The year is 1939 and Britain is at war. The Patchwork Girls begins with Helen visiting the London apartment she shared with her MP husband, John, after his untimely death. Unable to stay there she goes to stay with her…
About the Author Source – review copy By following the clues, and looking to see what was missing from the information being provided, I was soon able to work out who had been killed and who had been sent to…
Hannah Beckerman has written a perfectly paced story where the reader slowly comes to understand what has happened and why. Moving between past and present, between Annie and Nell, in alternating chapters works so well to reveal what happened, to…
Goodreads – Mary Wood Like Loading… Down on their luck, all they have left is friendship….. Twitter Goodreads – Maggie Mason Related It is 1937 and Alice, Edith and Marg continue to face hardships every day, growing up on one…
Joanne Harris’ novels include Gentlemen and Players, Chocolat, The Strawberry Thief, Five Quarters of the Orange, Different Class, The Lollipop Shoes, Runemarks, The Gospel of Loki, Sleep, Pale Sister and Orfeia. Her latest novel, A Narrow Door, was published by…
From the back of the book About the Author My thanks to Anne at Random Things Tours for the invitation to take part in the tour andto the publishers Avon for my review copy from Netgalley. The Collector’s Daughteris available…
It’s just really fucking good. It really stands up to a re-read; I could reread it multiple times and still get a lot out of it. It’s the quintessential campus novel; in terms of our protagonist being a bit of…
For me, romance doesn’t have to be original for me to like it; I like the predictability of it, and the way it’s comforting and sometimes unrealistic – it makes a great escapism. But I have to say, I loved…
The author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel To Die For (in which she also plays the role of Nicole Kidman’s attorney) and the bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, Maynard makes her home in…
The starter book this month is The Lottery and other Stories by Shirley Jackson, a collection of chilling short stories. Her other novels include the well known We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House and…
