Doctoring is an occupation reserved for humans. Bots are considered to make terrible doctors for the same reason we make such excellent dentists: our total lack of empathy. Empathy is so important in a medical doctor that it is even…
Two days before he passed away, I asked to see the short bio my dad had written about my grandpa and his various achievements. It outlined that during my grandpa’s life he had spoken or translated French, Portuguese, Latin, Spanish…
Amazon: For readers of The Help, Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours comes a beautiful and heartbreaking novel about redemption, family secrets and the spirit of survival found at the hardest time. Suzette D. Harrison, a native Californian and the middle of three daughters,…
Related For the first time, Melanie Blake reveals her biggest secret, that her career started as an extra on the set of Coronation Street and EastEnders. It was there she began clawing her way from the bottom of the ‘Soap…
After some considerable research and weeding out unsuitable applicants, Jess chooses someone to be Hannah’s future husband. He sounds ideal on paper, someone who anyone would be happy to go out with. There was a predictably mixed response from Hannah’s…
I’ve always loved reading memoirs – Places I Stopped on the Way Home by Meg Fee, Wild by Cheryl Strayed and The Best of Us by Joyce Maynard are three of my all-time favourites – a penchant I think is…
More than LGBTQIA+ representation, I really liked the way Perri used the book to comment on gender constructs and society’s perceptions of gender. Cassidy’s attitudes to her clothing and the ways she views herself was a refreshing and poignant part…
Charlotte kindly answered a few of my questions. After fleeing Manchester for London, Constance attempts to put past tragedies behind her and make a fresh start. When she embarks on a relationship with the new doctor at the medical practice…
It’s paperback publication day for All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle today. I listened to this book last year on Audible and adored it. For some reason I didn’t share my review on the blog then, so thought today…
The author of Kitchen Essays (1922) was sister-in-law to the great Gertrude Jekyll, whose biographer wrote that if she ‘was an artist-gardener, then Agnes was an artist-housekeeper.’ Agnes was a famous hostess (the guests at her first dinner party included Browning, Ruskin…
