This is How we are Human by Louise Beech
A mother wants the best for her autistic son. When it comes to the world of relationships, she's in a bind over how she can best help him...
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Jun 20, 20213 min read
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Like everyone in her life, I was drawn to Evelyn Hugo's. I was desperate to be the fly on the wall as her life unfolded before me.
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katie87879
Jun 12, 20212 min read
The Secrets of Us by Lucinda Berry
Another sublime book from Lucinda Berry - It's like an Agatha Christie novel exploring the human psyche!
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Apr 10, 20213 min read
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
This is a chest-constricting, eerie read. It lifted me out of the furious Indian summer into icy mountains, sending quite a chill over me!
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Apr 4, 20212 min read
2020: A week into lockdown
A week into our first lockdown, back in March, 2020, I was feeling a little more familiar with the routine of being entirely inside 24/7...
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Apr 3, 20213 min read
The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley
The third book of the 'Seven Sisters' series. Set in London and Edwardian England, we follow star as she makes sense of her quirky family.
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Mar 14, 20213 min read
The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley
This is the wonderful second book in the 7-book series, 'The Seven Sisters', based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation.
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Mar 13, 20212 min read
A year ago
A year on, it seemed like the right moment to share some of my thoughts and writings from the start of the pandemic.
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Feb 21, 20213 min read
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Scary, filled with tension, anxiety, concern, even intrigue but then somehow also romance. Cliché, but this book is hard to put down.
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Feb 20, 20212 min read
Uncoupling by Lorraine Brown
Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track - that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding.
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Feb 13, 20212 min read
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
This is a dark story of coercion and grooming of a child. It's so well written that as the reader, I also felt groomed.
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Feb 6, 20212 min read
The Push by Ashley Audrain
In the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter...
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katie87879
Jan 23, 20213 min read
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Balram is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. The craziest things seem reasonable, the way he narrates them...
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katie87879
Jan 16, 20213 min read
The Woman Who Wasn't There by Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo J. Guglielmo, JR.
This is a harrowing true story of deception centered around survivors of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers.
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katie87879
Jan 10, 20213 min read
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
From present day England to 13th Century, Anatolia; centuries apart we see a journey of love and life come together.
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Dec 30, 20203 min read
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters is the first in a series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation.
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katie87879
Dec 5, 20203 min read
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.
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katie87879
Nov 21, 20203 min read
The Split by Sharon Bolton
A tense and thrilling plot with twists and turns to match the calving glaciers and rotating ice-bergs of the South Georgia island setting!
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Nov 7, 20203 min read
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Exploring the opportunity to go back and re-live your life multiple times, making different choices. Sounds appealing doesn't it?
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katie87879
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Tall but Tiny Tales featured by The School Library Project!
Tiny Tales Thursday, hosted by The School Library Project, features a video narration of one of the tiny tales each week!
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