#5 My favourite character in This Is Our Undoing is Kai. I can’t say an awful lot about him without spoilers, but he is a young child, the adopted son of Lina’s murdered enemy, and he is strange. He’s lost…
‘Who needs all this stuff ?’ he’d said. ‘People bust their guts doing jobs they don’t like to buy stuff they don’t need, just to help corporate criminals ruin the planet.’ ‘I need solitude, to start my spiritual journey.’ He’d…
I’m delighted to be sharing my thoughts today about The Keeper of Songs by Fiona Mountain. My thanks to the author for the proof copy of the book for review purposes. * A doomed love story Like Loading… Related ‘Lady…
Joyce Maynard is the author of seven previous novels, including To Die For, Labor Day, and The Good Daughters, and four books of nonfiction. Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into sixteen languages. Maynard’s bestselling…
There There is a melting pot of voices and protagonists, and the author helpfully lists all the main ones before the book begins so that, very much in the style of a play, you have a vague grasp of who’s…
There is a lot of gentle humour that runs throughout the novel, miscommunication, misdirection and misunderstanding leading Twitten into scraps and situations he hadn’t foreseen when he joined the force. It perhaps doesn’t help that the only person he can…
Readers would still have been introduced to Dr Liz Sullivan (the deceased), a dedicated doctor who was keen to help patients (mostly young men) addicted to gaming. And would also have spent time with Jaden (JD) Dodds, an enthusiastic gamer…
Theo has been living in his parents’ shed, nursing a broken heart and a wounded ego, convinced life can’t get any worse. Then he gets evicted on his 30th birthday. Theo thinks he’s done with the real world – until it…
Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place. The story is told in three different timelines. What’s quite unusual is that these timelines are really…
I got the idea on my wedding day. I was 5 years sober at the time. As I was standing looking at myself in the mirror in my white dress, I couldn’t help thinking – what if just as I…
