An Extraordinary Sacrifice: The Story of PC Nicola Hughes 16.10.1988 - 18.09.2012
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On September 18 2012, PC Nicola Hughes and her colleague PC Fiona Bone were shot dead by a...
Beautiful Ever After
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Katie Piper's extraordinary story of strength and recovery after a brutal rape and acid attack has...
I Love You, Mum, I Promise I Won't Die
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I'd had a conversation specifically with Dan about ecstasy. It's one of the things you do as a...
Mind The Child: The Victoria Line
Camila Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company
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Kids Company, a leading London charity supported by Prince Charles, Helen Mirren and Stephen Fry,...
Washing Up is Good for You
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When you let yourself focus on any activity, however mundane, when you feel the warm water running...
Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated The Legacy in Books
Jul 1, 2021
What follows is a weekend of arguments, sly digs and suspicion. And when the ex wife turns up, it looks like things could get explosive between her and her ex husband’s grieving partner. The family have never taken to her, blaming her for splitting the family up.
It was very interesting seeing the family dynamics, and trying to work out the secrets that the siblings are hiding from each other and what big things have been going on in their lives that the others don’t know about.
A very interesting concept, and something that I don’t know a lot about. Definitely one that I’ll be recommending to people who want something a little different.
Australia Burns (Show Australia Some Love #3)
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Stories in this collection are contributed by authors who care about Australia and the relief...
Paranormal Horror Science Fiction Short Stories Anthology Charity
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1)
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Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her...
Sam (74 KP) rated The Woman Who Stole My Life in Books
Mar 27, 2019
The Woman Who Stole My Life opens with Stella’s return to Ireland, and the whole book focuses on her past and what happened when she was ill and then when she went to America. From breaking up with her husband to new friendships and relationships, Stella’s story is followed throughout the novel and left me wishing for her to get a happy ending.
I had wanted to start reading Marian Keyes for a while, especially since I’m so into Cecelia Ahern lately. And The Woman Who Stole My Life came up on the 3 for £10 offer on Amazon so I was more than happy to order it.
I’m not sure that if it hadn’t have been on that offer I would have bought it, but I was pleasantly surprised in the end. It’s a generally good book, with only a few parts that took me a while to get into. I’ve already bought another one of Marian Keyes’s books from a charity shop because I just find her writing style so interesting and easy to read.
This book started out slowly, at least mystery wise, since it had the hard job of setting up the series as well as solving the mystery. However, the second half included some good twists and turns as well as payoff for the set up. Penn is an interesting main character since she is pricklier than we normally see in a cozy mystery, but the reasons for her behavior as fully explained and understandable. I’m looking forward to seeing some growth from her as the series progresses, and we already see some of that here.
NOTE: I received an ARC of this book.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2017/09/book-review-asking-for-truffle-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.