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A queen imprisoned in an abbey for 15 years. Her husband and daughters die and she prepares to escape… Learwife is the fictional account of King Lear’s wife, derived from the Shakespeare play. The plot begins where the play of King Lear ends and centres around his estranged and exiled queen. I studied King Lear […]

1353, Colmar in Alsace. Three women have survived the Black Death but need to adjust to the changes in their village. The need for money alongside a spate of thefts and murders leads to the women stepping out of their traditional roles to thrive within their community. The Alewives is an historical novel with elements […]

Mo is a child psychologist but cannot understand her own two children. Dora is full of hormones while her brother Peter is embracing a Victorian persona. Can the family survive the dreaded teenage years? A Tiny Bit Marvellous is a family comedy novel which made me laugh but I also found it emotional as the […]

Daisy and Hazel set up a detective agency at their boarding school but cases are few and far between. Until the two school girls discover a body and begin to investigate the murder of one of their teachers… Murder Most Unladylike is a children’s book aimed at ages 9-12. It is a murder mystery but […]

My book club reviewed this the month before I joined so I decided to play catch up! Kya Clark is abandoned by all those she loves. Her mother and siblings leave first then her father and friends. She leads a solitary life and is known derogatively as ‘the marsh girl’. Then, in 1969, she becomes […]