Day: February 25, 2021

Book Review

Remain Silent by Susie Steiner #BookReview #ManonBradshaw3 #TheBoroughPress #NetGalley #4.5*

‘A brilliantly gripping tale’ LUCY FOLEY A TRAGIC DEATH. A TOWN FILLED WITH SECRETS. A NAMELESS BODYA young man is found hanging from a tree, with nothing to identify him. NO LEADS TO FOLLOWWas he driven to suicide, or was he silenced? Somebody knows, but they’re not saying. WHO’S NEXT? With potential witnesses too scared to talk to her, can DI Manon Bradshaw discover the truth … Continue reading Remain Silent by Susie Steiner #BookReview #ManonBradshaw3 #TheBoroughPress #NetGalley #4.5*

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The Talk of Pram Town by Joanna Nadin #Book Review #PanMacmillan-Mantle #NetGalley #4*

It’s 1981. Eleven-year-old Sadie adores her beautiful and vibrant mother, Connie, whose dreams of making it big as a singer fill their tiny house in Leeds. It’s always been just the two of them. Until the unthinkable happens. Jean hasn’t seen her good-for-nothing daughter Connie since she ran away from the family home in Harlow – or Pram Town as its inhabitants affectionately call it – aged seventeen and … Continue reading The Talk of Pram Town by Joanna Nadin #Book Review #PanMacmillan-Mantle #NetGalley #4*

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A Good Father by Catherine Talbot #BookReview #Penguin #NetGalley #4*

‘Brilliant … I couldn’t stop reading’Jo Spain Des is a good husband, a good father – a good man. He encourages his wife’s artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his children every night, and holds down a well-paid, if unfulfilling, job. But appearances can be deceptive. Lately, his wife seems to be forgetting that her art is for his eyes only. And rumours at work … Continue reading A Good Father by Catherine Talbot #BookReview #Penguin #NetGalley #4*

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro #Book Review #Faber&Faber #NetGalley #4*

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and … Continue reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro #Book Review #Faber&Faber #NetGalley #4*

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