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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona DavisB0DGDJRHYD|title= The Doll HouseNowhere Man|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York CityIn a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. A meticulous man, he makes sure of every preparation, down to the last detail. Some last reflections, and then he says goodbye to his wife, the world, 2016: Rose has quit and his life. It's horribly sad. At work in her shop, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her job as ageing and ailing mother, who needs extricating from yet another accident. It will be a newscaster and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – and now works for an on-line outfit with the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmergewhile before Diana realises what Patrick has done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gayle Forman1739526910|title=Leave MeWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5

|summary= When you've had 'One year after a heart attack and frightened the hell out of not just yourselfsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, but your husband, your children – if they had known - your mother and your best friend, you imagine that some long overdue TLC is about he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to come your wayrecover. You're thinking cards, flowers, being waited on handLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, foot and finger and even though the imminent influx he dreams of culinary gifts are likely to be low fatreconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, low sugar and taste like the box they came he becomes swept up in, they're coming, right? And you'll probably get a couple local world of months off work unlikely friendships, mobile discos and not even have to think about the laundrysurprising romantic possibilities. Or the housework? Or taking the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerJenny Lecoat|title=Ink and BoneBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like Jean lives on Jersey with her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychicmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Sensitive to During the unseenwar, unheard Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and unknowablesoldiers took him away one night, she spends leaving Jean and her days among the deadmother waiting for years for news of him. Visited, botheredAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, harassed and sometimes tauntedthe war is finally over, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts their hopes rise that Mother Nature has sought to bestowthey will finally learn what became of him. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the room informer who are all trying to get your attention in told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the loudest and most distracting way possible.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Annelies Verbeke Onyi Nwabineli|title= Thirty DaysAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem Anuri spent her childhood on display to know what it is about. The novel follows Alphonsethe world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region where she posted every step of Belgium with his girlfriend Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and childhood friend Cat, who basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is recovering from cancer. Verbeke puts a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile slowly trying to regain her confidence and unsteady relationshipto get her life back, as they try suing her step-mother to navigate a new lifestyle in a small town, away from take down the citycontent about her. However Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, there are several other storylines which vie undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapistdoing so. Most importantly, his experiences of racism as a black man in a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parentsshe is desperately worried about her little sister, the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with war graves and has a knack for appearing her father at precisely the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches a few miles away. same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Oldest GameList of Suspicious Things|author=Sue LegerJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Moving It's 1979 and eye-opening story of Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and forced she'll do anything to work as a prostituteprevent that. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought here She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Connolly1035906708|title= Men Like AirDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the destinies of four very different men are about New York, in December 1923 and only moved to collideAthens when she was thirteen. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dilly, determined Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him make it more manageable in the UK States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the aftermath of their parents' deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted Nazi occupation by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life and that of his brother in law and oldest friend William, a mother who is content in both his faith mercilessly exploited her and his marriage. When Finn wanders in to Leo's gallery, a series made no secret of unexpected and interconnected events unfoldher preference for her elder sister, changing the lives of all four men togetherJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How I Became a DrifterAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Christmas PhilipThe Perfect Passion Company|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy4.5

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told The 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 business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a stream-of-consciousness stylewhile. An unconventional voice speaking Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the universal search for chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love , thanks to 44 Scotland Street and acceptancethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|rating=3.5 |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk> 1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane CorryDean Koontz|title= My Husband's WifeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Autumn 2000Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Newly married lawyer Lily Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and her artist husband Ed have it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a small apartment in Londonnice person. A really nice person. Fresh from So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the honeymoon, they're still settling in delivery to their his house is a new rolesfriend, a bad weather friend called Spike, and their neighbour Francesca and her 9 year old daughter Carla 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 the pressure off care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a little bitwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Ho DaviesKatherine Howe|title= The FortunesA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and notions being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of foreignness, especially some pirates in the context of migrationtown, she decides to go and watch. As such Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen Hannah finds herself embroiled in a more current and thought-provoking theme for young boy''The Fortunes'': through four different stories, s death at the novel documents some hands of the history of Chinese people in America over more than centurytwo vicious pirates. From railroad workers She hides away, laundry ownersso that they don't find and kill her too, and prostitutes then to escape them completely she runs away to film stars sea, dressing as a boy and adoptive parents, joining the notorious Ned Low''The Fortunes'' tells tales s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of searching for identity things when there is a mutiny on both national board, and personal levelsfrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Read1471180158|title= The Art TeacherMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a pupil in control freak with all the facesubtlety of a half brick. A mediocre teacher Jamie's son, stuck in a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night to an empty flatBo, and an existence filled with reminders of 'has his life as a faded rock starproblems'. When one pupil over steps He's asthmatic and the markmore you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world of danger, violence, frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the glare of need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the mediawrong. It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Catching up with old friends Petr is a pleasurean orphan. Rescued by the strange, and it's good to be back on Scotland Streetreclusive Bear, finding out what everyone he is getting brought up to. Irene is backfar from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of course, from her travels to the middle-eastWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Bruce has fallen After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in lovehuman company, Matthew and Elspeth have triplet troublesarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>rarely heard voices he encounters.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowan Hisayo BuchananSarah Marsh|title= Harmless Like YouA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5

|summary= This is the debut novel from Rowan Hisayo BuchananAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, but you would never know itEllen Lark loses her hearing. It is an accomplished, unusualSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, poetically written story everything about her life changes. Living in a young Japanese girltime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Yuki OyamaEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, who has lived most of her life in New Yorkbut physically restrained from signing. As suchFrom here, she feels an outsider: ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the American girls at school ignore her deaf and she finds the rituals of her parents' home suffocatingusing a system called Visible Speech. Her father has hopes of her studying medicineAt the same time, but the only thing Yuki enjoys Bell is artworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638321</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Claire SweeneyB0BC3YTCMR|title=Owl Song at DawnGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=Maeve Maloney runs the Sea View Lodge guest house that her parents ran before ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of herfifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. The house has harboured many memories for Maeve over the past 80She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -years-plus, most of which shepeople were afraid to hug her in case it's managed to keep at baycontagious. However, her suppression It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is endangered when Vincent comes to call84% white. Far from being an ordinary guest, Vincent is She had a link to that past Maeve crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she'd outrun but now has to relivewould tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Add that She went to trying to teach Steph his house and Len he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to fib effectively and life becomes very difficult indeedgive her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079670</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1472263936|title=The Kept WomanFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Special Agent Will Trent is backIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Collected She was alone: her mother, Greek by his partnerbirth, Faithhad left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to attend the scene of a rather brutal murder, Trent queries why the GBI has been called family apartment in to what up-market Kolonaki would usually be a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PDthe first of several annual visits. Arriving at She grew to love her grandmother and the scenefamily's maid, their bossDina, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing but was wary - and barking orders; the victim is none other than exfrightened -cop and all round bad eggof her grandfather, Dale Hardingretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. There is a lot He was proud of blood, presumably due his close connections to the doorJunta 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 -knob and spindle sticking out of Hardinginherited from her father's neckScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyDean Koontz|title=To 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 Bright Edge shrouded bodies of the Worldhis 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=If youThe village is isolated and poor. It're going to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what you've never seen befores surrounded by a Witching Forest. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back in And the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is a little too naïve to heed itvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. A career soldier, he is tasked with scouring the potential The black wood of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaskaforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even though the Russians (who gallows, if needed. The fear of course used to own being buried alive is an existential superstition in the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, village and even though a major stretch of that is the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen overreason Volushka, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrable. Allen leaves a much youngerdrunken, new bride behind – and right from the getself-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happeningsindulgent, strange encounters and things lazy lout of legend coming to lifea man is tolerated. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gerald WeaverB0BYF82CXT|title=The First First GentlemanSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 3.54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Anyone picking up ''The First First Gentleman'' might be forgiven for snorting with laughter Bill and making Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a sarcastic comment about how timely depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and potentially satirical life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it sounds. In a way they’d be right – but probably seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for different reasonstragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993291759</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liam BrownShalini Boland|title=Wild LifeThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=Adam Britman goes from Alice and Seth are a man with it all to homeless match made in the sniff of a lineheaven. While looking He is everything she has been searching for somewhere to sleep Adam comes across an alternative community ; 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 local parkinevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. They've come together When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and created structure (including an unofficial allotment) out of excitement as she surveys the disorder thatcongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's normally equated with living on world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the streets. It seems perfect so Adam joins themaltar is, but perfection can sometimes be an illusion. As who is waiting for walking away… that's not going her to be easybecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079700</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sabine Durrant1787636003|title= Lie with MeThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= Paul is lots of things. A writer. A famous name (or at least he It was a few years ago)the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. A bit of a snob. A cheapskate. A ladies Rachel wasn' man. And a liar. Oh boyt exactly innocent but she was, is he a liar. He fibsperhaps, he exaggeratesnaive, he omitsso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, he tells porkiesshe was flattered rather than wary. Not about the really big stuff, nothing that will hurt anyone, just It was quite a few mistruths while before he made any sort of physical approach to see her and by that time she was obsessed by him through. It's Alistair worked for keeping up appearancesHenry Taylor, reallylooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy JonesAmanda Craig|title=The Trouble with Henry and ZoeThree Graces|rating=34.5

|summary= Stop for a moment and look down at your belly, in Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the centre you should have -nation novel. There's something that looks a little bit like a button. It may be an innieso utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, or crafting an outie, but just consider image of the country as it for a few momentsstands in one particular moment. Do you feel better? Nope, you shouldn't do as all To say that navel-gazing does Amanda Craig is make you over think thingsskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. However, without She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the concept lives of her characters in a million romantic books would way that feels natural and lived-in, never be written as without the human compulsion to destroy things around making themciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, how can any tension arise?grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carol Shields152915118X|title= The Republic of LovePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Republic of Love ''Pineapple Street'' is a mesh-like novel, peopled with a huge cast the story of characters interwoven in familialthree women: Sasha, friendly, neighbourly Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and romantic relationshipsSasha is married to their brother Cord. Winnipeg They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the city in which virtually all the action in Shieldtribe. The problem's novel takes placeexacerbated when the clan matriarch, ties them together. The story follows two singleTilda, thirty-something characters, Fay asks Cord and Tom, who live opposite each other Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a complicated array of mutual acquaintances but donstreet or so away, which they own. They won't know each otherneed any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Shields alternates between their two points of view as Nominally, they are slowly drawn together. This is had a domestic novel in choice but that wasn't the best sense; there is a focus on reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the beauty and mundanity of ordinary peoplegold digger'. She's unremarkable lives living in an unexceptional city, from Fay's satisfaction in 'their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the pop sound and toasted crumb smell of her twin slice toaster, to TomGD's ungainly Saturday morning jogs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Penny ParkesEmily Critchley|title= Out of PracticeOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=In 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a last-ditch attempt move as her son wants to move to save her failing marriage, GP Holly Graham relocates another house and bring Edie to the charming village of Larkford live with her his family , as Edie is starting to work at lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the local practice. She finds life as a village doctor very different to memory of her previous role in a busy city hospitalchildhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and falls 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. After 'seeing' Lucy in love with the close-knit community and its quirky residents. But high street, just as Larkford is beginning she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to feel like homeher. And yet as she remembers the past, Holly she is hit by a bombshell that threatens forgetting more and more in her day to destroy everything she has worked so hard to achieveday life. Can Will she rise to uncover the challenge truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and fight for what she lovesbefore her memories are gone forever? Maybe she will discover something about herself in the process.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471153045</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven RowleyMadelaine Lucas|title=Lily and the OctopusThirst for Salt|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Ted Flask. A middle-aged''Love, gay Los AngelinoI'd read, he has the one love of his life. While the fall-out of relationships with men sends him was supposed to therapybe a light and weightless feeling, he can rely on Lilybut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the Dachshundyear-long relationship that once defined her. They've been together through thick and thinOverlaid with later wisdom, ever since the little pup narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the runt, no less summer after finishing university – seemed to pick Ted outits sorrowful end the summer after. TedSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt's sister's unusual marriage was almost marred by Lily being under details the surgeon24-year-old narrator's knifedeepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, at great expense – but how it changed her perspective on the whole they have life sorted. He tries to write, but Friday night is board games, Saturday night is movie night, both romantic and Sunday night is pizza night. Oh, and yes, Lily talks to Ted, either in ''FULLY! CAPITALISED! EVER! EXCLAMATORY! BARKS!'' or in regular speech. Oh, familial relationships and yes, Lily has an octopus on how it altered her headirrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471154343</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen0008506337|title=FallingThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Here is the story of three womenThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, from three generations within the same familyapparently on both sides. There is Jo, a forty year old single mother whose first husband died, and whose second husband ran off with their nannyMargo was just sixteen when they fell in love. She is left caring for her Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older teenage daughter, Lydia, and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyoneman'. Her daughter Lydia is the second female character, and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over her fatherparents worried that Richard's death, anger with influence would take her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret that away from what they felt she is unable could achieve - going to talk to anyone aboutOxford and having a glittering career. Finally there's Honor who is Jo's mother in lawIn the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the mother Isle of Jo's first husband, StephenWight. Honor has a fall, breaks her hip, Margo did go to Oxford and is forced went on to move in with Jo for become a time as she has no one else who can help herwell-respected journalist. She too is hiding a secret from the worldThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and as you read holidays were spent at Sandcove, the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who family home on the others are, and if any Isle of them will ever start telling Wight. Even then the truthdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenn Ashworth1914585402|title=FellDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Now her parents have died, Annette returns to sell her old childhood home but thereI reviewed David F Ross's work to do on the decrepit building first. As she wanders around and tries to make some order of the overgrown shambles, shebook [[There's watched Only One Danny Garvey by the ghost of her mother, Netty; a spirit with regrets. Netty reminisces about AnnetteDavid F Ross|There's childhood Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and the turning point their lives reached when the mysterious healer Timothy Richardson came to stayaffecting it was. It was a time gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that promised so much but one for which Netty now needs to make amends, even if she is beyond the graveI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473630606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jill CimentLucy Ashe|title= Act of GodClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there'Act of Gods a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that '' is je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a story about two ageing twins who find ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a worrying mushroom growing in their cupboardhard-worker, a landlady searching for the spotlight and a Russian immigrant whose greatest fear is insignificancestar. What the insurance company describes as an act of God brings their already overlapped, Brooklyn lives in to sharper focus. What do you do when disaster threatens? Is it survival of the fittest or should we love thy neighbour? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272119</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fredrik BackmanHeather Fawcett|title=Britt-Marie Was HereEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54

|summary= Brett-Marie Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has never met a kitchen she doesn't want to clean. In facttravelled extensively, permanently armed with bicarbonate of soda and window cleanerresearched meticulously, sheto write her life's always ready to clean anythingwork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Her husband Kent Whilst she is an entrepreneur, you knowbrilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with excellent taste and expensive clothespeople. Yet here So when she isfinds herself far, far North in Borgthe small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, a rundown small townshe is not sure what she has done, in search of nor how to redeem herself and put her first job final investigations for 40 yearsher book back on the right track. Life takes some odd turns sometimes Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473617200</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Rodrigo Hasbun Seishu Hase and Sophie Hughes Alison Watts (translator)|title=Affections

|summary=If you thought your teenaged years were a struggle to work out First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the worldocean floor, which created the tsunami and yourself, consider that of Heidi Ertl. Or either of her sisters – this book serves as a sort of tribute to these three real-life women, and the lives that came out of their very disjointed youthin turn, forced to be rarefied from caused the norm by their family uprootingnuclear meltdown. Father Hans The result was one of Leni Riefenstahl's key cameramencomplete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and a Nazi military photographer, before taking the whole family into post-war exile in Bolivialoss of livelihoods was widespread. Their mother would have followed him to the ends of the earth – as in part would The fact that many pets were separated from their daughters, owners came far down the older two list of which start priorities but - six months after the book by joining him on an expedition to discover tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a lost Incan cityconvenience store. Heidi finds young, instant love on He wasn't a dog person but the trek – but sees convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dark side dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of such emotionsa seemingly ordinary woman's life, toocarried out by her nephew after she has died. Older sister Monika, The aunt who might well be manic depressive, finds something else, while the baby always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the family stays at home with indulgence to a young nephew had had a maudlin mother. So much here could be the hook on which more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to hang a full novel, but if anything find it's the reaction of them all to this unusual formative journey that inspires this bookout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272135</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jemma WayneJennifer Mason|title= Chains Partitions of SandUnity|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Chains of Sand is a great read about familyHere at Bookbag Towers, faith, survivalwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and love. It follows the story of two young menunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: Udi a veteran of the Israeli army who longs for a new future in LondonAn Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and Daniel, unravelled a London banker unsatisfied with his life and yearning for something moreseries of disappearances. The story focuses on their desires to change their lives by moving to different worlds and how this impacts their relationships with friends and family. As the story unfolds, the two protagonistsIn '' histories are slowly uncovered and they both have to overcome the difficulties in their new lives in order to achieve their dreams. Meanwhile, the fate Partitions of star-crossed love between a Jewish girl and an Arabic man in Jerusalem a decade earlier intertwines with DanielUnity''s life, complicating all that he thinks has become clearshe sets her mind to solving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079727</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF