Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 320Released On: 23/03/2023 Too much imagination can be a dangerous thing It has been five years since writing fiction was banned by the government. Fern Dostoy is a criminal. Officially, she has retrained in a new job outside of the arts but she still scrawls in a secret notepad inContinue reading “End of Story – Louise Swanson”
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You Get That From Me – Charlotte Butterfield
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 368Released On: 09/03/2023 You can’t choose your family… Stella thought she knew how her life would turn out. A stellar career, the perfect husband (not like her own good-for-nothing dad), two gorgeous children, a dog to take on muddy countryside walks. But here she is: forty, single, living with her mum and grandmother,Continue reading “You Get That From Me – Charlotte Butterfield”
Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 464Released On: 15/11/2022 Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star withContinue reading “Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan”
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”
Nora Goes Off Script – Annabel Monaghan
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 272Released On: 07/06/2022 Nora Hilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns the collapse of her marriage into the best script of her life. When it’s picked up forContinue reading “Nora Goes Off Script – Annabel Monaghan”
The Wedding Season – Katy Birchall
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 400Released On: 26/05/2022 Freya Scott is getting married. Her wedding to Matthew, her long-term boyfriend, is the first of eight in her calendar this year, and as someone who prides herself on being meticulously organised, Freya is intent on making it the perfect day to remember. But when Matthew callsContinue reading “The Wedding Season – Katy Birchall”
The Tea Ladies of St Jude’s Hospital – Joanna Nell
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 352Released On: 03/03/2022 The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty years, long after anybody can remember who Marjorie Marshall actually was. Staffed by successive generations of dedicated volunteers, the beloved cafeteria is known as much for offering a kindContinue reading “The Tea Ladies of St Jude’s Hospital – Joanna Nell”
A Queen For All Seasons – Joanna Lumley
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 320Released On: 28/10/2021 In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventh years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She is Britain’s longest reigning monarch and the very first to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. Joanna Lumley guides us as we meet Princess Elizabeth in 1952, aged just twenty five, and aboutContinue reading “A Queen For All Seasons – Joanna Lumley”
A Spark of Light – Jodi Picoult
Published By: Hodder & StoughtonPages: 355Date Released: 30/10/2018 The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center – a women’s reproductive health services clinic – its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all insideContinue reading “A Spark of Light – Jodi Picoult”
Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers
Published by: Hodder & StoughtonPages: 368Date released: 29/04/2021Date read: 03/05/2021 1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and – on the brink of forty – living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape.Continue reading “Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers”
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