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|author=Louise BeechJenny Lecoat|title=This Is How We Are HumanBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is a devoted single Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her son, Sebastian - but she can't give mother waiting for years for news of him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that it's time for they will finally learn what became of him to have sex. But will the truth come as an autistic 20 year-olda relief, that's easier said than done. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And it's starting to cause them both problems. what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=19131937131846976537}}
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|author=Ananda DeviOnyi Nwabineli|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of Anuri spent her childhood on display to the shortest books I've read in a long whileworld, but itthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's one increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the most dramatic. ItAnuri's also told childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and pulls very few punchesto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the descriptions stark content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and unromanticsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=09930093440861546873}}
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|authorisbn=C J Carey1529153298|title=WidowlandThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=It's April 19531979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and Adolf Hitlerhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonfamily, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisthough. Women have been disappearing. For yesWell, they've been murdered, Britain caved in the lead-up but to the World War Two that certainly didnhave 'disappeared' doesn'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 sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mainlandfamily 'Down South'. But this When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is most certainly a different Britainfrightening, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childlessforeign place, the husbandless and the widowsbest avoided. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroineFor Miv, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allmove would mean leaving her best friend, not every book can be bannedSharon, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before theyshe're stamped ready for reprintll do anything to prevent that. That is She's not worried about the dangers or that her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerMum's visitstopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=152941198X
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|isbn=08575272311035906708|title=Dog DaysDiva|author=Ericka WallerDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifeWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, EllenNew York, died in December 1923 and it's the first time that only moved to Athens when she's let him downwas thirteen. He's lost, bereft without Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shellfather changed it to 'Callas'). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on make it more manageable in the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someoneStates. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told could get appropriate training for her that voice - she was raised under the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with Nazi occupation by a dog he doesn't want mother who mercilessly exploited her and a load made no secret of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no her preference for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Luckyher elder sister, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themJackie.
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|author=Martin VenningAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Primary ObjectivePerfect Passion Company|rating=24.5
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|summary= Sometimes The Perfect Passion Company is a book starts off slowlydating agency in Edinburgh, but eventually draws you in run by Ness and operating as an alternative to caring about all the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Sometimes it doesn'tNess 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. The basic premise Katie is coming out of a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as break up with a charitybad boyfriend, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, I'm not sure) under so jumps at the auspices of the UNchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, with the primary objective of keeping the peacebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiesIsabel Dalhousie novels, but for situations when that looks unlikely with some new characters who quickly begin to yield results Peace International maintains charm. Katie has no experience in running a call-on list of field operativesbusiness, exor in match-militarymaking, medicsbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to risk their life for the sake of it.lend a hand…|isbn=18004611001846976596
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|author=Karen M McManusDean Koontz|title=The CousinsBad 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary= The rich Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and famous Story family led being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each hanging of some pirates in the Story children - Anderstown, Archer, Adam she decides to go and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother watch. Enthralled and were cut off completely. But nowhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a quarter young boy's death at the hands of a century latertwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, their children have been called and then to return escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the island for the summer by their grandmothernotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. What does she want with She soon finds herself in the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths thick of things when there is a mutiny on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesboard, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family from there we are caught up - and held them apart - for a quarter in her rip roaring tale of a century is about to come crashing downlife on the ocean waves.|isbn=02413769470861547438
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|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1471180158|title=Madame BurovaMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book lets us discover several people Jamie Matson works in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied halfan upper-cast boy (as he would have been called then)class grocery store, for a girl in man who's a humdrum job wanting to become control freak with all the subtlety of a singerhalf brick. Jamie's son, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame BurovaBo, 'has his problems'. He'Tarot-Readers asthmatic and the more you read, Palmist and Clairvoyantthe more you'', to use her familyll suspect that he's sea-front boothon the autistic spectrum. The singer, the scryer and the suffererSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time frequent flier in the family stalllocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. We also see her Missed shifts or the need to be away on her last day, fifty years later, time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiethe wrong. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her It was going to Imelda, and why did it have come to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xhead.
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|authorisbn=Stephen ClarkeB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Petr is a spoof spy storyan orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, that isnin the forests of Washington't about James Bonds Olympic Peninsula. Or Ian Fleming. But it features After Bear dies and a man called Ian Lemmingbrief sojourn in human company, who dresses well and 'likes armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the ladies' and who works for forest, broadcasting the secret servicestrange, but in the planning side wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of things more than the active servicescarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Lemming finds himself put on Suddenly plunged into a mission with world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a female spy called Margaux, and time when the pair end up stranded in Normandyuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, with Margaux on Ellen is sent to a desperate mission school where she is taught to unearth traitors lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the resistance networkdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Lemming desperately trying to keep Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up with her!in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=29521638551035401614
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary 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 an incredibly readable novellaa very bright student, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportbit too nerdy if truth be told, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hesuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's addressing in his second person monologue of not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a narration, we see 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 picked up by . She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his mother's chauffeurhouse and he raped her. In shock, and carted off she even allowed him to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daygive her a lift home. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother was a businesswoman, who clearly Greek by birth, had left northern Italy the family home and refused to return, but Mary and settled Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in Romania with up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her (night-time grandmother and business) partnerthe family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and feelings frightened - of abandonment are still strongher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in He was proud of his close connections to the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to the ladaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's childhood, red hair and see just what he has to tell green eyes - inherited from her as a private farewell addressfather's Scottish ancestors.|isbn=1939810965
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|author=David F RossDean Koontz|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyAfter Death|rating=4.53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Years agoMichael Mace, Danny Garvey was Head of Security, at a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubtop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Everyone predicted Finding himself in a bright future – but his career makeshift mortuary, covered in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onplastic, he has a sense that something very, convinced very bad has happened to return home by him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his "uncle" Higgy to visit dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his dying mothersenses, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform themrealises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn= 19131935001662500467
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|authorisbn=Gail HoneymanB0BVDC2VWH|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Eleanor Oliphant The village is almost 30isolated and poor. She lives in Glasgow, aloneIt's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And she likes it that way. She works 9the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-5, 5 days a week, like fruit provides nutrition and spends its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the weekend not drunkforest provides heat and warmth, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routineroofs on homes, and that's fineeven gallows, thankyouverymuchif needed. Nothing The fear of being buried alive is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for an existential superstition in an office raffle, she sees the man she village and that is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Thenreason Volushka, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Thendrunken, before she knows itself-indulgent, her once quiet life becomes lazy lout of a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it aloneis tolerated.|isbn=0008172145
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|isbn=B08GFSK2WZB0BYF82CXT|title=The Karma TrapSemi-Detached|author=Lisette BoydDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-three years olddetached house, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot a depressing rut of bad luck is being visited on her boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and she has a real talent for attracting dramavery much in love – move in next door. Her Despite their different outlooks on life's chaotic: she dealt with , the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs couples befriend each other and life appears to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmantheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.'
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|author=Matt HaigShalini Boland|title=The Midnight LibrarySilent 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Between life It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in arrived on the Midnight Libraryisland. Everything that could Rachel wasn've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat diedt exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, she lost her jobnaive, her brother won't speak so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpby that time she was obsessed by him. She gave up Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the things that wouldgirls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There've let her escape s something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the wetday and capture it, cold town crafting an image of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directionthe country as it stands in one particular moment. So To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at 23doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate:22, she realises 's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that she isnfeels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street''t made for life is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and decides Sasha is married to dietheir brother Cord. But instead of death They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she finds isn't readily accepted into the librarytribe. Each infinite shelf is filled with books The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, each book providing a chance asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to try another life she could have livedproperty, in a parallel timestreet or so away, which they own. And They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, soSasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, just after midnight on Tuesday they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to live every life she could'vethe GD'.|isbn=1786892731
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|author=Vincent PanettiereEmily Critchley|title=These Thy GiftsOne 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 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 there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that 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?
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|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.
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|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo'2006 is s mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a tumultuous year for glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Catholic ChurchIsle of Wight. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. He worries for Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the future Isle of Wight. Even then the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to home than he ever imagined.leave him in charge''.
As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopDead|author=David F Ross|rating=4. And this isn5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross't just any boy: this is Steves book [[There's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangsterOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and all children victimised remember being absolutely floored by priests who have been protected by his churchhow powerful and affecting it was. But he must also face up to his own failingsIt was a gripping, going right back to his breaking emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of the celibacy vowsit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|isbn=1503199886}}
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|author=Delia OwensLucy Ashe|title=Where The Crawdads SingClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 1952, KyaThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's mother disappeared up Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the dirt track to townoutside but not, wearing her alligator heelswe learn, and never came homeon the inside. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack And not on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but sufferingstage, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fathereither. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed Because there'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for s a mother lot that would never return and grew up far too fast for builds a girl who dancer. Some things that can neither read nor write. Finallybe taught or learnt – discipline, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone attention to survive on the marsh. Eventuallydetail – and some things, as the years drift painfully bythat ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from 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 heldclassroom. SoA stage presence, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to hera charm, she finds a new way of life''joie de vivre''. 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 MarshThe difference between a hard-Girl. Who is Kya nowworker, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?star.|isbn=14721546650861544080
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|isbnauthor=1473692407Heather Fawcett|title=The Book Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dawn Edelstein Emily Wilde is a death doula: that's someone who is there for the person who is dyingan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and researched meticulously, to support their carers. Itwrite her life's a rewardingwork, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifethe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Some fifteen years ago Whilst she was a graduate student is brilliant at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistresearch and speaking to faeries, she was working is not so good with her supervisorpeople. So when she finds herself far, Professor Ian Dumphriesfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, on having somehow offended the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the Nile in Middle Egyptright track. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was Enter Wendell Bambleby, her maiden namedashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the name she published under.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120
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|isbn=02412959551398515388|title=TrioThe Boy and the Dog|author=William BoydSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It First of all, it was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and Martin Luther King were assassinatedthis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. It's also the year when YSK Films are making a movie in BrightonThe result was complete and utter devastation. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon''The deaths were uncountable, or ''Ladder and the Moon'' as it's known on setloss of livelihoods was widespread. Anny Viklund is The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the female star in tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a production which is proving to be just dog outside a little bit racketyconvenience store. There are odd pressures on He wasn't a dog person but the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because convenience store owner's comment that he needs the money, allow a fading star would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to use open his catchphrase, or include a song from car door and Tamon the leading man, whose musical star is fadingdog jumped in.
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|author=Anna BrunoChristopher Bowden|title=Ordinary HazardsMr Magenta|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. And this was one The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that I wanted so badly nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to like but unfortunately, I just wasn't hookedhim an obligation to find it all out.|isbn=1471184862B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbnauthor=1712435728Jennifer Mason|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When Here at Bookbag Towers, we first meet Alex Hannahmet Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], hewhen she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In 's just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention Partitions of doing that: heUnity's been there for a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not she sets her mind to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitissolving a murder.. Good luck with that one, Alex.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Helen FisherWill Carver|title=Space HopperThe Daves Next Door|rating=3.54
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|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from Five strangers come together in one moment as a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good suicide bomber prepares to her she of course missed her mum enormouslydetonate his vest on a London tube line. So when, unexpectedlyAs their fates overlap, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels story is told in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangledbackwards order, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time leading up to the pastfateful moment. 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=14711886631914585186}}
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|author= Claire McGowanJennifer Mason|title=The PushPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-toand-be meet at pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a prenatal class. Itwomen's NCT ''style''track coach with a yen for bullwhips, but not a billionaire with a state-of-the proper NCT. This bit is important-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), but you have to wait on a little to see whycheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... '' This being London, such is just a class attracts a wide variety sample of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most the cast of the ladies the thing they have characters and settings in common is it's their first babyPreposterous. Probably after the first one, As you don't have time for classescan see, or think you've got child-rearing down patsome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=1542019990B09STS96HS
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