Dot Watson has lost her way. Twelve years ago her life veered off course, and the guilt over what happened still haunts her. Before then she was living in Paris, forging an exciting career; now her time is spent visiting her mother’s care home, fielding interfering calls from her sister and working at the London Transport Lost Property office, diligently cataloguing items as misplaced as … Continue reading Lost Property by Helen Paris #BookReview #Transworld #NetGalley #4.5*

‘Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.’ Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Afi’s future doesn’t seem to hold much excitement. Until, that is, she is offered a life-changing opportunity – a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo. She barely knows Elikem, but that seems a … Continue reading His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie #BookReview #OneworldPublications #NetGalley #5*

Annie is not the first love of Graham’s life but she is, he thinks, his last and greatest. Very recently, he has faltered; but he means to put it right. Here they are in marriage, in late middle age, in comfort. Mismatched, and yet so well matched: the bookseller with his appetite, his conviviality, his bigness; the photographer with her delicacy, her astuteness, her reserve. … Continue reading Monogamy by Sue Miller #BookReview #Bloomsbury #NetGalley #4.5*

“There was a mention in the book of ‘middle-class problems’ and, for me, that is exactly what it’s all about” Continue reading The Group by Lara Feigel #BookReview #JohnMurrayPress #NetGalley #3*