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{{Frontpage|author=Cixin Liu|title=Death's End|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was the final part of a trilogy. Coming in part way through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and more.|isbn=1784971650}}{{Frontpage|author=Andy Briggs|title=Ctrl+S|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= In the near future, life's pretty good. Climate change has been brought under control, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinction, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a simulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions as well as images. But, as with every technology, there is the potential for it to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for the richest and sickest members of society. And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows the trail left by her, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gone...|isbn=1409184641}}{{Frontpage|author= Stephen Baxter|title= World Engines: Destroyer|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in the mid-24th Century, on an Earth massively depopulated and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypse. Suffering from severe culture shock, he tries to adjust to this new world. But all of this is changed when he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission to Phobos all the way back in 2004. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match up, he resolves to find a way to Phobos. But, this new society doesn't believe in space travel and no-one is willing to help him, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore as much as he does...|isbn=1473223172}}
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===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]===
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In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the wayside as these new superhumans dominate the workforce. Without Revision, Dorian can't go to University and can't get a job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the police gaining ground, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have to risk everything to stay ahead...[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire Salvation Lost by Alastair ReynoldsPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]]
[[image:5starHumanity is at a turning point. After Feriton Kane's investigation uncovers the supposedly benign Olyix's plan to harvest humanity in the name of their god, the entire human race prepares to fight back. But when the Olyix's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards Earth, and Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Some people to flee, taking to the stars in an effort to hide from their aggressors, even though only a small percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-on.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]As humanity comes face-to-face with the largest ever threat to their existence, old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. Even if it means planning for a future than none of them will ever live to see...[[:Category:CrimeSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|CrimeFull Review]]
What happens when Utopia is achieved<!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512223.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim? When everyone tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] After her gunship is linked neurologically destroyed in a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to everyone else wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect ready to get back into the fight. However, instead she wakes up a quarter of a millenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingBerossus (or "Bero", melting as the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to be precisecall himself). Bero tells Sanda that the war is long over, and no one knows howthat the entire population of the system is dead. The only option, or whyit seems, or who could be nextis to travel to the nearest star system. In such a circumstance who can be trusted But, as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the stars, it becomes clear to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? Sanda that something else is going on... [[Elysium Fire Velocity Weapon by Alastair ReynoldsMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Across the Void by Rohan QuineS K Vaughn]]===
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Meet JaymiSea epics? So 20th century. He's Try a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gamespace epic. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive Across the Void by Rohan QuineS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Exhalation by Ian DoescherTed Chiang]]===
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A long time agoOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, in these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not science fiction fan it is likely that you have noticed the cinematic version already come across some of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtswork by Ted Chiang. And if If you need further encouragement, donhaven't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is than take this opportunity to do so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Exhalation by Ian DoescherTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness A Memory Called Empire by Chris BrookmyreArkady Martine]]===
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Living The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in 2017 has me longing SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to live in some sort be complex and rich and errs on the side of futuristic Utopiamaking them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does both, in but it's a world of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were disappointment because they're the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send blocks against which the next generations brilliance of humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problemsbook stumbles. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in the Darkness A Memory Called Empire by Chris BrookmyreArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]The Rose, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]the Night, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fictionand the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
It Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is difficult to properly review this book without giving too not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much awaymore in Julian. There She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will be mild spoilers throughout this right from teach the start but I children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will try to avoid the main onesprovide him with food. [[Water & Glass The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Abi CurtisMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in In the 50snear future, but they self-drive cars are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dicknorm -inspired cult classic to reviews a convenient and easy way of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVtransport. StartlinglyHowever, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and when someone hacks into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss systems of privacy to the increasing machination of society eight self-drive cars, their passengers are all headline material in today's newsset on a fatal collision course. It is as if half a century after their inceptionAs everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realitythe public have to judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams The Passengers by Philip K DickJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: Beneath the World, A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) Sea by James Goss and Russell T DaviesChris Beckett]]===
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Consider the DoctorSouth America, 1990. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearBen Ronson, a British police officer, were he arrives in a mysterious forest to keep in touch with even half investigate a spate of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some killings of themDuendes. These silent, say, for examplevaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate unleashing the life of a Time Lord subconscious and that of some of his friends exposing their innermost thoughts and enemiesfears. As luck would have itBen becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he has gets, the space in his TARDIS more he begins to stock up in advanceunravel, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readywith terrifying results.. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: Beneath the World, A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) Sea by James Goss and Russell T DaviesChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghosts of Empire Zero Bomb by George MannM T Hill]]===
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Taking on Meet Remi. He's a band of undead Mummies will take it out fan of running, and indeed has been – from the best of us wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a holiday may be needed. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress youcourier, but London is one he's taking a routine piece of themsamizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Surely Struggling to keep to his schedule, a nice visit he takes to Englandthe Tube, far from the hustle where mysterious people sit with him – and bustle of the Big Appleregale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, will help you as he tries to relax. It find out what is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power wanted of Albion from its slumberhim, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is. Is it? [[Ghosts of Empire Zero Bomb by George MannM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[Artemis The Dragon's Harvest by Andy WeirJason F Boggs]]===
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Welcome to Artemis, Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the first city on fascist new world order called the moon'New Era'. A powerhouse for the rich As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and a once in a lifetime trip for earth touristsself-discovery, and also he became a place a small community changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she'The Devil's ever known but she wouldnDragon't say she's flourishing. In fact, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste mystery of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of townsungates, sleeping on when a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all she can afford through her job as a porterinvolved. However Meanwhile, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich the humans and to this endthe Aesini fight for their very existence, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazzas Nelson's regular clients wants her nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to step up from petty criminal restore the New Era to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuseglory. What Jazz doesn't know is all As Nelson and his friends race against the facts behind what she is being asked clock in order to do. defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[Artemis The Dragon's Harvest by Andy WeirJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[My Name is Sam The City In The Middle Of The Night by Wes StuartCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Who January is the real enemy? This a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is the question which confronts Samscorching sunlight, pure, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbusblazing heat, and the main character in this storytotally uninhabitable. Sam The other half is an unimposing boy who has no past pure darkness and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus whoice, where a creature can freeze to death in seven daysseconds, will destroy the planet and everyone on ittotally uninhabitable. This In the middle is not his choice however: a brief twilight that is the decision of the alien Sereiabarely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, his mentors and guidesstray too close to one side you die, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth close to be savedthe other, but you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvesnecessary for life. In their search Life for a human champion they find the unlikely inhabitants of January is long, and ill-prepared young boyhard, and arduous, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… will anything ever change? [[My Name is Sam The City In The Middle Of The Night by Wes StuartCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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|summary=Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.
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|title= Austral
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Husky. A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation.
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|title= Hunted
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...
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|title=Change Agent
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way to save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far.
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|title= Xeelee: Vengeance
|rating= 2
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Godfrey
|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginning.
The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to live.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Cixin Liu
|title=The Wandering Earth
|rating= 5
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Jack Campbell
|title= The Genesis Fleet: Vanguard
|rating= 5
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the stars it takes with it both the best and the worst examples of itself. The isolation and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of far-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Anne Corlett
|title= The Space Between The Stars
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and realises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to return. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>
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