Amazon: We all have something to tell those we have lost . . . When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how… Read more “#bookreview The phonebox at the edge of the world by Laura Imai Messina published by Bonnier Zaffre”
Month: April 2020
#bookreview The Farm by Joanne Ramos published by Bloomsbury
Amazon: Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks – a luxury retreat transforming the… Read more “#bookreview The Farm by Joanne Ramos published by Bloomsbury”
#bookreview Lanny by Max Porter published by Faber & Faber
Amazon: Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds… Read more “#bookreview Lanny by Max Porter published by Faber & Faber”
#bookreview The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde published by Simon and Schuster UK
Amazon: In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in only a sailboat. She is haunted by the loss of… Read more “#bookreview The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde published by Simon and Schuster UK”
#bookreview Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin published by Hodder & Stoughton
Amazon: After the death of his mother, young Alwin of Whittaker leaves the only home he has ever known to seek answers about his unknown father through… Read more “#bookreview Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin published by Hodder & Stoughton”
#bookreview The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver published by Penguin Books
Amazon: Two love stories. One Impossible Choice. Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’ve been together for almost a decade, and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible.… Read more “#bookreview The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver published by Penguin Books”
#bookreview Gravity is The Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty published by Atlantic Books
Amazon: Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving… Read more “#bookreview Gravity is The Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty published by Atlantic Books”
#bookreview One day in December by Josie Silver published by Penguin
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Amazon blurb: Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. After all, life isn’t a scene from… Read more “#bookreview One day in December by Josie Silver published by Penguin”
#bookreview The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside by Jessica Ryn published by HarperCollins HQ stories
Amazon blurb: Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her past for twenty-two years and two months, precisely. So when she is offered a bed in St… Read more “#bookreview The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside by Jessica Ryn published by HarperCollins HQ stories”
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