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|author=Jonathan Evison
|title=This is Your Life, Hariet Chance!
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The cruise to Alaska came as something of a surprise to Harriet Chance. It had been booked by her husband, Bernard, before his death and almost on a whim Harriet decided that she ''would'' go and take her best friend Mildred along with her. She might be seventy eight, but when she thought about it there didn't seem to be any reason not to go and it might give them both a new lease of life. She and Bernard had been married for fifty-five years, but the cruise would not work out as she hoped and for some of the strangest of reasons.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592673</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marisa Reichardt
|summary= A small girl wakes up one morning, yawns in the morning sun and then bounces through the day finding joy in everyday situations and encouraging those around her to enjoy them too. Even on gloomy grey days she has the happy knack of finding something to smile about. This is most definitely a ''glass half full'' little person. By the end of book the reader probably will be too!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723299862</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edith Morley
|title=Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Edith Morley was born in Bayswater in 1875 and wasn't overly keen on being a girl, although she found the late Victorian conventions restrictive rather than repressive. Her descriptions of the life which young women (or even women of any age) were expected to lead is exceptional in the way that it shows the tedium and the limitations. She had one great good fortune in that her father (a surgeon-dentist) and well-read mother believed in the benefits of a good education for boys ''and'' girls. After spending two years in Germany as part of her education she went on to get an 'equivalent' degree from Oxford University (which is all that was available to women at the time) and then to become the first female professor in England in 1908, at Reading University.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909747165</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Tchaikovsky
|title=The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Maniye is a girl torn between her mother's tribe, the tiger people and her father's wolves. She has always known her father and wolf chieftain killed her mother as soon as Maniye was born but she has only just discovered his purpose for Maniye's life. There is only one alternative for her: to run away, taking Hesprec the snake and proposed wolf blood sacrifice. Although what she hasn't reckoned on is just how much she has to learn, her father's determination and the dogged perseverance of Broken Axe, lone wolf and hired killer. She also seems to be running towards a world on the verge of a horrific war as Maniye places herself between a rock and a very hard place indeed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770061</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>0230770061</amazonus>
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