Tag: friendship
+ female friendship, fiction, friendship, grief, loss, love, review
The Cartography of What Remains by Eva Schep (The Going Back Series Book #1)
She can go back. Not in memory. In fact. Since Tomas died, Lena has made her life small enough to survive. The chipped cup on the left side of the sink. The bread folded twice. The keys in the bowl by the door. And one impossible thing her grief allows. She can step into the kitchen they shared and stand in the fixed afternoon … Read More The Cartography of What Remains by Eva Schep (The Going Back Series Book #1)
Save Her by Abigail Osborne
Would you sacrifice your marriage to save your best friend? Bound by the traumas of their childhood, Flora and Sophie were inseparable long before they married brothers and joined the rich and powerful Cavendish family. But behind the polished façade of the family estate lurks Cecelia. The cold and controlling matriarch is determined to remind both women they will never be good enough for … Read More Save Her by Abigail Osborne
Wonderful by Louise Beech
Three women, three eras, surprising things in common… On 4th August 1962, the night she should have died, Marilyn Monroe – the biggest star in the world – receives a visitor who changes the course of her destiny. The Virgin Mary appears in her kitchen with a curious message. Inspired, Marilyn abandons her home, her life, her fame, and disappears into the night… #WonderfulX/Twitter #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #booktwitter Instagram @randomthingstours #bookstagram #blogtour … Read More Wonderful by Louise Beech
+ Canada, child abduction, child abuse, fiction, friendship, kidnapping, murder, obsession, politics, review, thriller
Wednesday Night Whites by Marci Lin Melvin
As women go missing and the small village of Chester, Nova Scotia, grapples with murder after murder, domestic violence is at an all-time high. There’s only one common theme. The men charged with assaulting their girlfriends and wives belong to a secret club called the ‘Wednesday Night Whites’. But who’s running the show? Bookstagram Tour: 18th – 24th May Genre: Crime | Mystery Pages: 360Publisher: Her … Read More Wednesday Night Whites by Marci Lin Melvin
+ crime fiction, family, fiction, friendship, murder, police procedural, review, spiritualism, thriller
The Dying Hour by Jane Jesmond
The wind still carries the memory of a recent storm across the Yorkshire hills. But it’s not the weather that’s set the dogs howling all day… When police officer Josh Mason is sent to investigate a complaint at Cooper’s Stables, he expects nothing more than an awkward conversation with the yard’s notoriously difficult owner. What waits behind the locked gates will haunt him forever. … Read More The Dying Hour by Jane Jesmond
+ 1930s, diary, family, female friendship, fiction, friendship, germany, grief, Historical fiction, jews, loss, love, music, nazi germany, review, siblings, twins
The Diva’s Daughter by Heather Walrath
Munich & Vienna, 1932. Aspiring opera singer Angelika Eder thought she had it all — a cultured life in Vienna, along with the guidance of her glamorous mother, a world-famous soprano. But when tragedy strikes and her mother dies amidst a swirling family scandal, eighteen-year-old Angelika finds herself uprooted to Munich, where civil unrest is rife and leaders of the increasingly powerful Nazi Party … Read More The Diva’s Daughter by Heather Walrath
The Tradwife’s Lie by Bella Ellwood-Clayton
In Westbrook, wives are currency. Belonging has a price. And the most dangerous thing a woman can do is change her mind. MARNII didn’t come here to be brave…I came to disappear. After New York, after the firm, after everything that broke me, Westbrook felt safe. Predictable. A place where the rules were clear, and someone else made the decisions. Elke chose me. That … Read More The Tradwife’s Lie by Bella Ellwood-Clayton
+ 1930s, 1940s, friendship, germany, guest post, Historical fiction, holocaust, jewish history, jews, nazi germany, non-fiction, twins, World War Two, WW2
Kalman & Leopold: Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz by Richard K. Lowy
A rare, eyewitness account of survival inside Mengele’s Auschwitz, told in the voices of two teenage boys¬ An intergenerational project preserving living memory as survivors pass away¬ A son carrying forward his father’s testimony with urgency and care¬ A book designed for education, classrooms and younger readers as well as adults¬ A story of survival, friendship and moral resilience amid systematic cruelty¬ A warning from history that speaks directly … Read More Kalman & Leopold: Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz by Richard K. Lowy
+ 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, fiction, friendship, revenge, review, serial killer, thriller
Liar Thief by May Rinaldi
Winner of the Black Spring Crime Prize 2024 ‘This is a psychological thriller unlike anything you’ve ever read before.’ Luca Veste, author of The Bone Keeper Ginnie says she is a serial killer who kills people who have wronged her. No one believes her. Author Fiona Taylor is writing Ginnie’s memoir, The Killer Inside, trying to understand why Ginnie should still insist that she’s a killer. … Read More Liar Thief by May Rinaldi
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
+ audio book, feel-good, fiction, friendship, loss, love
The Light a Candle Society by Ruth Hogan
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. George McGlory – recent widower, part-time librarian, pub quiz enthusiast and lover of loud shirts – witnesses a public health funeral and is deeply moved by the sight of the lonely coffin with no flowers and no mourners in attendance. He joins forces with Elena, a florist, Edwin, an undertaker, … Read More The Light a Candle Society by Ruth Hogan
+ feel-good, fiction, friends, friendship, love
The Croatian Island Library by Eva Glyn
Where books are borrowed, friendships are forged and secrets uncovered… As a beautiful summer unfolds in the Croatian islands, Ana Meštrović embarks on a new venture – transforming her beloved catamaran into a floating library. Joined by crew members Lloyd, a widower whose past threatens to overshadow everything, and Natali, a young mechanic afraid of her own shadow, the newly formed trio all have … Read More The Croatian Island Library by Eva Glyn
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