Category: sisters
No One Will Find You Here by Natalie Morrow
Hannah and Owen Cole buy an old house on Hawthorn Lane, hoping the worst thing hiding beneath its floors is mold and someone else’s terrible taste. Then, during renovations, the remains of two children are discovered beneath the roots of a black walnut tree. The discovery leads police back to a family that vanished without a trace thirty-five years ago. At the time, everyone … Read More No One Will Find You Here by Natalie Morrow
+ family, family drama, fiction, gothic, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, grief, lies, mental illness, review, secrets, siblings, sisters
The Hollow Garden by Natalie Grace Lewis
Seventeen years ago, Kyra Masters fled the Hollow Garden and never looked back. Haunted by fragmented memories of her friend Eleanor’s death and the events that followed, she has spent years trying to build a life far from the estate that shattered her family and left her questioning her own mind. Following her aunt’s death, Kyra unexpectedly inherits the Hollow Garden. A sprawling Victorian … Read More The Hollow Garden by Natalie Grace Lewis
+ audio book, fiction, humour fiction, Ireland, review, sisters, twins
Shibby Magee by Carrie Kabak
A vanished mother. A fractured family. A lifetime of choosing the wrong men. When their bold, brassy mother vanishes into Ireland’s Traveller community, Shibby Magee and her twin sister, Dorah, are left behind in a family already cracking at the seams. Under the iron rule of their rigidly bigoted grandmother, the girls grow up on opposite tracks: Dorah, sharp-edged and defiant; Shibby, bruised and … Read More Shibby Magee by Carrie Kabak
Until the Next Letter by Hannah Claire
When sisters Libby and Rachel open a letter from their late mother, they discover that it’s the first of five. Each letter asks them to scatter their mother’s ashes in a different place, and travel together to the carefully chosen locations. What begins as an act of remembrance soon becomes a journey into the past. With every trip, the sisters uncover unsettling truths about … Read More Until the Next Letter by Hannah Claire
+ 1960s, family, feminism, fiction, literature, love, marriage, music, psychiatrist, relationships, review, sisters, therapy, twins
The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 6 by Sophia Lambton
Life can be alienating. Adaptation tampers with the twins in this penultimate instalment of The Crooked Little Pieces: an edition that seals both into unnatural habitats. Domesticity daunts Anneliese as she enjoys (endures?) a liberating love. Across an ocean unfamiliar faces shun the shrinking soul of Isabel. Belligerently climbing up the academic ladder, Susanna hangs up her psychiatrist spurs to be reached… never. Homelessness becomes … Read More The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 6 by Sophia Lambton
The House of Dust and Shadows by Tabitha Potts
We are but dust and shadows is the motto on the sundial in the garden at Blackthorn Manor. The past haunts the family living there. When Robert Landimor, a famous painter, dies suddenly, he leaves his estate, including Blackthorn Manor, to his housekeeper, Mary, disinheriting his three daughters, Lucia, Izzy, and Sara in the process. No one understands why. Sara attempts to find answers, … Read More The House of Dust and Shadows by Tabitha Potts
+ 1960s, 1970s, adoption, childhood, family, fiction, friends, grief, Iceland, Iceland noir, lies, review, Scandi noir, secrets, sisters
Home Before Dark by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir translated by Victoria Cribb
November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsí has a secret pen pal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister’s name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsí is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stína goes … Read More Home Before Dark by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir translated by Victoria Cribb
+ 1930s, 1940s, childhood, family, family drama, female friendship, fiction, germany, grief, Historical fiction, holocaust, jewish history, love, memoir, nazi germany, relationships, review, secrets, sisters, World War Two, WW2
The Nowhere Sisters by Jan Casey
Berlin, 1938. One journey will change their lives forever. Twelve-year-old Margarete has lost everything — her parents, her home, and the fragile safety of the orphanage she once knew. When the Nazis target Jewish families across Germany, Margarete is placed on a Kindertransport train bound for England. She expects to face the terrifying journey alone. Until a small, frightened girl is thrust into her … Read More The Nowhere Sisters by Jan Casey
+ 1990s, adoption, childhood, cult, family, fiction, forgiveness, loss, love, motherhood, obsession, review, secrets, siblings, sisters
The Nowhere Girls by Carmel Harrington
On a cold afternoon in December 1995, two young girls are found abandoned on a platform at Pearse Station in Dublin. Thirty years later, investigative journalist Vega is determined to find out what happened to the so-called ‘Nowhere Girls’. Where did their mother go? Why did no one come forward to claim them? And where are they now? Searching for answers takes her on … Read More The Nowhere Girls by Carmel Harrington
The Invisible Cage by Suni Samara
“You can’t see the bars or the lock, but they are there. I am a prisoner.” Meet Anoushka:Edinburgh biology student, dutiful Indian daughter, great marriage material. She’s everything to everybody and yet – she’s nothing. She is invisible in an invisible cage. This is the year that changes her life. At twenty-two, Anoushka, the eldest daughter in her family, is expected to take the … Read More The Invisible Cage by Suni Samara
+ 1950s, 1960s, family, feminism, fiction, Historical fiction, literature, London, love, marriage, mental health, mental illness, music, obsession, psychiatrist, relationships, review, sisters, therapy, twins
The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 5 by Sophia Lambton
Love thrives in hiding. Crowded by encroaching dangers, Anneliese confronts a range of hurdles in The Crooked Little Volume 5: a dive into unstopping problems. As Isabel disdains a figure from her past, the dastardly Charles Anthony keeps making his psychiatrist miserable – to nobody’s avail. Susanna stumbles amidst frayed attempts to get her youth back; toying with an unfazed Christopher. Dazed Isabel once more fears … Read More The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 5 by Sophia Lambton
+ abuse, crime fiction, fiction, Iceland, Iceland noir, murder, murder mystery, review, Scandi noir, secrets, sisters
Black As Death (An Áróra Investigation Book #5) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir translated by Lorenza Garcia
The haunting final chapter to an award-winning series… And a final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when Ísafold’s boyfriend – the prime suspect in her disappearance – is found dead at the same site where Ísafold’s body was discovered, Áróra’s grip … Read More Black As Death (An Áróra Investigation Book #5) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir translated by Lorenza Garcia
