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#FridayBookShare – Star Gazing by Linda Gillard

Posted on 16th December 2016 By Nicola

The Friday Book share is taken from Shelley Wilson’s website. Anyone can have a go – all you need to do is answer the following questions […]

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#FridayBookShare – The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

Posted on 24th November 2016 By Nicola

I saw this on Shelley Wilson’s website and thought it was a great idea. Anyone can have a go – all you need to do […]

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Book Haul 📚 Earlier this week I went a bit bers

Book Haul
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Earlier this week I went a bit berserk and ordered all of these gorgeous books. I saw @always_need_more_books' review of #SexEd the other day and it sounds so funny and naughty. 🌶️
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The other books are all historical fiction. I read the eBook of #ATimeToChange a few years ago and loved the time-travel/time-slip storyline. When I heard there was a second Mandeville book, #TheMandevilleSecret, I had to get it and couldn't really not buy a copy of the first book too to reread, could I? 😉
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All three of these are published by @stormbooks_co who are publishing a lot of books that really appeal to me.
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#TheLostDiary and #TheMidwifeOfAuschwitz are both published by @bookouture who also publish a lot of books I love the sound of. The former is a dual-timeline story set around a wartime secret and a long-list diary. The latter is an emotional story of a woman's bravery in WWII. Both sound very much like my kind of read.
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Have you read any of these books?
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New review: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us by @fionaco

New review: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us by @fionacollinsauthor.
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A few years ago I read You, Me and the Movies by Fiona Collins and I was simply blown away by it. In fact, it’s one of my favourite books ever. One of the tropes I most enjoy is forbidden love and that book had it and so does Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us, Collins’ latest book.
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The book begins in spring 1986 when Rachel is engaged to a budding author, Jonny. The relationship offers her the stability she badly needs after a volatile childhood but when she meets Gabe, an American artist, she finds herself on rocky ground as she knows the attraction between them is dangerous to all that she considers important. Over the course of four decades the pair meet four times in each of the four seasons, Rachel clinging to her relationship with Jonny but each time unable to deny the strength of her feelings for Gabe.
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This book is absolutely beautifully written and I savoured every word. Each period of time is so evocative, particularly the 1980s which felt so recognisable. The characterisations are perfect, from the main players down to the bit-part characters, such as the people from the village where Rachel spends her life. The settings are so vivid and I was carried along, thoroughly immersed in the story which is told completely from Rachel’s viewpoint. The reader is torn, just as Rachel is, between her good life with Jonny and what may just be the love of a lifetime with Gabe, and throughout the story I didn’t know how it could all be resolved.
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There’s a gorgeous thread running through the book of the four seasons and all that they bring with them, each one described in such a vibrant way. I travelled through each season and each decade with the characters I grew to love, witnessing the pull of a forbidden passion.
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us is a sweeping and utterly compelling book. I smiled and laughed, and I felt a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. Fiona Collins really gets to the heart of emotions and the tangle of day to day life. I thought it was absolutely wonderful in every way.
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Ad/PR product. New review: Geneva by Richard Armit

Ad/PR product. New review: Geneva by Richard Armitage. To be published on 12th October by @faberbooks.
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For his debut novel Richard Armitage takes as his inspiration Sarah Gilbert, the scientist who co-developed one of the first covid vaccines available for use in the UK. His creation is Sarah Collier, a Nobel prize-winner, who is showing early signs of the Alzheimer’s that is already advanced in her father. Sarah is asked to endorse a technological advancement that could save lives, maybe even her own and so she travels to the conference at the Schiller Institute in Geneva with her husband, Daniel.
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The story is told from the points of view of Sarah and Daniel. Sarah is becoming increasingly confused and Daniel is her rock. What would she do without him? There are also blog posts from a blogger called Terri Landau who specialises in exposing the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.
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Geneva is a fairly fast-paced intelligent thriller with a fascinatingly unreliable narrator in Sarah. Her story is distressing as she struggles with focus and knowing what is real. What’s really interesting in this book is that no character is what they seem and it kept me guessing all the way through. Armitage pulls off some rather clever plot twists!
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I enjoyed Geneva. I felt it had a cinematic feel to it (no surprise given the writer’s background) and I suspect it will translate very well to the screen should that happen. Sarah’s circumstances are told sympathetically, the villains are dastardly and the setting is icy and frosty which is perfect for a suspense-filled novel like this. An accomplished and well-written literary thriller debut.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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Ad/PR product. New review: The Stargazers by Harri

Ad/PR product. New review: The Stargazers by Harriet Evans. Published by @headlinebooks tomorrow!
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The Stargazers is a sweeping epic of a story with an uncomfortable and disturbing dark thread of cruelty that, for me, felt a bit different from Harriet Evans’ previous works. Set mainly in two very distinctive timelines, the 1950s and the 1970s, with added sections from the 1920s and 2020, this is a story of family and whether home is a place or a person.
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Sarah is the main character. In the 1970s she’s moved into a new house with her husband, Daniel. It’s a chance to put her terrible childhood at Fane Hall behind her. Her mother, Iris, is a nasty and unkind person, with no redeeming features, who treated Sarah and her sister Victoria, abysmally. With Daniel and her beloved cello, Sarah hopes to move on into a brighter future. Fane Hall is always there in the background though, a crumbling stately hall which, like many after the wars, fell into disrepair. The 1950s sections give us an insight into Sarah’s childhood spent partly at Fane and it’s impossible to feel anything but horror at her upbringing.
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I had some mixed feelings about this book. I felt at times that it didn’t fully reel me in and despite everything the characters go through I didn’t really take to any of them and feel the empathy and care for them I might have expected to feel, and yet at other times I was so heavily invested that I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the page. It’s absolutely beautifully written and I found myself thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it and I think it’s a book that will stay with me. It’s an all-encompassing sort of read. I don’t know if I was being a bit dense but there are three moments that caused an eye-widening reaction where I was really surprised by a twist in the tale and Evans did an amazing job at dropping them in at just the right time.
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The Stargazers is heart-wrenching and shocking, a family story with a dark edge, a mesmerising but broken setting in Fane Hall, and a childhood that has consequences that will last the whole of Sarah’s life. A fascinating, rich and unforgettable read in many ways.

Characters in Titles 📚 This was such an easy ch

Characters in Titles
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This was such an easy challenge for me. I could have gone on and on finding books with characters in the title. I'm not sure if there are just a lot of this type of title (they are appealing, after all) or if it's just that I like this kind of character driven book.
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I've only read one of them so far (Grace Wheeler) but am really excited about the rest.
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Do you like books with characters in the title?
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People on Spines ✨ I thought I'd have a go at th

People on Spines
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I thought I'd have a go at this challenge today. It was trickier than I expected to find real people on spines and not ones that have been drawn.
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All of these are to be read and all historical fiction.
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Ad/PR product. New review: The Book of Beginnings

Ad/PR product. New review: The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page. To be published by Harper Collins on 28th Sept.
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Sometimes a book comes along that has all the elements I enjoy in a book and The Book of Beginnings is one of those books. I enjoyed Sally Page’s debut, The Keeper of Stories, but I have to say that I ADORED The Book of Beginnings.
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The opportunity to run her uncle’s stationery shop in London comes at just the right time for Jo Sorsby as she needs to get away from the memories of a past relationship. Hopefully life amongst the pens, paper, envelopes and bulldog clips will help her heart to mend. She meets new friends, vicar Ruth who is also running away, and notebook purchaser Malcolm, a man with a project but who doesn’t know what direction to take. Then there’s Eric, a fellow shop owner and gentle giant. Each of the characters brings so much to the story and to Jo’s life.
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One of the first things that struck me about this book is that it brought back my own magical memories of a childhood loving all things stationery. I used to love coming back from a shopping trip with new pens, rubbers, rolls of thick paper or chunky exercise books, just waiting to embark on a new project (or in my case probably random doodles and jottings). The author’s own pleasure in stationery shines through on every page.
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This is a story primarily of the healing power of friendship and how age is no barrier to that. Jo’s new friends range in age and I loved the way that each character brought something new and helped to build the bonds between them. Another element that makes a book special to me is a love story and there is one here, along with bursts of humour that made me laugh out loud. As if this wasn’t enough, Sally Page manages to pop in some interesting historical figures and some intriguing back stories for Ruth and Malcolm, and all this in 400 pages. This is a book crammed with delights and every page is an absolute joy to read. The Book of Beginnings is uplifting, thoughtful and enchanting and will be one of my favourites of this year.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof and to the author for one of her gorgeous @ploomspens fountain pens.

Two for Tuesday 🔸 Today I've chosen two orange

Two for Tuesday
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Today I've chosen two orange covered books from my TBR pile.
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#TalkingAtNight by @clairedaverley is out now. I've wanted to read it since I first heard about it. I've heard it described as a tragic love story which is right up my street.
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#TheBabysitter by @emmacurtisauthor is out next month and is 'a thrilling twisty psychological thriller about motherhood and obsession'. Bring it on!
@michaeljbooks @atlanticbooks
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New review: The Ragged Valley by Joanne Clague. Pu

New review: The Ragged Valley by Joanne Clague. Published by Canelo and out now.
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As a born and bred Sheffielder, the Great Flood of 1864 is something I’ve heard of but, as the author mentions in her note at the back of this book, despite the fact that it killed over 240 people and flattened whole areas, it isn’t all that well known a part of history. The Ragged Valley really brought it to life for me, the sound of the seven hundred million gallons of water thundering through the countryside into the town below sounding all too real in my head.
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The book focuses on three main characters: Silas, a young man who has just arrived in Sheffield looking for a new life working in the steelworks; Harriet, a young woman who lives with her aunt and uncle providing unpaid help around the house and with their children; and John Gunson, the engineer who supervised construction of the dam that burst and who it seems is destined to be the scapegoat of the disaster. The story brings the three characters together gradually, and in Silas and Harriet’s case, spectacularly.
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I enjoyed The Ragged Valley very much. It gave me a sense of the horror of the flood when so many people were either washed away or lost loved ones, and many lost everything they owned. It must have been a horrific and heartbreaking time for all concerned and it was interesting to see how the aftermath was dealt with and the resilience of folk who had no choice but to just carry on as best they could. Joanne Clague’s writing is engaging and empathetic and I very much liked the plot and characters she created. I had a particular soft spot for impetuous and affable Silas and his collie dog, Shandy.
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I’m looking forward to reading book two of The Sheffield Sagas trilogy next. Those who love historical and saga fiction will find much to enjoy in The Ragged Valley.
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Harper Collins Sale Haul 📚 A few weeks ago Harp

Harper Collins Sale Haul
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A few weeks ago Harper Collins had a sale with an irresistible 40% off all their books, including their many imprints.
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As you can imagine, it wasn't exactly difficult to find books I wanted to buy but I managed to narrow it down to these five.
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I've read all of these authors before apart from Cate Green who is a debut author, and they all sound like gorgeous stories and right up my alley.
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August Reads 📚 I'm not entirely sure where the

August Reads
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I'm not entirely sure where the month's gone to but I have at least had a good month's reading. 11 this time (I was determined to get it over my standard 10!).
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There's a nice mixture of thrillers, historical and contemporary fiction here, with some favourite authors and some new ones too.
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Have you read any of these books? What was your favourite August read?

(Nanny Wanted is face forward because the spine is blank)
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Ad/PR product. New review: Three Card Murder by J.

Ad/PR product. New review: Three Card Murder by J.L. Blackhurst. Published by HQ tomorrow.
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I love the premise of Three Card Murder. Half-sisters: Tess who is a police officer and Sarah who is a con artist, their sibling link always destined to tie them together whilst their career choices pull them apart.
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Tess is acting DI on her first murder case. It’s a puzzling locked room murder and who better to help her solve it than a woman who makes illusions look easy. There’s so much more to the cases (for one murder soon turns into more) and to the links between the two women than there at first seems.
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I thought this was an inspired premise, firstly in making the protagonists sisters and then for making them polar opposites in terms of life choices. I particularly liked how each approached and solved mysteries, just on different sides of the law. Tess and Sarah are brilliant characters, well-drawn, feisty and brave risk-takers. I really loved the canny tricks in this book, the small cons as well as the (almost) impossible murders. This is such a clever and unique story.
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Take a female police detective, add in a few murders and then stir in a hefty dose of Hustle and that’s what you have with Three Card Murder. I thought it was cunning and smart and I think there’s scope for a follow up or a series featuring Tess and Sarah.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
@jennyblackhurstauthor @hqstories
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Ad/PR product. New review: The Confession Room by

Ad/PR product. New review: The Confession Room by Lia Middleton. Published by Michael Joseph on 31st August.
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The Confession Room is another fast-paced and exciting thriller from Lia Middleton. Emilia Haines gave up her job as a police officer when tragedy hit her family but the detective instinct hasn’t left her. She spends a lot of time online and on one forum in particular, The Confession Room, where people anonymously share their darkest confessions. Sometimes it’s something they have done and other times it’s something they would like to do. A safe space to vent and share until somebody confesses to murder. Very soon there’s more than one and we have a serial killer on the loose.
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I thought this was a genius idea for a book. I wasn’t sure how the story would work but Middleton has plotted it extremely well and manages to keep up the tension all the way through. There’s a point where I did a sharp intake of breath and the pace changed all over again but really it never lets up. It’s a multi-layered story with more to everything than meets the eye.
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Emilia is a brilliantly-drawn character, with everything and nothing to lose and she veers between putting herself in danger and knowing that she needs to stay safe for her family, but her background as a detective helps her as well as she’s looking for clues that others wouldn’t search for. All in all, The Confession Room is a gripping and thrilling read with a shocking premise. It’s tense, dark, unique and clever and makes you think about what you’re sharing online, even if it’s just an unfulfilled desire. A fantastic and exhilarating read.
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Thank you to the author and publishers for the proof copy of the book.
@liamiddletonauthor @michaeljbooks
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#27Minutes by @ashleytateauthor is set in the smal

#27Minutes by @ashleytateauthor is set in the small town of West Wilmer. Thank you @headlinebooks for my proof copy and the scene setters. I'm looking forward to getting stuck in and finding out exactly why it took Grant Dean 27 minutes to call for help.

#BookPost out February 2024.

Ad/PR product. New review: Nanny Wanted by Lizzy B

Ad/PR product. New review: Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber. Published by Pan Macmillan and out now.
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If books with a strong sense of foreboding set in a sprawling mansion peopled with unreliable characters are your bag then Nanny Wanted has all of those things in spades.
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Lily flees London for Cornwall and the home of the Rowe family after seeing an advert for a nanny. Her reasons for fleeing become apparent as the story progresses but Lily is looking for somewhere where she doesn’t have to look over her shoulder all the time. Enter Kewney Manor and Laurie and Charles Rowe, with their children, Bess and Edward. However, what seems like a haven soon starts to make Lily feel ill at ease. Laurie seems fragile, Charles effortlessly charming, but is anyone what they seem?
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Nanny Wanted is a claustrophobic and intense story of a young woman becoming embroiled in things that she knows nothing about. It’s character-driven and taut with intrigue. A house like Kewney Manor has plenty of dark corners and shady attics, and the house holds its own secrets, although not quite as many as its inhabitants.
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Nanny Wanted is a gothic thriller with all the hallmarks of Daphne du Maurier (Lily, working her way through the author’s works in the library, would no doubt agree) and Lizzy Barber excels at conveying a sense of unease throughout.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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Ad/ PR product. New review: The Stranger Beside Me

Ad/ PR product. New review: The Stranger Beside Me by Caroline England. Published by Piatkus and out now.
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The Stranger Beside Me is a book that kept me guessing all the way through. Who could I trust? Was [insert name of any of the characters] up to no good?
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The story is about two women and told from their points of view. Katy Henry is struggling with life after a tragedy in her family. Sibeal Matthews is also living with a tragic past. The two women at first appear quite different with Katy coming across as meek and Sibeal as strong, but as I got to know them both I could see that each was capable of being the opposite. They’re brought together by chance and an old family link, but end up becoming friends. As the story progresses their lives become ever more complicated.
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It took me a little settling into the story and for the two women’s narratives to become entwined but I was soon at a point where I was racing through the chapters, many of which were fairly short which helped to ramp up the tension. It’s very much a character-driven tale, the backgrounds of all the main players being what propels the plot onwards, with their lives perched on foundations that become more and more unstable.
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My favourite kind of psychological thrillers are those that are centred around everyday life and that’s what I liked so much about The Stranger Beside Me, as well as the unexpected twists in the story and the excellent and engaging writing. I always enjoy Caroline England’s writing and this one is no exception.
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Thank you to the publishers for the review copy of the book and to the author for asking me to be on the #BlogTour.
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Love in Titles 💘 I had a scout round my books a

Love in Titles
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I had a scout round my books and found these books that have the word 'love' in the title. A mixture of read and TBR (I've read and enjoyed The Food of Love, Love on the Rocks and Love, Prescribed), I thought I'd find loads and it was surprisingly difficult.
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Thank you SO much @doubledayukbooks for this amazi

Thank you SO much @doubledayukbooks for this amazing #bookpost package for #Water by John Boyne. Not only is there a proof of the new book by one of my most favourite authors but the package includes the most beautifully scented soap and candle, sea salt chocolate and water (of course!). What a wonderful Friday afternoon treat! 💦

Ad/PR product. New review: More Confessions of a F

Ad/PR product. New review: More Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up by Alexandra Potter. Published by Pan Macmillan and out now.
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More Confessions picks up where the first book left off. Nell is in a happy place with her relationship and her work, the world is just emerging from lockdown and she’s got her brilliant friends, including Cricket, the octogenarian she met through her job writing obituaries.
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Nell is such a relatable forty-something. She’s at the point where life inevitably starts to change for women and it becomes a fork in the road moment for her where she has to decide what’s important to her. Cricket is the most brilliant character. I think we should all aim to be Cricket when we grow up. Best of all, she’s aging gracefully but she’s still sassy, accepting her aging as a privilege rather than a curse. The two women complement each other perfectly.
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Nell has been likened to Bridget Jones but I got more of a sense of Carrie Bradshaw about her. The conversational writing style, the podcast and journalism, the asking of the big questions and not necessarily getting (or expecting) an answer felt very reminiscent of S&TC to me. I love Bridget, I love Carrie, and I love Nell. This is a big book but it’s such an easy read, one which made me laugh out loud, smile wryly and empathise with all the characters.
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A fantastic book about the highs and lows of all that life throws at us, full of wisdom, humour, friendship and love.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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New review: Funicular by T.F. Lince. Out now. 🌊

New review: Funicular by T.F. Lince. Out now.
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For my holiday in Saltburn-by-the-Sea I just had to buy Funicular by T.F. Lince, the water based cliff lift of the title being on the front cover. It’s a really clever, well-plotted book and whilst I read it in situ, I think anyone who likes a mystery combined with a hint of the paranormal will enjoy it.
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DI Bob Dixon has relocated from London to Saltburn with an eye on retirement in the not too distant future. I really liked the early chapters where he gets used to a slower pace of life and new colleagues. Wanting a bit more to do, he looks into the case of Lizzy Scraggs who went missing a few years earlier, never to be heard of again. The more he digs the more bizarre it all gets – it all began with two passengers on the funicular who got in at the top and were gone when the doors opened again at the bottom!
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This is a story that is full of intrigue with a plotline I would never have guessed at. There’s a touch of fantasy about it but not overwhelmingly so and is actually just the level of the unexpected that I enjoy. I liked Bob, a very down to earth copper, and I also really enjoyed his working relationship with the man who becomes a bit of a sidekick for him. His interactions with people around the town made me smile too.
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I found Funicular to be an engaging read, witty at times, suspenseful and a little bit mind-boggling.
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