⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Emotional. Thoughtful. Poignant. Eva (Evangeline) is a twenty eight year old woman, a photographer, who is fascinated with old and crumbling things. Eva becomes part of a group of “urban explorers” who visit derelict and abandoned buildings - each of them looking for beauty and yearning for a connection…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️➕ This book took my breath away. Literally. Towards the very end of the story, I became aware that I was holding my breath, allowing in only tight short intakes, afraid to disturb the rhythm of the space I had dropped into, not wanting it to ever end. This is…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What happens when your world is suddenly unrecognizable - when everything, everyone, you thought you knew; in fact, you built your life around; is suddenly, dramatically (explosively) shifted. Meet Lexi Greenwood. Wife. Mother. Friend. Lexi and her family live in a quiet middle-class British suburb just outside of London.…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Please tell me this will be a series! Set in the year 1910 in and around London, “The Wrong Sort to Die” completely captivated me from page one, and I found it hard to stop reading until I was all done. Our main protagonist, Margaret, is a sharp, gutsy,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I adore first-person present-tense novels. There is something so claustrophobic, so intense, so jumpy about being in another person’s head as their world unfolds - whether real or imagined, you feel it all, and in the slowly building structure of a novel that reads like a emotionally-dizzying journal, the…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s been a while since I read an endearing rom-com, and I can so understand the appeal. Some days there is nothing quite like losing yourself to the pages of a charming work of fiction, - one with quirky and unusual characters, who each aren’t aware of the others…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Challenging. Hilarious. Powerful. This is quite possibly the strangest book I will ever read. And one that I just can’t stop thinking about. Our story is a journal of sorts, written by an unnamed man, who we “know” to be about forty years old. (But therein lies the rub…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Terrifying. Prophetic. Thoughtful. The End of Men, amazingly, was finished approximately one year before the 2020 COVID pandemic struck. This novel tells the tale of a fictional global pandemic in the year 2025, which is eerily similar in many ways to COVID with its sudden onset, horrifying sweep across…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What is true parental love - in its purest form - and what is actually narcissism, loneliness, vanity, fear of the emptiness left by our own unfulfilled parenting? Does it matter why we love our children as long as we do? What does it take to spin this love…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this book. It doesn’t happen often enough for me but from the very first pages I felt myself sinking into this story, so warm and comfortable, exactly like the way you feel when you meet someone for the very first time and instantly know you are going…