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The Art Of Hiding
The Art of Hiding is a stand alone novel and is a beautifully written, very emotional story of loss, family coming together and seeing...


Things We Never Said
The book opens with the prologue at the aftermath of Catherine's funeral. It is a little bit sad but it is a good opportunity for the...


The Stars Are Fire
The Stars Are Fire is a tragic fictional story based on real events in Maine, east coast of America, in 1947. This is a sophisticated...


The Man I Thought You Were
Oh, what an emotional roller-coaster. Anna and Mark have the perfect marriage filled with love, thoughtfulness and care for each other....


Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
What an incredible debut and so brilliantly written. Eleanor Oliphant is so obviously not 'fine'. She's had an unfortunate and horrible...


Black Rock
This is a beautiful story, told in the first person, of a teenage girl growing up in Black Rock,Tobago and, after a dreadful event in her...


Tin Man
This one made a deep emotional impact on me – it's the only book I can honestly say made me teary eyed – twice! On reading the first few...


The Girlfriend
Being a 450+ page book, I thought this would last me a few days reading on holiday – well, it managed to last just two days because it is...


Deceit In May
This is a fluid and easy to read suspense story set mostly in the south of England. Keira is clearing and selling the family home she...


Should You Ask Me
'I've come about the bodies. I know who they are.'
Just before D-Day in 1944, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, an elderly woma


The One
This book seems to be a re-naming of A Thousand Small Explosions by the same author, so if you've read that one, this is not a new book....


The Watcher
Having finished the book, I can see that some readers won't stick with this one, you really do need to go with the flow until it all fits...


Age Of Consent
Wow, this is one hell of an impacting story and despite the title and suggestive book cover, there is no gratuitous sex or anything to...


All We Shall Know
This is the first book I've read by Donal Ryan but it won't be the last. He has an economic way of writing which I like but that doesn't...
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