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|author= Virginia Macgregor

|title= Before I Was Yours

|rating= 5

|genre= General Fiction

|summary= Rosie can see clearly her future family in her mind. And when that doesn't happen, she adapts. So maybe she won't carry the baby inside her, but that lovely blonde girl at the adoption event could be their new daughter. Yes, she looks like she belongs to them already. It's meant to be. Except it's not. Rosie and Sam don't get to have a genetic child of their own, and they don't get to adopt the perfect blonde girl. They end up with the exact opposite: a boy from Kenya with a peculiar back story and an ardent wish not to be adopted. As optimistic as Rosie and Sam try to be, this isn't quite what they pictured or hoped for.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565229</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Gabrielle Zevin

|summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens to tear their peaceful community apart.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Zoe Duncan~~

~~|title= The Shifting Pools~~

~~|rating= 2.5~~

~~|genre= General Fiction~~

|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase in fiction publishing is ''life-affirming'', closely followed by ''human condition''. The Shifting Pools takes this to a whole new level. Its blurb boasts that it is ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency of life'', whatever that means. It isn't. And that's the problem. This isn't a bad book, but it sets itself up to fail. A cardinal rule of writing is ''focus on the small stuff''. If you set out to write a ''life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions'', you'll struggle. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In her quest for profundity she loses her way.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>~~

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