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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me This WayOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=Sabine DurrantAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=People should be sad when their husband or wife dies. It’s just Anuri spent her childhood on display to the way things work. Whether it’s a sudden accident or a long time coming deteriorationworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, there should be sorrow where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and maybe a few tearsinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. But Lizzie Now Anuri is a little bit relieved when Zach dies in a horrible car crash. He was her husband twenties and she loved him but there was more is slowly trying to it than that. Now it’s a year later regain her confidence andto get her life back, for the first time, Lizzie feels strong enough suing her step-mother to visit take down the scene of the accidentcontent about her. But all Anuri is not right when she gets therebattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and as receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she pulls at a loose threadis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the whole jumper starts to unravelnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. As Can she starts to question everything she believed to be truesave her sister, she can’t help but wonder if and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the whole story of that night hasn’t quite come out yet.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hennerley1529153298|title=I Really, Really Want ItThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Andrew Manning It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what I would call 'a fixers worrying Miv's family, though. HeWomen have been disappearing. Well, they's got decades of experience in sorting out those ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'littledoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' problems which so plague celebrities and, frankly, if hes upset because she's got overheard that her father wants to bend move the law just a tiny bit - or even more - to earn his crust then thatfamily 'Down South's OK by him. HeWhen you's wealthyre from Yorkshire, with Down South is a list of clients to die for (and some will...) and happily unfaithful to his long-term partnerfrightening, foreign place, Johnny on a regular basisbest avoided. And Johnny does exactly For Miv, the same. When we meet Andrew his main problem is Shelley Brightmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's 'Englandnot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's Sweetheart', chartstopped talking -topping singer and television star. Andrew prefers to think of her as 'a vicious, avaricious snake, a nasty, nasty piece of work' - and he's probably got the right of itanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1035906708|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
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|summary=At a quarter past two on a Wednesday afternoon in August Rose disappeared - completely. It didn't look We tend to think of Maria Callas as though there had been a crime - there were no signs of violence and some of her clothes and a rucksack were missing. It was possible that she had simply gone of her own accord: Greek, but she was beautifulborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, headstrong in December 1923 and just slightly wilful. Twenty years later her younger sister, Anna has still not come only moved to terms with what happened and it's affecting her whole lifeAthens when she was thirteen. Her relationship with Martin is foundering and she can't make up original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her mind whether father changed itto 's what she wants - or doesnCallas't want, with probably a slight bias to make it more manageable in the latterStates. Finally When she decides was back in Athens - supposedly so that she must try could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and find Rose made no secret of her preference for herselfher elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AscendantAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Alethea CroweThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=The Greek Gods never died - Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in factEdinburgh, they are still very much on this planetrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, causing chaos tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and interfering with look after the lives of mortalsbusiness, albeit on as Ness is planning to take a much smaller scale than in their heydaytrip to Canada to get away for a while. Whilst Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the front cover suggests 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 thriller much business, or in the vein of The Da Vinci Code or something of its ilkmatch-making, Alathea Crowe but Ness has created something with excellent characters full confidence in her abilities, and interesting prose. Itthere's just always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a shame she didn't stick to the thriller aspect more, as I felt the book lost its hold on me fairly early on.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373580</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fatty O'Leary's Dinner PartyDean Koontz|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithThe Bad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=SoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Fatty is from Fayetteville in Arkansas and he his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his wife Betty dohome, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has to be saidtrashed his house! The thing is, err on Benny is the rather large sidevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. At home in Fayetteville their size causes them no problems but when Betty books her Irish-American husband He is a trip to Ireland for his birthday the problems beginnice person. Poor FattyA really nice person. It seems So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the calamities start 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 the beginning nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of their trip Benny, and they are both funny will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and painful to read at times. Just when you think things Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can't possibly get any worse for Fatty figure out who exactly they do indeed get worse. And then worse again. And again! The escapades are so gently, lovingly written then I felt nothing but sympathy for poor Fatty.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973007</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Man at the HelmKatherine Howe|authortitle=Nina StibbeA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=What's that about treating Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an ending purely as another beginning? inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When the marriage she hears there is to be a hanging of Elizabeth's parents ends, some pirates in the foursome of Lizzietown, her older (she decides to go and wiser beyond her years) sister and kid brother watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the mum move to a Leicestershire village to begin againhands of two vicious pirates. But things She hides away, so that they don't start swimmingly – the entire village seems find and kill her too, and then to turn against escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and maintain their outsider status. Thinking this down to joining the D-notice put on their parents (for divorce means notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a woman being unacceptably short of trustworthiness in the early 1970s) the girls put their efforts into match-makingcabin boy. Little do they realise She soon finds herself in the lack thick of options they face – and the life-changing events that arise things when they witness there is a glimmer mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of success…life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241003156</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=In the Beginning Was the SeaMaybe Tomorrow|author=Tomas GonzalezPenny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'In has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the Beginning Was more you read, the Seamore you'll suspect that he' is s on the first novel written by Colombian author Tomas Gonzalezautistic spectrum. It was written over 30 years ago but Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the work has only just been translated into Englishlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. It tells Missed shifts or the story of J. and Elena, two intellectuals who have grown sick of their life of endless parties and highbrow conversations and have decided need to move be away from the mainland on time to set pick Bo up a new life that focuses on nature from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the purity of hard work and the elementswrong. They bicker and alienate the locals, and neither of them is prepared for the brutal weather and the microscope that such surroundings put on their less-than-perfect relationship It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB0CKD1L5JL|title=All Cut UpRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jimmy and his Mum were at Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the supermarket when she disappeared. He didn't immediately think that it was a problem - after all she was suffering strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from dementia bustling cities and out busy human society, in the forests of roughly the last hundred and fifty visits to GetItAll heWashington'd lost his mother on thirty five of thems Olympic Peninsula. But - she wasn't usually gone for this long After Bear dies and then there was the nagging worry that she might have become the latest victim of the Acton Axeman - a serial killer who was targeting blondbrief sojourn in human company, slightly-plump women wearing green - and armed with only a description which fitted Jimmy's Mum to pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a teejourney through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1499167156</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Good GirlSarah Marsh|authortitle=Mary KubicaA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A young teacher is kidnapped leaving After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her family distraughthearing. Wealthy and influential Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, they call everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the big guns use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to find their daughterlip read, but is there more to physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the storysame time, Bell is working on other inventions and indeed to the familyideas, than meets the eye?and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453116</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia MacgregorB0BC3YTCMR|title=What Milo SawGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Milo ''This story is 9 years old and slowly going blind. He lives with his Mum, his Gran and Hamlet the pet pig but not Dadfor everyone. Milo's Dad lives in Abu Dhabi because Dad made ' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Tart pregnantIncident happened. One dayShe was a very bright student, once the emergency services go awaya bit too nerdy if truth be told, Mum breaks and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it to Milo that Gran can't live with them anymore and has to go into a homes contagious. It doesn't end there though. Milo s not easy being a black girl whose skin is on a mission; he and Hamlet will bring Gran back84% white. It's She had a bit of a difficult mission for a 9crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and pig 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 accomplish alone though so first his house and he needs raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to convince at least one adultgive her a lift home. Good luck Milo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Romain Puertolas1472263936|title=The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea WardrobeFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ajastashatru Oghash Rathod is an Indian fakir or an Indian conman, depending on your viewpointIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. The day he decides She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to buy a new bed of nails he does what any of us return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would do: jumps on be a plane from the Indian sub-continent to Paris with some misappropriated money in order to shop at Ikeapity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. His nefarious means will only go so far, therefore he decides Her trip to sleep the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the store overnightfirst of several annual visits. What’s She grew to love her grandmother and the problem? Ikea has bedrooms family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and everythingfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. However, Ikea also has security which is how Ajatashatru gets He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to travel around Europe in a less than conventional way chased by a homicidal taxi driveraccommodate them. ThatHis prejudices included Helena's the sort of thing that could happen to anyone though, isnred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558409</amazonuk>s Scottish ancestors.
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{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=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. 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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=Without YouThe Grave Listeners|author=Saskia SarginsonWilliam Frank
|rating=4
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|summary=Eva The village is 17 years old isolated and missing following poor. It's surrounded by a sailing disasterWitching Forest. Most people presume she died at seaAnd the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, but her sister Faith hasroofs on homes, welland even gallows, faithif needed. And in fact, Eva The fear of being buried alive is not dead, but she’s not safe either. Held captive on an island just off existential superstition in the coast, she village and that is so near and yet so far from homethe reason Volushka, and with every daya drunken, weekself-indulgent, month that passes, her desperation growslazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958707</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark LawsonB0BYF82CXT|title=The DeathsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In an idyllic enclave ''Bill and Amanda are living in Buckinghamshirea semi-detached house, within spitting distance stuck in a depressing rut of Milton Keynesboredom and disappointment, there are four houseswhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. You might even call them mansionsDespite their different outlooks on life, as they are not the sort of homes couples befriend each other and life appears to which most people can aspireimprove for both pairs. But the residents are all is not ''most people'' - they are rich what it seems, and the lives they lead their increasingly interconnected relationships are different. They're not the old aristocracy fated for whom the houses were built, but the new elite - barristers, business tycoons, bankers, magistrates, doctorstragedy. One of their number runs a security business, so they're all protected by expensive security systems and when they leave their little haven it's usually to travel first class to London or on their way to catch a flight. The Eight seem to lead charmed lives - but the financial world is changing and there isn't the money around that there used to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144723569X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=HerThe Girls of Summer|author=Harriet LaneKatie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, 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 while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Emma is a harassed young mother to a toddler with another baby on Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the way-nation novel. Used to being a successful professionalThere's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, she is finding crafting an image of the country as it difficult to cope with everything on a daily basisstands in one particular moment. Therefore, it hardly surprises her to receive a call from a stranger telling her To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she has found her wallet which Emma did not even realise that she had lost. Nina calls round 's practically synonymous with the offending wallet and Emma is immediately drawn to genre of contemporary social fiction at this composed, organised, successful woman whose life seems to epitomise everything that Emma wishes point. She has such a gift for. However, as their friendship blossoms, it becomes apparent to weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the reader, although not to Emma, that things are not what they seem. Apparently when Nina first set eyes on Emma, she recognised lives of her as characters in a face from the pastway that feels natural and lived-in, and an unwelcome one at that. We soon discover that Nina has an ulterior motive never making them ciphers for befriending Emma as she sets out to seek revenge for something that Emma did many years agosocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297865056</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fredrik Backman152915118X|title=A Man Called OvePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ove (pronounced 'Oo-veh') Pineapple Street'' is a man the story of principle who tries three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to do their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the right thingtribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, ensure the no parking area remains soTilda, is a good Swedish citizen asks Cord and tries Sasha if they'd like to be civil to his neighbours (even move into the foreign ones)Pineapple Street property. However he comes over as Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a total grumpstreet or so away, which they own. He was even ousted from his position as Chairman They won't need any of the Residents Association by a vicious coupfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. IndeedNominally, hethey had a choice but that wasn's t the sort of person who, when life gives him lemons, finds that theyreality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 're rotting in the middlegold digger'. There She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so much more often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his story than family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that though; there was a story secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that started a long time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775790</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LandlineMadelaine Lucas|authortitle=Rainbow RowellThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Georgie McCool has always known what she's wanted and pursued it until she has it. She got her dream job writing comedy'Love, sheI's about d read, was supposed to get her own show, be a light and she got her dream guyweightless feeling, Neal.but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Sussman0008506337|title=Shifting ColoursThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Celia works as a maid for the Steiners in South Africa; a safe job in a white household for a The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'black' to have at a time Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when the country lurches from suspicion to brutality and back againthey fell in love. At least it Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'wasan older man'' a safe job. The Steiners have decided to move Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to England Oxford and, after difficulty in having their own childrena glittering career. In the event, want to adopt Miriam, Celia's youngest child they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. For so many reasons Celia can't refuseMargo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. Rita Steiner promises Miriam an exciting adventure The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and she promises Celia regular contactSasha. When mother Life was lived in London and daughter are miles apartholidays were spent at Sandcove, they both come to realise the same thingfamily home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: sometimes promises are only as good as the people making ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them and that goes for promised lands too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=TouchedDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Joanna BriscoeDavid F Ross|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rowena Crale I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and her family have moved to a new home, having uprooted an ill remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and unwilling mother in law to take possession of affecting itwas. There are five children in the family...but six if you count young Eva’s imaginary friend. Eva is the family outcast; dressed in her grandmother’s clothes and preparing to attend It was a different school to her siblingsgripping, she is often away from her familyemotionally wounding read, who seem to care little for her or her whereaboutsand rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590824</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roopa FarookiLucy Ashe|title=The Good ChildrenClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Saddeq family year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are an example of success for their friends and neighbours in Lahoresisters, twins no less. Mr Saddeq is a doctor with his own practiceIdentical on the outside but not, we learn, sons Sully and Jakie are studying medicine in on the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matchesinside. And not on stage, either. However the four Because there'good' children would view their success differentlys a lot that builds a dancer. Each reacts differently Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to the futures detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that their caring father and calculating mother have mapped out for them and plough their own furrows as far as theydon're permitted but t come from the gravitational pull of home remains classroom. A stage presence, a constant through their lives and alsocharm, to some extenta ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, for the generation that followsand a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755383427</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me Like ThisHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Bret Anthony JohnstonEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Four years agoEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, a family lost their brotherand she has travelled extensively, their older sonand researched meticulously, their grandchild. One day he was thereto write her life's work, and the next he was gonevery first encyclopaedia of faeries. Missing. Presumed kidnapped or perhaps worse. Their lives have moved on Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, but their hearts haven’tshe is not so good with people. Walls have gone up around them So when she finds herself far, thoughfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, to protect from having somehow offended the painvillage matriarch, the crank callsshe is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the false leadsright track. So when news comes that Justin Campbell has been spotted Enter Wendell Bambleby, alive her dashingly handsome andinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, seeminglyall charm and delight, well, it’s quite a lot much to take inEmily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788051</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Watson-Grant1398515388|title=SkidThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Things have changed in First of all, it was the Beaumont household since they lived earthquake, deep in the Louisiana swampland. Skid (or Terence when he's bad)ocean floor, his mother Valerie which created the tsunami and brother Frico have moved to an apartment this, in turn, caused the citynuclear meltdown. The two older brothers have left home result was complete and the lads' father is still missing, presumed dead, after he disappeared beneath the alligator-filled water back homeutter devastation. The city is a weird place for our hero as he becomes 16. It's just as dangerous as deaths were uncountable, and the swamp ever loss of livelihoods was as gangs that roam the streets seeking outsiders like Skidwidespread. Skid is realising The fact that girls can be many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a problem too, although neighbourly Claire may be dog outside a bit differentconvenience store. She worries about him though; it seems that Skid isnHe wasn't so much a name as a cursedog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sugar HallChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Tiffany MurrayMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sugar Hall Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a place patient untangling of transitions. It has recently gained new residents – Lilia Sugara seemingly ordinary woman's life, and carried out by her children Saskia and Dieter. It has lost several portions of the estate, however – several valuable trinkets, the billiard table – as Lilia nephew after she has to sell things to keep the family from povertydied. But apart from things arriving The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and things going, there are things moving – possibly the objects left, possibly the butterfly patterns on the wallpapers. And there are things appearing – such as a lot little bit of actual, living insects, indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and the naked boy who sometimes appears only as a disembodied head it seems to him an obligation to the young exploring Dieter…find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781721432</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys BrayJennifer Mason|title=A Song for Issy BradleyPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-year-old Jacob's birthday. His elder sisterHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, Zippy dominatrix and elder brother Alma have other things going on unintentional detective in their lives but his little sister isn[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In 't feeling well. Four-year-old Issy has retreated to bed and 'Partitions of Unity'', she's rather hoping that sets her mother will come and make her better, but Claire is trying mind to cope with Jacob's birthday party and it's quite solving a while before the family realise that Issy is very illmurder.. She has meningitis and that night she dies in hospital.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma HealeyB0B2N7MVYM|title=Elizabeth is MissingThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maud is a little forgetful as It's the rows 10th of cooling cups of tea will attestDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. She also has a cupboard full of peaches for some reason but not Just to worryput what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. She The world has barely had a family who love her and rally round, a home help and her great friend Elizabethchance to breathe out. Come to think of But for Joe Marr, it, Elizabeth seems to be missing and 's not the notes missile crisis that Maud writes herself each day keep reminding her 's at the front of thishis mind. The problem is He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that no one will listen to herthe prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, let alone believe hera relatively new prison. It also reminds Maud He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of something else; another disappearance a long, long time agothe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003504</amazonuk>
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