Sophie spent many happy summers as a child at Rockaway Beach. Visiting her beloved grandmother and taking in all the ambiance of a summer seaside resort. Then, suddenly one summer, the holidays stopped and all Sophie knew was that her mother and her grandmother had really fallen out. A couple […]
I’m really lucky in that I often get sent books to review several months before their publication date. I’m usually pretty good and add them to my reading schedule and plan to read them just before the launch date. When The Family Upstairs arrived on my kindle three months early […]
UK readers may be familiar with Cathy Newman from her role as journalist and presenter on Channel Four’s nightly news programme. She has a very direct but completely amicable style that often disarms the people that she interviews. This easygoing style translates into her written prose and what could be […]
Obsession is the debut novel from Amanda Robson. It is a story of two couples. Rob is a GP married to Carly. On a drunken night on a camping holiday in France he is pressed by Carly to tell her who he would be unfaithful with if he could. Such […]
Many readers will know of Emma’s earlier book “Room” – from the movie adaptation if not from the book itself. Donoghue writes about interesting people, characters who have led or are leading a significant life. It is with this in mind that we first meet Elizabeth Wright. A young widow, […]
UK Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016. 416 pages. Different Class is a follow up story to Gentlemen and Players. Set in a private boys grammar school in Yorkshire called St Oswald’s this is a complex tale of tradition and conflict, of bullying and the struggle to fit in. Unlike Chocolat […]
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