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|author=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)
|title=The Red Notebook
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Laure. She's a widow in her 40s, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's mugged, and her handbag stolen. Meet Laurent, a middle-aged bookseller, who happens upon the handbag the following morning in the street, just before the binmen take it away, never to be seen again. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to the police as lost property, he decides to take it upon himself to reunite the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, and despite a lot of things being in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cash, no phone and no ID documentation at all. What's more – and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of the mugging…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Curtis Jobling
|summary=We've all read the stories in the papers: children who kill, particularly children who kill children. We've always wondered what went through their minds as they did it. We've also wondered about what happens to them once they're no longer children, when they've grown up in prison and are then deemed fit to be freed back into real life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394599</amazonuk>
}}
