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|title=The Jade Boy
|author=Cate Cain
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jem Green is taken from his boring life as a servant to a duke to make the acquaintance of the duke’s new friend, Count Cazalon. Cazalon takes a worrying interest in twelve-year-old Jem, and the unease he initially feels is made even worse when he meets two children in Cazalon’s household and starts to find out just how evil the man is. Can Jem save himself, and the city of London, from Cazalon’s evil plans?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772297</amazonuk>
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|summary=The ten year old me would have absolutely adored this Victorian ghost mystery and I’m now considerably older than 10 and still devoured this lovely book in one sitting. Winter, 1881 and Tilly has sneaked into the grounds of Frost Hollow Hall. She is not supposed to be there. Ten years previously a young boy, Kit Barrington, drowned in the lake and as Tilly skates on the frozen surface she forgets the stories she has heard in the village and is no longer afraid. Then the ice breaks and she is underwater. Close to death, Tilly is saved by a beautiful boy. It is Kit’s ghost and he needs Tilly’s help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571295444</amazonuk>
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|summary=For some people it's impossible to tell another person that they love them and both are damaged. Iris could not tell her daughter, Vivie, that she loved her and Matthew, Vivie's childhood friend, neighbour and would-be lover could not tell her how he felt. For all three the result was years of separation with Vivie feeling that she was fundamentally unloveable and the whole situation was further complicated by Iris's mental disintegration and her treatment removing most of her memories of Vivie's childhood. If that sounds depressing and soul-destroying then I am doing ''Speaking of Love'' an injustice because it's also a story of trust, reconciliation and learning to speak about your feelings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4401G4</amazonuk>
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