Book for Door 19 Festivus: Read any comedy, parody, or satire A fun book that mixes humour, real people and the stresses of spending Christmas together. "The Adults" is a story of two middle-class English couples spending Christmas together at a cabin in a forest in Yorkshire (this is Engl...
I was expecting another light romance, so I was surprised by such a grim read. This story is really more about coping with loss and persevering in the face of adversity, and contains some strangely joyless and certainly uncompelling romance on the side. It was interesting enough to keep me reading u...
This book had quite a profound effect on me. It’s the story of a married couple, Charlotte and Henry, who are living in England in the 1960’s. Charlotte is an artist, but when she begins to have children, she goes through a depressed period and has difficulty painting or dealing with life as a mo...
By: Gilly MacMillan Narrators: Penelope Rawlins, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart ASIN: B01B263FVQ Publisher: Hachette Audio Publication Date: 3/3/2016 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars Gilly Macmillan returns following What She Knew with her second gripping psychological thriller, THE PERFECT GIRL -a h...
Publisher: Tinder Press, August 13th 2015 (hardback edition) ISBN: 978-1472230614 Source: Review copy from publisher Rating: 5* Synopsis: Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, can...
It is the harsh winter of 1962/3, Henry and Charlotte are struggling in a poky, damp cottage near Cambridge. They have a sick baby with another expected soon. Henry (a British Indian) hates the cold and wants to emigrate to Australia to get some heat back in his bones but Charlotte doesn't want to g...
Publication Date: Available Now from Head of Zeus Source: Publisher Review Copy. Some secrets destroy you. Rob and Anna have only just met Owen and Kim. Now they've boarded their handsome old boat to travel to a far off island in the Caribbean. With only the four of them on board, it should be p...
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