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==New Reviews==
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|author=Kate Mosse
|title=The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This book of 14 short stories and a short play is based on the idea
of haunting. Sometimes the haunting is the ghostly kind and sometimes
something psychologically deeper and more primal. All the stories drift to
us from different eras, both past and recent, but all have one thing in
common: they centre on a troubled person. For instance we meet Gaston, a
French child who witnesses an odd event on the beach just after losing his
parents. In the inevitably touching but beautiful ''Red Letter Day'' we
travel to a French castle with a woman who has an appointment with the past.
If you want something completely different, there's ''The Duet'' which draws
us into a fascinating dialogue and then hits us with a sting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148041</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Charlie Hill
|summary=When I began reading this book I wasn't entirely sure that I liked it. I didn't quite know how to take the Nina from the title. She's a twenty year old Nanny, employed by the editor of the London Review of Books and living near Regent's Park in North London. The book contains her letters to her sister, Victoria living at home in Leicestershire, and tell of the events and happenings in her life as a Nanny and then, going on, in her life as a student at Thames Polytechnic. Initially it felt like she was name dropping - Alan Bennett lives over the road and drops in for dinner most days; the father of Will and Sam, the two boys she is nannying, is Stephen Frears; down the road lives Claire Tomalin and her partner Michael Frayn...and yet, given chance, you begin to see that she isn't awed by the notoriety of these people (indeed, she tells her sister that Alan Bennett was in Coronation Street!) and actually they are just the neighbours and so it is less important that Alan Bennett (AB as he's referred to in the book) comes around for dinner every night since he isn't there for fame value but rather for his own unique place in this rather crazy family life memoir!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922765</amazonuk>
}}
