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The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster
Inspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace is an unforgettable historical novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster. They said I would swing for the crime and I did. I wear the rope-bruise like a necklace. 1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged … Read More The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster
Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard
If these walls could talk, they’d scream… When Ellie moves into 1 Delaney Row, all she has to her name is the house, a small suitcase and the terrible secrets she’s desperate to keep. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets – and the people determined to keep them are watching her. #BuyerBeware X/Twitter @cathryanhoward #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours … Read More Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Kill Switch by Robert Peston
Journalist Gil Peck is back; in therapy, married to Jess – now editor of the Financial Chronicle – and still driven by the need to prove a point that he can’t quite identify. Yet all is not well at home. Jess is fed up with Gil’s obsession with his job, and she’s kicked him out of their home. But Gil has never let anything … Read More The Kill Switch by Robert Peston
+ 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
Rosie And The Old House by Elizabeth Wilson
When Rosie and her family move into a crooked old cottage at the edge of a village, the house seems to greet them with creaks, sighs, and stories of its own. As the seasons pass, Rosie watches as the cottage is cared for, with its floors warmed and its roof given a new hat. With the help of neighbours, builders, and a mischievous beagle, … Read More Rosie And The Old House by Elizabeth Wilson
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
Winterbourne by Elisabeth Wolf
Within the walls of Winterbourne dwells a secret room, with an unspeakable collection of books. Librarian Anne Adams has found the perfect a job cataloguing the library of Winterbourne, an architectural masterpiece on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Surrounded by an awe-inspiring landscape, the library is magnificent, with priceless first editions, a librarian’s dream. However, Anne’s early weeks in her … Read More Winterbourne by Elisabeth Wolf
Bad Influence by Will Carver
Alyssa wants to be seen. Less wants to be someone. She takes two buses to class, posts pictures of her lunch, and pretends it’s all effortless. He hides his privilege beneath thrifted clothes and a sketchbook full of impossible designs. Together, they are inseparable, two outsiders constructing a version of themselves the world might finally applaud. Then Alyssa stumbles upon the hidden world of … Read More Bad Influence by Will Carver
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