Madame Burova is closing up her booth on the Brighton seafront and retiring after over 50 years as a Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant. She is the keeper of secrets. Anything that she has been told in confidence during a reader remains with her alone. It is like the sanctity […]
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I’m clearly missing my Mediterranean holidays as this is the second book I’ve read in recent weeks set on the beautiful Greek island of Corfu. You can almost feel the sunscreen on your skin and the sand between your toes as Broom paints a picture of an idyllic island village […]
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I’ve always been attracted to the idea of the large extended Italian family. That idealised Dolmio advert group of people sitting down around a huge table to noisily eat pasta and share their lives. Maggie finds herself joining that dynamic when she marries widower Nico. Life on the council estate […]
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UK Publishing Date: 11 Feb 2016 336 pages Beautiful Broken Things will resonate with any woman who had a best friend to share their secrets with during their teenage years. Marketed as a YA book this debut by Sara Bernard explores the relationship and friendships between three sixteen year old […]
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UK Publishing Date: 5 Nov 2015. 352 Pages Smoke and Mirrors is a quintessentially British novel set in post World War 2 Britain. This is the second of the DI Stephens & Mephisto stories but can easily be read as a standalone novel (I did!) It is nearly Christmas and […]
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