Barrowbeck
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Welcome to Barrowbeck. A hard place to live. A harder place to leave. For centuries, the...
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The Queen of Fives
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They whisper her name in every corner of town. The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives. ...
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On the Threshold
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Obsessed with learning the origins of the cosmos, the actual meaning of life, and the true purpose...
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The Diva's Daughter
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Munich & Vienna, 1932 Aspiring opera singer Angelika Eder thought she had it all — a cultured...
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Tangled in Water
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1932. Natalia is 16 and a bootlegger's daughter, playing the mermaid mascot on a rundown paddlewheel...
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The Weather Woman
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The rich and atmospheric new novel from prize-winning author Sally Gardner, set in the 18th century...
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The Man in the Stone Cottage
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In 1846 Yorkshire, the Brontë sisters— Charlotte, Anne, and Emily— navigate precarious lives...
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Ravenscourt
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He wanted to be gone from the dark enclosing room, with its mocking misery, to be gone from this...
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Rainbow in Books
Aug 1, 2021
I am not normally a fan of historical fiction but the cover and then the blurb had me interested and I am so pleased I didn't let this pass me by. Although this is a work of fiction, it is inspired by a true story but it feels like a "real" story and I was totally and utterly absorbed and invested in the lives of all the characters.
The story starts off in the present when Isla finds a photograph of her grandad in a German uniform, this raised questions and caused confusion as the story always told was how her grandad fought against the German's in World War II. Unable to find answers from her grandad, who has dementia, she begins a quest to uncover the truth and so begins this brilliantly written story of war, adversity, strength, courage, love, loss and friendship.
I am unable to give this book the review it deserves, I can't find the right words to put across how much I enjoyed it for which I apologise but a massive thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
A Thousand Moons
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From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Even when you come out of...
Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Post American Civil War Trigger warning: rape Native American Indians