[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A creepy and sinister atmospheric thriller, suffocating and murky, that will get under your skin and hold you captive, lamp-lights burning (and doors locked) as you read on, losing conviction (but still optimistic! ) that you will be able to figure it all out. We. They.Insider. Outsider.Visitor.…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ Like waves on an ocean, inexorable and relentless, this brilliant and devastating book washes over you, forcing an acknowledgement, a look squarely in the eye, of a time when the shattering abuse of First Nations parents, and their innocent and helpless children, was not only prevalent, but…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A top-notch psychological thriller, this book will leave you reeling, heart a-flutter, shaking your head at the clever and oh-so-neatly-executed twist of a (tidy) ending. Infused with menace and foreboding, saturating each page with such deadly apprehension (for this reader, deeply reminiscent of reading the best work…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A stunningly-candid, painfully-beautiful memoir of one incredibly successful woman’s journey, a microcosm of joy and trauma, peeled back in the spirit of illuminating, exposing, and ultimately revealing hidden truths that just may resonate as some of the kindest and most caring hard-earned learnings “women like us” need…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Which of us hasn’t dreamed of starting over - a new life, a braver life, a chance to give center-stage to the long-buried and treasured, following the heart and acknowledging at last that “nothing that makes you smile that insanely could possibly be a bad idea”. Whatever…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 My first review of an audio book, I could not have hoped for a richer or more immersive experience of this gentle, wise and oh so perfectly charming story. The pitch-perfect narration, pleasant pacing, and wonderful soothing voice of this audio recording enthralled me for an afternoon…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A brilliant excursion into the darkest, grittiest corners of Glasgow, where we meet what has to be one of the most spell-binding protagonists ever crafted - Rilke, a forty-seven year old head-auctioneer - a man, “too tall, too thin, too cadaverous to look like anything other than…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Extraordinarily tricky - this book will have you going back to re-read sections - shaking your head in wonder as you uncover the fiendishly-clever writing required to support that crazy-out-of-nowhere-humdinger-of-an-ending. This adroitness alone would easily merit the five stars - but this is one snappy, absorbing, fascinating…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 “Nature has no moral code. No ethical qualms about collateral damage.It’s about survival: of yourself and your progeny.That’s it”. Or is it? A crisply-paced and an incredibly compelling read, this book will keep you reading late into the night, as these terribly-flawed but not-improbable characters decide…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The essence of love - the beautiful and tragic, the extraordinary and the mundane - revealed with such finesse and poignancy, that reading this book is an experience as painful as it is incandescent. What do we each bring to our relationships - our loves - but…