Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully...
The Modern Woman's Guide to Finding a Knight
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Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball
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A GORGEOUSLY GOTHIC, WICKEDLY FUNNY NEW SERIES FROM WITCH WARS ILLUSTRATOR LAURA ELLEN ANDERSON...
Wide Sargasso Sea
Angela Smith, Jean Rhys and Andrea Ashworth
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Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of "Jane Eyre's" 'madwoman in the attic',...
The Severed Streets
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Summer in London: a city in turmoil. The vicious murder of a well-known MP is like a match to tinder...
Letters to Strabo
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Set in the late 1970s, Letters to Strabo is the fictional autobiography of Adam Finnegan Black, or...
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Beth has a husband who is struggling with Beth’s roles as a mother and a wife and consequently won’t have sex with her. The final main character, Lauren, is a model and seems to have it all. At least that’s what her Instagram posts tell us (and by the way, some of the comments on her Instagram posts are so funny. Not very nice, but very funny!).
These are all very relatable women, we may not have ‘been there’ but we can understand and relate to where they’re coming from. Beth’s employee, Risky (and what an appropriate name that is!) was such a good character - she seemed to be there to remind the reader that everything is normal, and we should support and empower one another as women. And she was hilarious. Because I both laughed out loud and I cried at this book. Parts were just heartbreaking, saved by a healthy dose of black humour.
This is the first Dawn O’Porter book I’ve read, and it’s thanks to The Pigeonhole that I got the opportunity to do so. She’s not an author that I’d immediately think of reading, but I’m so glad that I did. This is an excellent book, and I’d highly recommend it.
The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman
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'No one keeps more secrets. No one is better at hiding them. SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH...
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