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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=The Handsome ManWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's De Luxe Cafelife, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=54
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|summary=When I finished Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the fourteenth novel in this series I felt very warm and happyend of the occupation. Things were going so well for all During the characterswar, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and it seemed that Mma Ramotswe soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and Mma Makutsi had reached a wonderful high in their friendshipher mother waiting for years for news of him. Of courseAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, these things cannot last andthe war is finally over, surprisinglytheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, I found that I or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was rather glad of the return of some of Mma Makuti's more outspoken nature! informer who told the Nazis about the radio? Just And what is she getting up to this timeother secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Life of a BananaOnyi Nwabineli|authortitle=P P WongAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=It has all Anuri spent her childhood on display to the makings world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a Victorian melodramaAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. A young girl’s mother dies on Now Anuri is in her 13th birthday. She twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her brother are packed off confidence and to live with evil grandmotherget her life back, strange uncle and flighty auntsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. But this Anuri is very much a 21st century tale battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the protagonistdoing so. Most importantly, Xing Lishe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is a British born Chinese girlthe 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191005321X</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Ghost ChildThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Caroline OveringtonJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=1980s MelbourneIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A triple zero (=999woman? I mean, honestly...) call has She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been received from a house on a notorious estatedisappearing. A child is unresponsive Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The story of how it happened is sketchy Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to say move the leastfamily 'Down South'. And pretty soon When you're from Yorkshire, as it turns into Down South is a murder enquiryfrightening, foreign place, people want answersbest avoided. Need answers For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The MaggieDiva|author=James Dillon WhiteDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5
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|summary=Once upon a timeWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, a Puffer but she was born to Greek parents in Scotland was not someone with too many deep-fried Mars bars and too much Bucky under his beltManhattan, but instead a small steamerNew York, running errant cargo routes in December 1923 and out of the great port of Glasgow, and taking small industrial output from one place only moved to another – especially lesser, shallow-drafted harbours the bigger ships couldn't ply their trade inAthens when she was thirteen. McTaggart is Skipper Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to one Puffer, and a particularly rundown one at that. He and his three crewmates are make it more manageable in need of drinking money, as well, so when the rare chance comes of a job, he leaps at itStates. The job When she was back in hand, taking a special consignment to a remote island Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a visiting American magnate, should be easy – but all mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of themher preference for her elder sister, from Marshall the businessman down to the cabin boy, are surprisingly great at conspiring to make it the most drawn-out voyage ''The Maggie'' has yet to face…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272499</amazonuk>Jackie.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The QuickAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Lauren OwenThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=The Quick Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the debut business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of author Lauren Owena break up with a bad boyfriend, and set in so jumps at the gothic world of Victorian Londonchance to come home to Edinburgh. Owen guides And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us through to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the lives of several Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characterswho quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but specifically James Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and Charlotterather handsome) neighbour, William, siblings living in to lend a Yorkshire mansionhand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4. Left to fend for themselves due to 5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a dead mother terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and an absent fatherhis house gets trashed. Oh, the two grow up closeand someone has delivered a really weird, playing dark games disturbing coffin-sized object to pass his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the time. It thing that has trashed his house! The thing is only when James, Benny is the younger child, moves very last person to London, deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the games become very real indeeddelivery 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 both brother will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and sister must fight to save not just themselves, but their humanityHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me This WayKatherine Howe|authortitle=Sabine DurrantA True Account
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|summary=People should be sad when their husband or wife dies. It’s just the way things work. Whether it’s Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a sudden accident or a long time coming deteriorationfamily who run an inn, and being made to work there should be sorrow and maybe from a few tearsyoung age. But Lizzie When she hears there is to be a little bit relieved when Zach dies hanging of some pirates in a horrible car crash. He was her husband and the town, she loved him but there was more decides to it than thatgo and watch. Now it’s a year later Enthralled andhorrified in equal measure, for Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the first time, Lizzie feels strong enough to visit the scene hands of the accidenttwo vicious pirates. But all is not right when she gets there She hides away, so that they don't find and as she pulls at a loose threadkill her too, the whole jumper starts to unravel. As she starts and then to question everything escape them completely she believed runs away to be truesea, she can’t help but wonder if dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the whole story thick of that night hasn’t quite come out yetthings when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762443</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hennerley1471180158|title=I Really, Really Want ItMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5
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|summary=Andrew Manning is what I would call Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a fixer'control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. HeJamie's got decades of experience in sorting out those son, Bo, 'has his problems'little. He'' problems which so plague celebrities s asthmatic andthe more you read, frankly, if he's got to bend the law just a tiny bit - or even more - to earn his crust then you'll suspect thathe's OK by himon the autistic spectrum. HeSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's wealthy, with a list of clients frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to die for (and some will...) and happily unfaithful go to his long-term partner, Johnny on a regular basisschool. And Johnny does exactly Missed shifts or the same. When we meet Andrew his main problem is Shelley Bright. She's 'England's Sweetheart', chart-topping singer need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and television starput in the wrong. Andrew prefers It was going to come to think of her as 'a vicious, avaricious snake, a nasty, nasty piece of work' - and he's probably got the right of ithead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1500739588</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda NewberyB0CKD1L5JL|title=Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday AfternoonRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5
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|summary=At a quarter past two on a Wednesday afternoon in August Rose disappeared - completelyPetr is an orphan. It didn't look 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: she was beautifulRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, headstrong he is brought up far from bustling cities and just slightly wilful. Twenty years later her younger sisterbusy human society, Anna has still not come to terms with what happened and itin the forests of Washington's affecting her whole lifeOlympic Peninsula. Her relationship with Martin is foundering After Bear dies and she can't make up her mind whether it's what she wants - or doesn't wanta brief sojourn in human company, and armed with probably only a slight bias to pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the latter. Finally she decides that she must try forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and find Rose for herselfrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AscendantSarah Marsh|authortitle=Alethea CroweA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
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|summary=The Greek Gods never died - in factAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, they are still very much on this planet, causing chaos and interfering with the lives Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of mortalssilence, albeit on a much smaller scale than everything about her life changes. Living in their heyday. Whilst the front cover suggests a thriller much in time when the vein use of The Da Vinci Code or sign language was seen as something of its ilkonly savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, Alathea Crowe she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has created something with excellent characters been teaching the deaf and interesting proseusing a system called Visible Speech. It's just a shame she didn't stick to At the thriller aspect moresame time, as I felt the book lost its hold on me fairly early Bell is working onother inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373580</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Fatty O'Leary's Dinner PartyGood Girls Die|author=Alexander McCall SmithAyura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, Fatty is a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from Fayetteville vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in Arkansas and he and his wife Betty do, case it has to be said, err on the rather large side's contagious. At home in Fayetteville their size causes them no problems but when Betty books her Irish-American husband It's not easy being a trip to Ireland for his birthday the problems beginblack girl whose skin is 84% white. Poor FattyShe had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. It seems the calamities start from the beginning of their trip and they are both funny Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and painful to read at timesReggie asked if she would tutor him. Just when you think things can't possibly get any worse for Fatty they do indeed get worseShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. And then worse againShe went to his house and he raped her. And again! The escapades are so gentlyIn shock, lovingly written then I felt nothing but sympathy for poor Fattyshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973007</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=Man at the HelmThe Figurine|author=Nina StibbeVictoria Hislop|rating=4.5
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|summary=What's It was in 1968 that about treating an ending purely as another beginning? Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. When She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the marriage of Elizabethfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents ends, the foursome of Lizzie, ) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her older (and wiser beyond grandparents or understanding her years) sister and kid brother and the mum move to a Leicestershire village to begin againGreek heritage. But things don't start swimmingly – Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the entire village seems to turn against them and maintain their outsider statusfirst of several annual visits. Thinking this down She grew to love her grandmother and the Dfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary -notice put on their parents (for divorce means a woman being unacceptably short and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of trustworthiness in his close connections to the early 1970s) the girls put their efforts into match-makingJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Little do they realise the lack of options they face – His prejudices included Helena's red hair and the lifegreen eyes -changing events that arise when they witness a glimmer of success…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003156</amazonuk>inherited from her father'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=In the Beginning Was the SeaThe Grave Listeners|author=Tomas GonzalezWilliam Frank
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|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It''In the Beginning Was the Sea'' is the first novel written s surrounded by Colombian author Tomas Gonzaleza Witching Forest. It was written over 30 years ago but And the work has only just been translated into Englishvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. It tells The black wood of the story of J. forest provides heat and Elenawarmth, two intellectuals who have grown sick of their life of endless parties and highbrow conversations and have decided to move away from the mainland to set up a new life that focuses roofs on nature homes, and the purity even gallows, if needed. The fear of hard work and being buried alive is an existential superstition in the elements. They bicker village and alienate that is the localsreason Volushka, and neither a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of them a man is prepared for the brutal weather and the microscope that such surroundings put on their less-than-perfect relationshiptolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB0BYF82CXT|title=All Cut UpSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
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|summary=Jimmy ''Bill and his Mum were at the supermarket when she disappeared. He didn't immediately think that it was Amanda are living in a problem semi- after all she was suffering from dementia detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and out of roughly very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the last hundred couples befriend each other and fifty visits life appears to GetItAll he'd lost his mother on thirty five of themimprove for both pairs. But - she wasnall is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'t usually gone for this long 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 blond, slightly-plump women wearing green - a description which fitted Jimmy's Mum to a tee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1499167156</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=The Good GirlGirls of Summer|author=Mary KubicaKatie Bishop
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A young teacher is kidnapped leaving her family distraughtIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Wealthy and influential Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, they call so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in the big guns her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to find their daughterher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, but is there more to looking after his interests on the story, island and indeed to in particular in the family, than meets bar where all the eye?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453116</amazonuk>girls either worked or partied.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia MacgregorAmanda Craig|title=What Milo SawThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Milo is 9 years old and slowly going blind. He lives with his Mum, his Gran and Hamlet Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the pet pig but not Dad-nation novel. MiloThere's Dad lives in Abu Dhabi because Dad made The Tart pregnant. One something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the dayand capture it, once crafting an image of the emergency services go away, Mum breaks country as it to Milo stands in one particular moment. To say that Gran can't live with them anymore and has to go into a home. It doesn't end there though. Milo Amanda Craig is on a mission; he and Hamlet will bring Gran back. Itskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's a bit practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a difficult mission gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a 9way that feels natural and lived-year-old and pig to accomplish alone though so first he needs to convince at least one adultin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves. Good luck Milo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751554243</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Romain Puertolas152915118X|title=The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea WardrobePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ajastashatru Oghash Rathod ''Pineapple Street'' is an Indian fakir or an Indian conmanthe story of three women: Sasha, depending on your viewpointDarley and Georgiana. The day he decides Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to buy their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a new bed of nails he does what any of us would do: jumps on a plane from Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the Indian sub-continent clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to Paris with some misappropriated money in order to shop at Ikeamove into the Pineapple Street property. His nefarious means will only go Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so faraway, therefore he decides to sleep in the store overnightwhich they own. What’s They won't need any of the problem? Ikea has bedrooms furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and everythingCord can move straight in. HoweverNominally, Ikea also has security which is how Ajatashatru gets to travel around Europe in they had a less than conventional way chased by a homicidal taxi driverchoice but that wasn't the reality. ThatDarley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's the sort of thing living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that could happen they abbreviate it to anyone though, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558409</amazonuk>the GD'.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Without YouEmily Critchley|authortitle=Saskia SarginsonOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Eva 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is 17 years old facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and missing following a sailing disasterbring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Most people presume she died at sea However, but Edie is tormented by the memory of her sister Faith haschildhood friend, Lucy, wellwho went missing over 60 years ago, faithand 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. And After 'seeing' Lucy in factthe high street, Eva is not deadjust as she was the last time she saw her, but she’s not safe eithershe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Held captive on an island just off And yet as she remembers the coastpast, she is so near forgetting more and yet so far from homemore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and with every day, week, month that passes, before her desperation grows.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958707</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|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.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lawson0008506337|title=The DeathsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
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|summary=In an idyllic enclave in BuckinghamshireThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, within spitting distance of Milton Keynes, there are four housesapparently on both sides. You might even call them mansions, as Margo was just sixteen when they are not the sort of homes to which most people can aspirefell in love. But the residents are not Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'most peoplean older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - they are rich going to Oxford and the lives they lead are differenthaving a glittering career. They're not In the old aristocracy for whom the houses were builtevent, but they eloped and Richard took her away from the new elite Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well- barristers, business tycoons, bankers, magistrates, doctorsrespected journalist. One of their number runs a security businessThe couple had three children: Rachel, so they're all protected by expensive security systems Imogen and when they leave their little haven it's usually to travel first class to Sasha. Life was lived in London or and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on their way to catch a flightthe Isle of Wight. The Eight seem to lead charmed lives - but Even then the financial world is changing and there isndoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''t the money around that there used she would never be able to beleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144723569X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=HerDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Harriet LaneDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Emma is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a harassed young mother to a toddler with another baby on the way. Used to couple of years back and remember being a successful professional, she is finding absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it difficult to cope with everything on a daily basiswas. Therefore, it hardly surprises her to receive It was a call from a stranger telling her that she has found her wallet which Emma did not even realise that she had lost. Nina calls round with the offending wallet and Emma is immediately drawn to this composedgripping, organised, successful woman whose life seems to epitomise everything that Emma wishes for. However, as their friendship blossomsemotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it becomes apparent to the reader, although not to Emma, my main takeaway was that things are I might not what they seem. Apparently when Nina first set eyes have lavished enough praise on Emma, she recognised her as a face from the past, and an unwelcome one at thatit. We soon discover that Nina has an ulterior motive for befriending Emma as she sets out to seek revenge for something that Emma did many years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297865056</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanLucy Ashe|title=A Man Called OveClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ove (pronounced The year is 1933. The place? Sadler'Oo-veh') is a man of principle who tries to do s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the right thingoutside but not, ensure we learn, on the no parking area remains soinside. And not on stage, is a good Swedish citizen and tries to be civil to his neighbours (even the foreign ones)either. However he comes over as Because there's a total grump. He was even ousted from his position as Chairman of the Residents Association by lot that builds a vicious coupdancer. IndeedSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, heattention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi''s the sort of person who, when life gives him lemons, finds that theydon're rotting in t come from the middleclassroom. ThereA stage presence, a charm, a 's so much more to his story than that though; 'joie de vivre''. The difference between a story that started hard-worker, and a long time agostar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775790</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LandlineHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Rainbow RowellEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Georgie McCool Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has always known what shetravelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's wanted work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and pursued it until speaking to faeries, she has itis not so good with people. She got her dream job writing comedy So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she's about is not sure what she has done, nor how to get redeem herself and put her own showfinal investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and she got her dream guyinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Neal. Onlyall charm and delight, shemuch to Emily's not so sure she has him anymorefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409154912</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Sussman1398515388|title=Shifting ColoursThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Celia works as a maid for First of all, it was the Steiners earthquake, deep in South Africa; a safe job the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in a white household for a 'black' to have at a time when turn, caused the country lurches from suspicion to brutality nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and back againutter devastation. At least it ''The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was'' a safe jobwidespread. The Steiners have decided to move to England and, fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after difficulty in having their own children, want to adopt Miriam, Celia's youngest childthe tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. For so many reasons Celia canHe wasn't refuse. Rita Steiner promises Miriam an exciting adventure a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and she promises Celia regular contact. When mother and daughter are miles apart, they both come to realise Tamon the same thing: sometimes promises are only as good as the people making them and that goes for promised lands toodog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016418</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TouchedChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Joanna BriscoeMr Magenta|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rowena Crale and Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her family have moved to nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a new home, having uprooted an ill safe harbour and unwilling mother in law a little bit of indulgence to take possession of it. There are five children in the family...but six if you count a young Eva’s imaginary friend. Eva is the family outcast; dressed in her grandmother’s clothes nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and preparing it seems to attend a different school him an obligation to her siblings, she is often away from her family, who seem to care little for her or her whereaboutsfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590824</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roopa FarookiJennifer Mason|title=The Good ChildrenPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Saddeq family are an example of success for their friends Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and neighbours unintentional detective in Lahore. Mr Saddeq is a doctor with his own practice[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], sons Sully when she investigated and Jakie are studying medicine in the US and UK respectively and daughters Mae and Lana have made good marriage matchesunravelled a series of disappearances. However the four In 'good' children would view their success differently. Each reacts differently to the futures that their caring father and calculating mother have mapped out for them and plough their own furrows as far as theyPartitions of Unity''re permitted but the gravitational pull of home remains a constant through their lives and also, she sets her mind to some extent, for the generation that followssolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755383427</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Remember Me Like ThisWill Carver|authortitle=Bret Anthony JohnstonThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Four years ago, Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a family lost their brother, their older son, London tube line. As their grandchild. One day he was therefates overlap, and the next he was gone. Missing. Presumed kidnapped or perhaps worse. Their lives have moved onstory is told in backwards order, but their hearts haven’t. Walls have gone leading up around them, though, to protect from the pain, the crank calls, the false leads. So when news comes that Justin Campbell has been spotted, alive and, seemingly, well, it’s quite a lot to take infateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788051</amazonuk>1914585186}}