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|author=Angela Lambert
|title=Kiss and Kin
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband George. Looking back she's concluded that she was fond of, but probably not ''in love'', with him. They had two sons and it's the elder of these, Roderick who's married to Jennifer. They have three children, but there's been a rather silly feud between the Capels and Jennifer's family, the Gaunts, which dates back to the couple's wedding, when Clarissa Gaunt, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn't. Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother and was overheard.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Liz Fenwick
|summary=On the first anniversary of his wife Miriam's death, Arthur Pepper feels he might finally be up to the task of clearing out her wardrobe. He hasn't got far when he stumbles across a gold charm bracelet he doesn't recognise. If he hadn't been feeling so out of sorts because of the anniversary he would never have rung the phone number he found engraved on the golden elephant. That would have been a shame, because then he would never have set out on his peculiar quest to find out who his wife used to be before she met him. From York to London, Paris and beyond, Arthur pursues Miriam's past and learns things about his wife, his children and himself that he never imagined.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454368</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)
|title=Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There's feeling on edge, and there's feeling on edge. Per is a hotel receptionist partly because his father and grandfather didn't give him a better destiny, and partly because he was working there when it was a shoddy knocking joint. He's feeling on edge because someone has decided to live there, in room seven, and proudly announced that it's about the first place he's had as an adult to live in that isn't a prison – the man, Hitman Anders, has killed three people in separate fits of rage. And now Per is feeling even more on edge because Johanna, a woman in a dog-collar has turned up, tried to blag twenty kronor for a badly-worded prayer in Per's favour (even though she's been sacked as a priest and is in fact a rampant atheist), and has now colluded to jointly with Per become Hitman Anders' criminal hit-job agents. But could anything make a newly rich Per – and Johanna – feel more on edge, than Hitman Anders gaining a conscience…?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008152071</amazonuk>
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