Tag: family
+ alcoholism, domestic noir, family, fiction, grief, Historical fiction, history, loss, love, marriage, motherhood, photography, relationships, review, war, World War Two, WW2
Hungry Ghosts by C J Barker
The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, … Read More Hungry Ghosts by C J Barker
+ family, fiction, lies, love, motherhood, relationships, review, secrets, thriller
The New Son by Iain Maitland
Nina always wanted a child of her own. Now she has one. Nina feels trapped. Her partner Gary is controlling, his daughter hates her, and she’s recently suffered a miscarriage. Just as her life seems hopeless, Alex, the son she gave up for adoption nearly 20 years ago, shows up at her door. Somehow, he has tracked her down. #TheNewSon X(Twitter) #IainMaitland @inkubatorbooks @ZooloosBT #ZooloosBookTours #blogtourInstagram @inkubatorbooks @zooloosbooktours #bookstagram Their reunion is … Read More The New Son by Iain Maitland
+ family, female friendship, fiction, Ghost story, gothic, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, grief, haunting, lies, loss, love, marriage, motherhood, psychic, review, secrets, supernatural
The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken. Edward’s sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black feathers – claiming that they mark … Read More The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Alycat And The Sunday Scaries by Alysson Foti Bourque
It’s Sunday, the day before the school week begins, and Alycat is nervous. She just knows that Monday is going to be the Mondayest Monday ever! On the playground, Alycat realizes she isn’t the only one suffering from the Sunday Scaries. It’s hard to ride a bike. What if Kit falls? The treehouse is so high. Will Spotty make it safely back down? The … Read More Alycat And The Sunday Scaries by Alysson Foti Bourque
+ Australia, childhood, crime fiction, family, fiction, forgiveness, friendship, grief, journalist, lies, loss, love, murder, obsession, police corruption, Psychological fiction, review, secrets, sisters, thriller
To The River by Vikki Wakefield
How long can you hide the truth? The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year- old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. #ToTheRiver @VikkiWakefield @noexitpress #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann has long suspected … Read More To The River by Vikki Wakefield
+ family, fiction, grief, kidnapping, legal drama, lies, loss, love, motherhood, murder, mystery, obsession, review, secrets, thriller
Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood
A brilliantly compelling domestic suspense from a rising star of the crime fiction world, and the man behind BBC/Netflix smash hit, You Don’t Know Me Sophie King is missing. Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they’ve done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she’s gone. #FindingSophie @imranmahmood777 @BloomsburyRaven @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders #blogtour The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are … Read More Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood
Memory Road by Sarah Edghill
Lily is taking her elderly mother on a road trip around the UK, revisiting places which meant a lot to her. It’s challenging because Moira can no longer be described as ‘a bit forgetful’; she has started singing Abba songs in public and talking to imaginary friends, and last week she tried to rip off her clothes in Poundland. Genre: Romance | Contemporary | HumourPublisher: Bloodhound … Read More Memory Road by Sarah Edghill
+ family, fantasy, fiction, friendship, grief, love, mystery, review, romance, secrets, superstition, time travel
A Shape On The Air by Julia Ibbotson
A haunting Anglo-Saxon time-slip of mystery and romance Can echoes of the past threaten the present? They are 1500 years apart, but can they reach out to each other across the centuries? One woman faces a traumatic truth in the present day. The other is forced to marry the man she hates as the ‘Dark Ages’ unfold. #AShapeOnTheAir X(Twitter) @JuliaIbbotson @ZooloosBT #ZooloosBookTours #blogtourInstagram @julia.ibbotson @zooloosbooktours #bookstagram How can Dr Viv DuLac, … Read More A Shape On The Air by Julia Ibbotson
+ brothers, childhood, crime fiction, family, fiction, forgiveness, grief, lies, loss, love, marriage, murder, relationships, revenge, review, secrets, thriller
Broken Shadows by Sorrel Pitts
‘Looking back, Dad just didn’t act like a man who had killed his son. Every time I come back to it, I remember his face that day we came home and Mum had asked where Callum was, and there was nothing there but true concern, you know, at that moment…’ In 1994, eleven-year-old Callum was abducted from his Wiltshire village. His body was found … Read More Broken Shadows by Sorrel Pitts
+ bullying, child abduction, crime fiction, Detective novel, Dogs, family, fiction, friendship, lycanthropy, murder, mythology, obsession, psychiatric hospital, review, serial killer, sisters, superstition, thriller, werewolf
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. Exceptionally bright, she has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up roadkill, and in the dead of night Ava likes nothing better than to pull her latest discovery into her roadside den so she can study it. #DeadlyAnimals #MarieTierney @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders #blogtour But one day when she … Read More Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney
Mr Magenta by Christopher Bowden
Stephen Marling thought he knew his aunt Flora. But when he inherits her house in a quiet south London square a series of discoveries among her papers brings to light another person entirely. Who, for example, is ‘Mr Magenta’ and what part did he play in her life? In the process of uncovering the secrets of one life, Stephen is forced to re-evaluate his own … Read More Mr Magenta by Christopher Bowden
+ family, female friendship, fiction, friendship, grief, love, music, review, secrets
Mongrel by Hanako Footman
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage, but her growing desire for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Far from home and in an unfamiliar city, she finds herself caught up in the charms … Read More Mongrel by Hanako Footman
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