Published By: Random House/DoubledayPages: 384Released On: 15/09/2022 1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is aContinue reading “All The Broken Places – John Boyne”
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The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
Published By: Tinder PressPages: 448Released On: 30/08/2022 Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a sinister purpose in bringing her here. He intends to kill her. Lucrezia is sixteenContinue reading “The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell”
Looking For Jane – Heather Marshall
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 390Released On: 11/08/2022 2017: When Angela discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession in a stack of forgotten letters, she begins to look for the intended recipient. Her search takes her to the 1970s and 80s, when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network knownContinue reading “Looking For Jane – Heather Marshall”
That Bonesetter Woman – Frances Quinn
Published By: Simon and SchusterPages: 448Released On: 21/07/2022 It’s usual, they say, for a young person coming to London for the first time to arrive with a head full of dreams. Well, Endurance Proudfoot did not. When she stepped off the coach from Sussex, on a warm and sticky afternoon in the summer of 1757,Continue reading “That Bonesetter Woman – Frances Quinn”
Two Storm Wood – Philip Gray
Published By: Harvill SeckerPages: 352Released On: 13/01/2022 THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT. 1919. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot yetContinue reading “Two Storm Wood – Philip Gray”
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle – Jennifer Ryan
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 368Released On: 09/06/2022 After renowned London fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor he she fled decades ago. She arrives with nothing but the clothes she stands in, at a loss as to howContinue reading “The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle – Jennifer Ryan”
The Memory Keeper of Kyiv – Erin Litteken
Published By: BoldwoodPages: 373Released On: 16/05/2022 In the 1930s, Stalin’s activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating a man-made famine that, in Ukraine, stole almost 4 million lives. Inspired by the history the world forgot, and the Russian government denies, Erin Litteken reimaginesContinue reading “The Memory Keeper of Kyiv – Erin Litteken”
The Dance Tree – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 304Released On: 12/05/2022 Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in toContinue reading “The Dance Tree – Kiran Millwood Hargrave”
The Lives of Diamond Bessie – Jody Hadlock
Published By: SparkPressPages: 328Released On: 05/04/2022 Pregnant out of wedlock, sixteen-year-old Annie Moore is sent to live at a convent for fallen women. When the nuns take her baby, Annie escapes, determined to find a way to be reunited with her daughter. But few rights or opportunities are available to a woman in the 1860s,Continue reading “The Lives of Diamond Bessie – Jody Hadlock”
Guinevere: The Dragon Ring – Fil Reid
Published By: Dragonblade PublishingPages: 306Released On: 10/01/2022 Gwen, a twenty-four-year-old librarian, lives with her boyfriend Nathan in a small house, with all the accoutrements of modern living any girl could ask for. When her father dies, and with her ne’er-do-well twin brother on the other side of the world, it’s left to Gwen to fulfillContinue reading “Guinevere: The Dragon Ring – Fil Reid”
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