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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol DrinkwaterJenny Lecoat|title=The Forgotten SummerBeyond Summerland

|summary=It is time for Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the annual grape harvest at ''Les Cigales,'' and Jane is preparing herself for a busy day, overseeing end of the workoccupation. At this moment in time During the war, JaneJean's life seems as perfect as it gets: living in father was arrested for listening to a stunning location with a husband who adores her banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and a job that allows her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the freedom to travel. There isNazis, however, a significant cloud hanging over Jane's perfect world: a vindictive mother in law who despises her and the war is determined to make her finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as miserable as possible. Clarrisse Cambon is a woman with an axe to grind and poor Jane is relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the unwilling recipient of her vitriol.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718183088</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yann MartelOnyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the 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?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The High Mountains List of PortugalSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Tomas It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is being thrust into the twentieth CenturyPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and he doesnhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv't like its family, though. Women have been disappearing. He has given himself the job of seeking something out in the High Mountains of PortugalWell, based on an ancient religious diary he found working in an archivethey've been murdered, and but to do have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so he needs the use of his unclefrightening. Miv's upset because she's brand new car overheard that her father wants to get him there and back in timemove the family 'Down South'. His jaw drops when he learns he will have to do the driving himselfWhen you're from Yorkshire, for he cannot make head nor tail of what anything on the infernal machine does and why. It Down South is of course a certain kind of progressfrightening, a looking forwardforeign place, which has become quite anathema to him – for ever since he lost his beloved wifebest avoided. For Miv, beloved child and father, all in the space of a weekmove would mean leaving her best friend, he has walked everywhere backwards – shielding himself from what really is ahead with a padded behindSharon, and never letting sight of what he has lostshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114696</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Moresco and Richard Dixon (translator)1035906708|title=Distant LightDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Our unnamed narrator might We tend to think of Maria Callas as well be the only person alive. He knows he's not – he still goes down Greek, but she was born to the nearest inhabited village to buy things to eat and other necessitiesGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and he sees planes spreading their contrails over the remote area he lives in – but he might as well beonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. A lot of his thoughts are about life, however, for he has little Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to do except notice the nature around him, from the smell of lilies burgeoning with nobody else 'Callas' to see them make it more manageable in this deserted village, to the swallows darting across the ravines of the countrysideStates. Life – and the nature of a light When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that he sees spring into activity every night at what he thought she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was a totally lifeless, empty forest area on land separated from his lookout post in his back garden raised under the Nazi occupation by a deepmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, wooded gorge…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671421</amazonuk>Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan EvisonAlexander McCall Smith|title=This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=The cruise Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Alaska came as something of all the online apps in providing a surprise to Harriet Chancemore personal, tailored service. It had been booked by Ness has asked her husband, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim Harriet decided that younger cousin Katie if she ''would'' go could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take her best friend Mildred along a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with hera bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She might be seventy eightAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but when she thought about it there didn't seem bringing us to be any reason not an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to go 44 Scotland Street and it might give them both a the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new lease of lifecharacters who quickly begin to charm. She and Bernard had been married for fiftyKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-five yearsmaking, but the cruise would not work out as she hoped Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and for some of the strangest of reasons.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Miguel Angel Hernandez and Rhett McNeil (translator)Dean Koontz|title= Escape AttemptThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Immigration Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and radical contemporary art: it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the two themes very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery 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 will certainly take care of Miguel Ángel HernándezBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny''Escape Attempt'' s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are debate-provoking even on their own.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, but brought together into one plothaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, they fall nothing short of creating and being made to work there from a painfully current and ruthlessly polemic novelyoung age. The brave choice When she hears there is to be a hanging of subject matter takes some pirates in the reader on town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a journey young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that revoltsthey don't find and kill her too, angersand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and excites: ''Escape Attempt'joining the notorious Ned Low' s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is an experience that does not leave the reader untoucheda mutiny on board, and locks them from there we are caught up in a page-turner that cannot be escapedher rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8494365878</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Morrall1471180158|title=When the Floods CameMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=Sometime Jamie Matson works in the not-tooan upper-distant futureclass grocery store, for a man who's a devastating virus has decimated control freak with all the population subtlety of the UKa half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, striking humans and animals alike and leaving Britain in a state of quarantine for decades'has his problems'. Most of the survivors have been left infertile He's asthmatic and the majority of people have relocated to Brightonmore you read, where they rely the more you'll suspect that he's on airdops from surrounding nations in order to survive. Farming is impossible, as weather conditions are harsh and extreme, including tornadoes, floods and blizzardsthe autistic spectrum. Not everyone chooses Sometimes Jamie needs to live in Brighton though. In take time off at short notice - she's a block of flats frequent flier in Birmingham live the resourceful Polanski Family: Popi, Moth, Roza, Boris, Delphine local A&E and Luciasometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Moth and Popi prefer solitude and isolation and their make-do- Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and-mend philosophy has ensured their survival put in this unconventional environmentthe wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Paulson EllisB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Other Mrs WalkerRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=''A photographPetr is an orphan. Six orange pips sucked dry. A Brazil nut with Rescued by the Ten Commandments etched into the shell. An emerald dress dripping with sequins.'' This strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the legacy forests of Mrs WalkerWashington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, who died alone in and armed with only a freezing Edinburgh flatpirate radio transmitter, drinking her final glass of whisky. Nylons wrinkling at Petr goes on a journey through the kneeforest, white hair hair dyed red, scratches on her cheeksbroadcasting the strange, hollow bones wild and a liver like pasterarely heard voices he encounters. Who was Mrs Walker and why did she die alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mona AwadSarah Marsh|title= 13 Ways A Sign of Looking At A Fat GirlHer Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Liz is fatAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Not just plump or chubby or Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as my director often describes peoplesomething only savages do, ''bubbly''Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but full onphysically restrained from signing. From here, capital F fatshe ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. It's perhaps one of At the frustrations of this book that we never get a numbersame time, because she's clearly obsessed with what the scale showsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, but won't share that readingand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah BeeB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Last Thing I RememberGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=Contemporary writers are mining a rich seam of psychological thrillers and, within this genre, I seem to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonists''This story is not for everyone. Comatose protagonists? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? True, you do normally expect a protagonist to, well, do something. And Deborah Mee's heroine Sarah does nothing at all, other than listen, and try and remember, from her unconscious state. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories and snippets  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of conversations from around her bedsidefifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Yet with these meagre tools she helps the reader build up She was a vivid picture of what is happening around hervery bright student, of her own charactera bit too nerdy if truth be told, and of the events leading suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her hospital admissionin case it's contagious. As It's not easy being a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she black girl whose skin is today84% white. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in She had a loving marriage crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparent. Sarah's controlling husband has a sinister brother who comes to sit by her bedside, while never thought he would notice her toxic mother wages an ongoing war of words with Sarah's spineless father. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. At times I wanted She went to weep for what happened his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at give her for letting it happena lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Guskin1472263936|title= The Forgetting Time|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Janie is a single mother, living in New York with her pre-schooler Noah. It's just the two of them, so it's rather disconcerting when Noah screams out in the night, calling for his ''real mom'' and asking when he can go home. Night after night this happens. There's other things, too. He hates water and regularly goes to nursery stinky because his mother simply cannot get him in the bath. He has the odd bizarre turn of phrase that comes out, far beyond what one might expect for a child of his age. He knows certain things, too, without anyone understanding how he picked up this knowledge, whether it be the names of different reptiles or the plot of books he's never read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509806792</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFigurine|author=Caroline Lea|title=When The Sky Fell ApartVictoria Hislop

|summary=That It was the order in which things happened1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: the sky fell aparther mother, Jersey's beaches were bombedGreek by birth, Clement had left the islandfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's butcher went parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in flames where he stood and then up-market Kolonaki would be the arrival first of the German armyseveral annual visits. This will change She grew to love her grandmother and the life of the island including herbalist Edithfamily's maid, neglected child ClaudineDina, former fisherman Maurice but was wary - and English Doctor Carterfrightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Each He was proud of his close connections to the four lives on the perimeter of the islandJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's community but each will come to depend on the other three in order to continue livingScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240746</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HonigDean Koontz|title= The Senility of Vladimir PAfter Death|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= In the not-too-distant futureMichael Mace, Vladimir Putin is slowly succumbing to dementiaHead of Security, hidden from the world at large a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a secluded private nursing homebio-hazard accident. Nikolai Ilyich Sheremetev Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has what sounds like a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the most difficult job in the world: shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; hecan ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael's the old man's nurseanymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398066</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)B0BYF82CXT|title=Blood BrothersSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's Berlin'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and the Nazis are on their way to powerdisappointment, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city when Terry and Fiona – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious successful and very much in the way it can swallow people love – is home to a countless hoard of teenagers, but we focus move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on just a fewlife, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or the couples befriend each other before nowand life appears to improve for both pairs. They call themselves the Blood Brothers, even if But all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to anothernot what it seems, balancing the cost of a few cigarettes with that of a warm room and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for a few hours or some stale rolls to eattragedy. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, Willi. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsShalini Boland|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Silent Bride|rating=43

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction books, several of them of local interest to South Carolina natives Alice and visitorsSeth are a match made in heaven. This He is his first noveleverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, howeverclever, funny; total and you may be surprised to learn that it utter husband-material. She is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again all he could possibly want in Charlestona wife; in their early fortiesbeautiful, successful, they're facing turning points in their professional confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and personal livesset. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and resume excitement as she surveys the congregation – their communal marijuana smoking habitfriends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, they summon Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the courage altar is, who is waiting for her to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex livesbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)1787636003|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written in It was the Present Tense by Helle Helle summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in arrived on the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarisland. It Rachel wasn'texactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. That's not totally It was quite a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' istime she was obsessed by him. It just wasn't exactly what I was expectingAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BaronAmanda Craig|title=BlackheathThree Graces

|summary=Househusband James is happy in BlackheathFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. HeThere's started doing stand-up again something so that he too has utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an achievement image of the country as it stands in his life to balance wife Aliceone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's award winning poetry. Children Ida and Dominic are doing well so all is great. Elsewhere in practically synonymous with the area Amelia is equally happy with her actor husband Richard, her own career and children Niamh and teenage Michaelgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Sometimes happiness isn't enough though and, as She has such a gift for weaving the worlds ongoing issues of the two families start to mingleday into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, things start changing never making them ciphers for each of themsocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434902</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lim152915118X|title=AfterlightPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims ''Pineapple Street'' is the life story of your parents three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is really all it takes married to make your world fall aparttheir brother Cord. You might hope that They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get Stockton bybirth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. But before Sophie gets The problem's exacerbated when the chance to find outclan matriarch, Tilda, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like other girlsto move into the Pineapple Street property. She is beautiful Tilda and mesmerizing Chip have renovated and Eve needs Sophie downsized to be her go-to girlanother property, a street or so away, which they own. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she diedThey won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Eve is Nominally, they had a ghost choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and dealing with Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the dead who have gold digger'. She's living in ''their'unfinished business'family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to ' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifeGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiEmily Critchley|title=All The Stars In The HeavensOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was 1935 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and Loretta Young wanted fame and success in Hollywoodbring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Part However, Edie is tormented by the memory of it her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was being young (just twenty one) and beautiful but a secret she was also conscious keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the money she brought in mattered to her familything that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. She After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was hungry for love too: the last time she saw her father had left when , she was youngstarts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Her step-father had done little better and there was a ''need'' for a man And yet as she remembers the past, she could love is forgetting more and look up more in her day today life. She developed a reputation for falling in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but on Will she uncover the set of truth about Lucy''The Call of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - s disappearance before her move, and he for before her.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kaui Hart HemmingsMadelaine Lucas|title= The PossibilitiesThirst for Salt|rating= 3.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Sarah's son has just died in an avalanche and as such this is 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a book very much about bereavement light and grieving and what next. Itweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''s odd to think  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 basis 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 personal tragedy made this an intriguing readisolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but that was the casehow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099597780</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Hurst0008506337|title=The Postmistress of Nong KhaiGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Mike RawlinsThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O' rise through Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the ranks in event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the investigation department Isle of Customs Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and Excise has been steady, culminating in his dream postingwent on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: attachment to the British EmbassyRachel, ThailandImogen and Sasha. It gets even better when he realises a name from his past is also operating out of Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the country family home on the other side Isle of the lawWight. MikeEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's attempts mind: ''she would never be able to nail leave him over the years have become personal and now, thanks to local informant or in charge'Postmistress' Lek, prosecution is a possibility. What Mike doesn't realise is the cost the chase will exact… not yet anyway Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James MacManus1914585402|title= Midnight in BerlinDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Berlin – 1938. In the British Embassy, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and government, remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and assassinate Hitleraffecting it was. ElsewhereIt was a gripping, Sara Sternschein appears on stage in her role as the lead in the Gestapo's brothel – the Salon Kitty. She has no choiceemotionally wounding read, her twin brother is being held in a concentration camp. In the Gestapo Headquarters, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits and watches – with his eyes rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on Sara Sternschein as his secret weaponit. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for his mission he finds himself drawn to Salon Kitty – but does Sara hold the key to thwarting Hitler, or is Macrae being manipulated?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia MacgregorLucy Ashe|title=The Astonishing Return of Norah WellsClara and Olivia

|summary=FayThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, Adamwe learn, on the girls teenager Ella and little 6 year old Willa seem a happy familyinside. They are And not on the wholestage, iteither. Because there's just Ella who isn'ta lot that builds a dancer. FaySome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, named by the ladies across the road that ''je ne sais quoi'The Mother that Stayed' moved in after Norah, 'The Mother that Leftdon't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, went. Now shea 's taken Norah's place in the familyjoie de vivre's life and Adams' bed. Ella just wants her mother to come home The difference between a hard-worker, and then, 6 years after she went, Norah doesa star. How will she fit in and, just as importantly, why did she come back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751554200</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SeddonHeather Fawcett|title=Try Not To BreatheEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=In ''Try not Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to Breathewrite her life'' Holly Seddon offers an addition s work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the somewhat overflowing thriller shelves. Of coursesmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the reason this particular segment village matriarch, she is bursting at not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the seams is because thrillersright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, especially psychological onesall charm and delight, are just so compellingmuch to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And there have been some good - what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and hugely successful - books Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this category out there , in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of late (beforepriorities but -Isix months after the tsunami -go-to-sleep-IKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn'll-be-gone-with-t a-girl-on-a-train)dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>

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