The Hare is a character driven story about Rosie, a girl who was foisted on her grandmother after her parents death, an orphan who was well aware that she was unwanted. She manages to get a scholarship when she grows up and flees to Parsons to study art, but her low self esteem means that …
Set in North West London, Ruth is woken by a scream one night, and later thinks she sees something, on her quiet cul-de-sac. But no one will believe her and she's not sure that she can believe herself, because after the birth of her baby, she experienced post partum psychosis. Her delusions were strong enough …
Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates when two American girls are left injured and unconscious outside the hospital after a boating accident. At first, he's on the trail of the two boys who left them there and ran away, but the behaviour of one of them seems to hint at something more complicated beneath the surface. Reading …
Three estranged sisters are reunited in a strange city when one of them reads out a charm found in a library book. Drawn together, they each catch a glimpse of a tower that they have only heard of in stories. A tower where three powerful witches may have escaped with the last of the worlds …
Continue reading The Once And Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
Set in a resort town called Baxter's Beach in Barbados, this book centers largely on a girl called Lala, who is pregnant and in an abusive relationship. When her labour starts, she goes looking for help, and ends up knocking on the door of a wealthy home where her husband, co-incidentally, is robbing the owners. …
Continue reading How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Red Island House is loosely short stories or anecdotes about people who live on an island in Madagascar, with the perspective of Shay, a black American woman, as the observer. The through line of the stories is that Shay's wealthy Italian husband has built a gargantuan house there, and the stories take place on our …
Lee is reluctant to head off to college at Smith and on arriving immediately feels like an outsider as though everyone hates her. After being date raped by another student called Tripp, she finds no one believes her and she can get no help. That is until she is accepted into a class on Gender, …
When Amb hits college, still stinging from her high school boyfriends betrayal, she longs to fit in and be popular. She feels immediately drawn to another girl, Sully, who she feels has the confidence, power and popularity that she craves. She starts to go along with whatever Sully suggests, hoping to impress and win her …
Continue reading The Girls Are So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
An American couple are on vacation with their teenage children in Barcelona when their daughter fails to return home one night. Her kidnapping sparks her parents memories of their marriage and leads to revelations of the cracks at the heart of their union and maybe even the reason their child was taken. It's a bit …
After Emily's suicide, her childhood friends meet again at her funeral for the first time in 15 years, and it brings up a lot of unresolved trauma. They were the only survivor's of a mysterious death cult that was based at Read Peak. What really happened there that day? And should they go back and …
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