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    Goodness, what a heartbreaking novel! But also uplifting… Jem has been declared bankrupt, she has split up with her boyfriend Ben and moved back in with her mum. She writes him a letter to put events and her feelings in to words, planning to burn it but her mum ‘helpfully’ posts it. Cue […]

      Heather Shaw returns to her family home to help her dad with the neighbour’s luxurious garden while her mother cares for a sick relative. She isn’t prepared for the onslaught of emotions that seeing her first love Lucas will cause. Lucas is in a very unhappy marriage to Elizabeth and is trying […]

  An orphanage in the 1930s harbours dark secrets. In the present day, Sarah Jennings leaves her husband and buys Cedar Hall, former home of the Burroughs family who ran the orphanage next door. Connie Burroughs lives nearby in a care home, haunted by her father’s past and the lies she tells to herself and […]

  I am a bit miffed as I loved Severed, book 10 of the Jason Smith series, my first introduction to this wonderful author and his lead character. Somehow I missed book 11! And based on the impact it has on events in this book Deadeye, it must have been another stunning read! Anyway, back […]

I absolutely loved this book. I kept annoying my husband and children by telling them what was happening! In 2009, 12 strangers begin jury service and get a murder case that goes on for months. When they begin their deliberation, 11 jurors vote gulty but Maya Seale stands firm and asserts her doubts. Gradually, she […]