen she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, I try not she decides to review books where I’m already familiar with authorgo and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. But I didn’t feel She hides away, so that seeing him live several times or watching him regularly they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on TV countedboard, as I hadn’t read either and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of his two previous novelslife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091938856</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Bugler1471180158|title=The Safest PlaceMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jane and David Berry have always lived and worked Jamie Matson works in London. However, since their children have come alongan upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the house has felt too cramped and Jane has often dreamed subtlety of moving awaya half brick. When their Jamie's son Sam fails to get a place at , Bo, 'has his chosen secondary schoolproblems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that is he's on the catalyst she autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to start making her dream take time off at short notice - she's a reality. The only problem is that frequent flier in the rest of the family are local A&E and sometimes Bo's not quite as enthusiastic about moving as she would have hopedfit enough to go to school. David will have Missed shifts or the need to commute every day be away on time to London pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the children are anxious about starting a new school, particularly Sam who finds it difficult to make friendswrong. Even Jane starts to wonder if it It was a good idea, isolated in a house miles from anywhere, finding it difficult going to get come to know the local communitya head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330544969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria SempleB0CKD1L5JL|title=Where'd You Go, BernadetteRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
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|summary=Much like the missing question mark in Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the title it would seemstrange, Bernadette has disappeared. Maria Semple's ''Where'd You Goreclusive Bear, Bernadette'' works as both a physical and emotional question. Bernadette Fox he is the wife of Elgie Branch, a star at Microsoft in Seattle, brought up far from bustling cities and mother of 15 year old, Bee. The narrative begins with Bee wondering where her mother had gonebusy human society, but then quickly moves to an epistolary format told in e-mails, notes and messages between the major players, including some rather obnoxious mothers at Beeforests of Washington's school, one of whom also works at Microsoft with ElgieOlympic Peninsula. We are taken back After Bear dies and a few weeks to when Bernadette was around brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a seemingly somewhat angry mother prior to her mysterious disappearance. One of the delights about the bookpirate radio transmitter, which along with being very funny Petr goes on issues like helicopter parentinga journey through the forest, corporate life andbroadcasting the strange, er, Canadians, is that it emerges that Bernadette is more than a wife wild and mother but has a past career of her own as a talented architect which she has sacrificed for one reason or another. Thus, in many ways she disappeared long before her physical disappearancerarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316204269</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher CurrieSarah Marsh|title=The Ottoman MotelA Sign of Her Own
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|summary=Simon Sawyer is 11 years oldAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, forced on Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a road-trip with his parents to visit his grandmotherworld of silence, Iriseverything about her life changes. Iris is living Living in some backwater town hemmed in on three sides by corn fieldsa time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and on the fourth by the sea. The town Ellen is called Reception in sent to a heavy-handed attempt at ironyschool where she is taught to lip read, as we learn but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the town actually has no reception for mobile phones deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is pretty much isolated from the rest working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the world but for a few dirt tracks leading outespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908737190</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susie Steiner1472263936|title=HomecomingThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=3.5
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|summary=Ann and Joe Hartle are approaching their sixties and hoping It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to slow down a littleGreece. Their sheep farming life is starting She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to take its toll return, but Mary and it’s an enticing thought Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that they may it would be able a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to pass the farm on to their son Max. The only problem is that the farm is hardly making any profit and Max is not the most capable person family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the worldfirst of several annual visits. Added She grew to thatlove her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, Max’s wife Primrose is expecting a baby but was wary - and that is not without its difficultiesfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. The Hartle’s other son, Bartholomew, is far away in London trying He was proud of his close connections to run his own business the Junta and also scared about committing to expected his girlfriend, Ruby. The family has started to fall apart over the years uphold his values but when things go badly wrong on the farm including a barn fire and a virus that spreads through the sheep and newborn lambs, there is the opportunity saw no reason to pull together accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and start anewgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. Is this something that the family can do or will they fall apart even more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571297196</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val HarrisDean Koontz|title=The Song the Waves Sing After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident.5 Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|summary=Some time has passed since we [[Sea Creatures by Val Harris|last saw]] the Moon familyThe village is isolated and poor. Charlie Moon has been released from prison. His sister Olivia is in New York but Jenna is still in Cornwall, where sheIt's turned surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the family home into a B&Bvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Their father Brendan is a reformed character The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and he's moved to Looeeven gallows, where he's a partner in an art galleryif needed. But everyone's life has its ups and downs: Olivia The fear of being buried alive is made redundant an existential superstition in the village and the only logical move that is back to the UK. Then Brendan overhears reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a conversation and realises that his business partner man is deep in an art fraudtolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=O H RobssonB0BYF82CXT|title=The SparkSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
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|summary=Kristoffer lives ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house on the edge , stuck in a depressing rut of a lake in Western Norway with his dog boredom and disappointment, when Terry and occasional company from his friend Mats. By profession he’s a photographer Fiona – glamorous, successful and enough business comes his way to keep him the way he wishes to live. He’s relaxed - too very much so at times when you’re relying on him (always a mistake) to be punctual. There has been the occasional girlfriend - some of them pretty stunning - but none of them ever came up to Eva whom he met when they were both in their teens and working love – move in the local hotel to earn some moneynext door. His grandfather has a summer cabin up in Despite their different outlooks on life, the mountains couples befriend each other and Kristoffer’s happy life appears to go up to spend time with him and take him his suppliesimprove for both pairs. You might think that’s pretty idyllic - But all is not what it seems, and it istheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BJOS364</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan ShepherdShalini Boland|title=The Madman's DaughterSilent Bride|rating=3.5
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|summary=Teenager Juliet Moreau Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has had been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a hard life since her father was vilified wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Victorian societyAlice and the wedding is planned and set. Thinking him long deadWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, she scrapes a living beaming with pride and excitement as best she can surveys the congregation – but a chance discovery at a macabre event leads their friends assembled to her celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to learn that he face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is alive and waiting for her life is cast into chaosto become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007500203</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A M Homes1787636003|title=May We Be ForgivenThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=''May We Be Forgiven'' is not an easy book to summarise. The book is narrated by Harold, a fairly pedestrian academic teacher It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and aspiring writer of history Caroline went backpacking around Greece and particularly arrived on the Nixon eraisland. We don Rachel wasn't have to wait long for the catalyst that changes his life fundamentally over the course of a year. His high flyingexactly innocent but she was, younger brotherperhaps, Georgenaive, is involved so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a car accident shortly after Thanksgiving and an adulterous encounter will change the lives while before he made any sort of Harold physical approach to her and George foreverby that time she was obsessed by him. AM Homes offers a biting satire of Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the American Dream, taking swipes at materialism, families that are more nuclear fallout than nuclear, Internet sex sites island and in particular in the dependence on drugs and psychiatrists to keep people on bar where all the straight and narrowgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847083234</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert GoolrickAmanda Craig|title=Heading Out to WonderfulThree Graces
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|summary=Charlie Beale returned from Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the war in Europe and 1948 found him in Brownsburg, Virginia-nation novel. HeThere'd been driving around looking for somewhere to settle s something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and all he had with him were two suitcases. One contained capture it, crafting an excellent set image of butchersthe country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she' knives - and s practically synonymous with the other was full genre of moneycontemporary social fiction at this point. Brownsburg seemed like She has such a fine place to stay and before long he had gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a job with Will Haislett way that feels natural and the Haislett family became ''his'' family. He'd never hankered after children but their five-yearlived-old son, Sam found a place in his heart. Life might have been good if it had continued in this vein, never making them ciphers for social commentary but Charlie Beale met Sylvan Glassinstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.s|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953677</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mohsin Hamid152915118X|title=How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising AsiaPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Inside Mohsin Hamid's ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising AsiaPineapple Street'' is a bitter-sweet love the story disguised as a self help bookof three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. It's a well structured concept Darley and George are sisters and works nicely. Each chapter Sasha is presented in the format of those common married to the self help genretheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, with advice like only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn'Move to t readily accepted into the Citytribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'Get an Education' etcd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, although a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the chapter entitled 'Be Prepared to Use Violence' is a notable omission furniture from most business tomes Pineapple Street, so Sasha and self help booksCord can move straight in. After some general chatty comments in the self help book style Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the attention turns reality. Darley and Georgiana start to two people who are named only call Sasha 'the boygold digger' and . She's living in 'the pretty girl', charting their rise and fall from rural poverty in an unnamed Asian country (although '' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it certainly feels like Pakistan) to business success and wealth in 'the city. The two are not a couple, but their lives cross at frequent times and he, in particular, remains infatuated with his childhood acquaintanceGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144663</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward Kelsey MooreEmily Critchley|title=The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-EatOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=In Plainview84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, Indiana there are three women who have been friends since their teens. Forty years after they first met they're still known but now she is facing a move as the Supremesher son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, the name given as Edie is starting to them by Big Earl at his All-You-Can-Eat dinerlose her memory. The diner's now run However, Edie is tormented by his sonthe memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, Little Earlwho went missing over 60 years ago, but you'll find and the Supremes at worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the table in thing that reveals the window every Sunday, after church, along with their familiestruth of what happened all that time ago. Odette tells us her own storyAfter 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, from just as she was the last time she was born in a sycamore treesaw her, which made she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her . And yet as she remembers the fearless soul past, she isforgetting more and more in her day to day life. But now Will sheuncover the truth about Lucy's up against something which even she might not be able to face down. Clarice was always the well-brought-up young lady as well as being a musician of some considerable meritdisappearance before her move, but and before her husband is causing her problems. Even serial philanderers would be in awe of what Richmond gets up to.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444758020</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor Henderson0008506337|title=Ten Thousand SaintsThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=3.5
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|summary=Eleanor Henderson's debut novel 'The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Ten Thousand Saints'' is set in late 1980s Vermont andLeary was all-consuming, more memorably, New Yorkapparently on both sides. Opening Margo was just sixteen when they fell in 1987 we discover in the second sentence that love. Richard was twenty-one of the two boys hiding under the stands to the Vermont school football field on match day will die that night. It's a powerful opening. From then on, the book deals first with Teddy's death and then with the life he has left behind in the form of his friend Jude, Judedescribed by Margo's sort of step sister Eliza and Teddymother as 's an older brother Johnnyman'. It Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a world of broken homes glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the trinity Isle of sex Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and drugs went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and rock and roll, or more specifically punkSasha. Henderson is particularly good at evoking the underground scene Life was lived in New York London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the time before family home on the unlikely combination Isle of AIDS and mayoral intervention combined Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to clean up the cityleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872194</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dickinson1914585402|title=The SchismDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=Patrick Farrell works for I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a company that reclaims credit cards from those in debt. He doesn't particularly enjoy the work, but couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it gives him plenty of opportunity to visit his schizophrenic brother, Mike, which he does regularlywas. Mike used to be It was a fairly decent boxergripping, emotionally wounding read, but now his only fight is against the paranoid delusion and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that there are people watching him all the timeI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434228</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Syrie JamesLucy Ashe|title=The Missing Manuscript of Jane AustenClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler'A newly discovereds Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, incredibly rarewe learn, handwritten manuscript of on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a previously unknown Jane Austen Novel is lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to appear at auction in Londondetail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. The neatly written but heavily corrected pages are for A stage presence, a charm, a full length work entitled ''joie de vivre''. The Stanhopes'difference between a hard-worker, and a star.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0425253368</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick AlexanderHeather Fawcett|title=The French HouseEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=CC was trapped in a job Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she no longer felt able has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to do in a city which wasnwrite her life't really hers work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. Her boyfriendSo when she finds herself far, Victorfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, had moved having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to France to live in a farmhouse he'd inherited redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and whilst giving everything up insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and moving out there delight, much to join him wasnEmily't s frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the most rational decision she'd ever taken Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it ''did'' feel like a step was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the right directionnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Only - there The deaths were a couple uncountable, and the loss of problemslivelihoods was widespread. The south fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of France in January can be bitterly cold, particularly when you're priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a good way up dog outside a mountainconvenience store. And itHe wasn's going to feel even worse when t a dog person but the property youconvenience store owner're going s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to lacks some of open his car door and Tamon the most basic facilities - amongst them most of a roofdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857896350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley GrayChristopher Bowden|title=The King's JockeyMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison ran out in front Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of the Kinga seemingly ordinary woman's horse at the Epsom Derby: life, carried out by her nephew after she has died of her injuries. Her actions are often quoted in history books The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and whether you think her a little bit of indulgence to be a suffragette martyr or young nephew had had a deluded woman, few are ignorant of her or what she did. But how many people remember the jockey who was up on much more interesting life than that fateful day? Few will know his name, or that what happened at the Derby would haunt him for years nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to come as he believed himself responsible for killing Emily Davison. ''The King's Jockey'' is the story of Herbert 'Bertie' Jones, of the life which brought him an obligation to the Derby and of what happened in the years afterwardsfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907947612</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jami AttenbergJennifer Mason|title=The MiddlesteinsPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Edie Middlestein almost has the American dream within her grasp. She trained as a lawyerHere at Bookbag Towers, has a husbandwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, a daughter who followed her professional footsteps dominatrix and a son married to an ambitious wife who provided him with two high-achieving children. There are just two flies unintentional detective in the ointment preventing the dream's arrival[[Preposterous: 1. Edie is so morbidly obese that An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she has to undergo surgery; investigated and 2unravelled a series of disappearances. this is the moment In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her husband chooses mind to leave hersolving a murder... Apart from that…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689325</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi PicoultWill Carver|title=The StorytellerDaves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sage Singer is scarred both mentally and physically and has never really got over her mother's death. She works Five strangers come together in one moment as a baker as the night work allows her suicide bomber prepares to hide away from people and sleep in daylight hours, but she does develop one friendship which probably only happens because it seems non-threateningdetonate his vest on a London tube line. Josef WeberAs their fates overlap, pillar of the local communitystory is told in backwards order, attends the same grief counselling group as Sage - and he's in his nineties. But when Sage relaxes into the relationship Josef tells her about himself and asks her leading up to help him to die. Sage is shocked at the request and then repelled as Josef tells her more of his storyfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444766635</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula LichtarowiczJennifer Mason|title=The First Book of Calamity LeekPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I know I'm going to face 'A struggling poetry zine, a dilemma mom-and-pop mobile diner in reviewing this bookthe Northern California redwoods, becausea 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, really, the best way to approach it is to come at it knowing nothing at all. And ita women's very hard to write about it without giving some important things away! Let's start track coach with the basics, in that this is a story told by Calamity Leekyen for bullwhips, a child living together billionaire with her 'sisters'a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, taken care of by 'aunty' and occasionally visited by 'mother'. Calamity is a man serving a life sentence in charge of Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a book called the Appendixcheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in which everything the girls could possibly need to know about their lives is writtenGeorgia... They live closeted in their own small farmyard area, protected from the outside world by 'the wall', their enemies being This is just a sample of the 'injuns' cast of characters and 'demonmales'settings in Preposterous. I knowAs you can see, that's a lot some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of words in quotes. Let me explainthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944228</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will StorrB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Hunger and the Howling Calculations of Killian LoneRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Killian Lone grows up It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a home lacking in love and securitychance to breathe out. For these he relies on But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his elderly aunt Dorothy, an accomplished cookmind. Indeed his visits to Dorothy revolve around food as he absorbs all she can teach him, slowly inheriting her passion and skill along with her knowledgeHe's been convicted of murder. This attachment to food then becomes his career choiceWith the current state of medical knowledge, leading it's hard to think otherwise than that the unfortunate discovery of a family secret that prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has remained hidden for spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a very long timerelatively new prison. Why 'unfortunate'? ThereHe's a reason for its concealment… a veryjust getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, very good reasonand learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720807</amazonuk>
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