I love Dolly Parton. She's such an original and such a bright spark of honesty and kindness. She's funny, she's smart, she makes fun of herself and handles it brilliantly when others make fun of her. She never talks badly about others and has even been known to offer a helping hand to people who …
I'm so excited to talk about this book with you. Because if you're reading this, you're probably an Alice Hoffman/Practical Magic fan like me, and you're awaiting the new book Magic Lessons, about Maria Owens, the matriarch of the Owens family from Practical Magic, the one who was the first in a long line of …
Romilly grows up with her father, an artist, in a ramshackle house surrounded by a wild garden. She vaguely remembers a life before, when she was 4 and they lived in London with her mother, and also a different time when they lived an itinerant life. But her father won't answer questions about where her …
A prolific writer who has made it to the Guiness Book of Records as the bestselling author of all time, Agatha Christie is a remarkable writer. Largely known for her detective stories, often featuring the Belgian Detective Poirot or the oft underestimated elderly Miss Marple of St Mary Mead, she also wrote plays, including Mousetrap, …
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Astrid Sullivan is on the news for going missing again after the recent publication of her memoir of her abduction at 14. When Fern, a social worker with anxiety problems, sees her on TV she is sure that she met her, but her husband thinks that it's just that her face is well known. But …
Holly and Jules have been friends since university and have shared every important moment of each other's lives. And they know all each other's weak spots and secrets too. When Jules 13 year old daughter Saffie accuses Holly's 16 year old son of raping her, their lives and the lives of their families will be …
"A detective story with no detective" says the tagline on this book, and it's a pretty good description. Set in Edinburgh in 2011, Margaret is a middle aged woman whose life has imploded in London, so she flees to her mothers in Scotland. It's one of the coldest Winters on record, and there are a …
Jia Jia has been married for 4 years, in a relationship based on practical things like making a family rather than love. When her husband announces that they will go on a trip, Jia Jia goes to pack, only to walk into the bathroom to find her husband dead in the bath tub. He has …
Emily, a pretty and young film assistant, is missing. The police have turned up Mia's house to ask her husband Roy what he knows about this girl, since he was the last one to see her alive. The story that follows is Roy's recollection of events against Mia's, bit both of them might not be …
Bell is a nanny in Stockholm who takes on too much from the family she works for. Their lives are all disrupted forever when she answers the phone one day to hear am odd message. Apparently, Hanna has a husband who has been in a coma for 7 years, and he just woke up. To …
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