Tag: love
+ abuse, adventure, child abuse, childhood, family, fiction, literature, love, obsession, relationships, review, secrets, sisters, writing
Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone
Cat lives in Los Angeles, about as far away as she can get from her estranged twin sister El and No. 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing Gothic house in Edinburgh where they grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the … Read More Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone
+ childhood, family, female friendship, fiction, friendship, love, motherhood, obsession, relationships, review, writing
The Memories We Bury by H.A. Leuschel
An emotionally charged and captivating novel about the complexities of female friendship and motherhood. Lizzie Thomson has landed her first job as a music teacher, and after a whirlwind romance with Markus, the newlywed couple move into a beautiful new home in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Lizzie quickly befriends their neighbour Morag, an elderly, resourceful yet lonely widow, whose own children rarely visit her. … Read More The Memories We Bury by H.A. Leuschel
+ fiction, friends, friendship, literature, love, murder mystery, Publishing, reading, relationships, review, romance, writing
Her Last Words by Kim Kelly
Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It’s 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she’s an old-fashioned girl. She doesn’t even own a mobile phone. She has no stars-in-her-eyes desire for fame, to see her name on the cover of a book, either. She longs only to tell of the stories written on her heart. While her best friends, … Read More Her Last Words by Kim Kelly
+ fiction, friends, friendship, Ghost story, haunting, love, mystery, obsession, Psychological fiction, relationships, review, supernatural, writing
I Am Dust by Louise Beech
When iconic musical Dust is revived twenty years after the leading actress was murdered in her dressing room, a series of eerie events haunts the new cast, in a bewitching, beguiling and terrifyingly dark psychological thriller… The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer. Now Dust, the iconic … Read More I Am Dust by Louise Beech
Summer in the City by Emma Jackson
Stephen is on a very personal mission to find his father as per the wishes in their mother’s will. But he has no idea where to start, not that he’s going to tell anyone that… When Noelle, native New Yorker, daughter of a detective and desperate for a distraction from the novel she’s been struggling to write, offers to help, it feels like the … Read More Summer in the City by Emma Jackson
The Glass House by Eve Chase
Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family takes her in and disbelief quickly turns to joy. They’re grieving a terrible tragedy of their own and the beautiful baby fills them with hope, lighting up the house’s dark, dusty corners. Desperate not to lose her to the authorities, they keep her secret, suspended in a … Read More The Glass House by Eve Chase
Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay
It all started with just one little lie. But we all know that it never ends there. Because, of course, one lie leads to another… Growing up, Jane and Marnie shared everything. They knew the other’s deepest secrets. They wouldn’t have had it any other way. But when Marnie falls in love, things begin to change. Because Jane has a secret: she loathes Marnie’s … Read More Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay
+ childhood, dementia, family drama, fiction, friendship, Kit Williams, literature, Magical realism, relationships, review, The Man Behind the Masquerade, writing
The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby
Romilly lives in a ramshackle house with her eccentric artist father and her cat, Monty. She knows little about her past – but she knows that she is loved. When her father finds fame with a series of children’s books starring her as the main character, everything changes: exotic foods appear on the table, her father appears on TV, and strangers appear at their … Read More The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby
I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry
IT STARTED WITH A KISS AND ENDED IN MURDER… The darkly addictive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I Looked Away, Blood Sisters and My Husband’s Wife. In Poppy Page’s mind, there are two types of women in this world: those who are faithful to their husbands, and those who are not. Until now, Poppy has never questioned which she was. But when handsome, charming Matthew … Read More I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry
