My Mother is a River
Donatella Di Pietrantonio and Franca Scurti Simpson
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The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love “gone wrong...
The Foundling
8.8
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Two women from different worlds. And a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754....
Historical fiction London Georgian Period
Lethal (Lee Coburn, #1)
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When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out...
romantic suspense mystery suspense
ClareR (5945 KP) rated After the Flood in Books
Oct 25, 2021
Myra and her daughter Pearl, live on a boat, a precarious life, reliant on the fish they catch. When Myra discovers that her eldest daughter, the daughter that her husband took with him when he left her, may still be alive, she is determined to find her.
This is a pretty bleak book: people live in fear of illness, starvation, storms and pirates. These pirates kill for people’s possessions, take slaves, run ‘breeding ships’ - and they want to build their own territories on dry land.
This is reminiscent of the film Water World in some places - the promise of a better, dry place to live, the strong preying on the weak. It’s also a book about sacrifice and the lengths a mother will go to to protect her children.
This won’t be the book for you if you like a happy ending, but if you enjoy a book that’s beautifully descriptive, both in emotion and seascape, you’ll love this.
The Push
8.3
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“The women in this family, we’re different...” Blythe Connor doesn’t want history to repeat...
Suspense Mystery Psychological Thriller
Roxanne (13 KP) rated Mog's Missing in Books
Nov 14, 2018
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Jul 16, 2019
Class Action (1991)
7.0
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An attorney representing a traumatized accident victim finds that his opponent is a very familiar...