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A Tidy Ending

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 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…

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Women Like Us

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ A stunningly-candid, painfully-beautiful memoir of one incredibly successful womanโ€™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 โ€œwomen like usโ€ need…

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The Sweet Shop of Second Chances

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Which of us hasnโ€™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 โ€œnothing that makes you smile that insanely could possibly be a bad ideaโ€. Whatever…

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The Camel and the Butterfly

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 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…

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The Second Cut

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 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, โ€œtoo tall, too thin, too cadaverous to look like anything other than…

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Other Peopleโ€™s Lives

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 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…

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Off Target

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 1/2 โ€œNature has no moral code. No ethical qualms about collateral damage.Itโ€™s about survival: of yourself and your progeny.Thatโ€™s itโ€. 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…

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The Truth about Ben and June

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 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…

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Fledgling

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ โ€œWere it but free, it would soar cloud-highโ€ (Charlotte Bronte) Reading this achingly-tender memoir, embodied through words, is to move beyond words - to the riding of a wave of rapturous, primal connection where emotion, pure and atavistic, soars free. As the author, a young British wife,…

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The Family Man

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=โ€Listenโ€] ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ 1/2 A profoundly chilling thriller, seamlessly blending horror, suspense, police procedure, somewhat-unpredictable twists and turns, and a masterful smattering of characters, including a strong and interesting female lead - Detective Senior Sergeant Veronika Pope. Head of the Special Crime Squad, which investigates cold cases in and around…

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