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A Year in Crafts: 52 Seasonal Projects to Make and Give

Clare Youngs

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Here are 52 beautifully simple step-by-step ideas to get you crafting throughout the year. Start in...

Everyday Grain-Free Baking: Over 100 Recipes for Deliciously Easy Grain-Free and Gluten-Free Baking

Kelly Smith

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Tasty, easy-to-make recipes for grain-free, dairy-free baking! Cinnamon Swirl Bread. Fruit and Nut...

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician, 1716-1783

Jane Brown

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Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and...

Fix Your Bike: Repairs and Maintenance for Happy Cycling

Jane Moseley, Jackie Strachan and Claire Rollet

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Everyone's cycling nowdays. City streets are thronged with cyclists on the latest cool bikes, and...

Hazel (2934 KP) rated Those People Next Door [Audiobook] in Books

Feb 5, 2023

This is a tense story of how one seemingly innocuous action can spiral out of control resulting in tragedy and heartache.

Salma, Bill and Zain move into their new home in the hopes of making a fresh start. The move has stretched them financially but they are determined to make the best of things and when they are invited to a barbecue in order to get to know their neighbours, things appear to be going well. However, when Zain's banner is removed from their front garden and dumped on their lawn by their neighbour, Tom, things quickly start to escalate culminating in a horrendous incident which leaves on of the characters in a coma and another standing trial for attempted murder.

This a really tense and, sadly, believable story of how misunderstandings, intolerance and lies can ruin lives. The characters aren't particularly likeable and this did mean that I actually didn't care what the outcome was for any of them but I did enjoy getting there and the twists and turns along the way!

The narrator, Tania Rodrigues, was excellent and really brought the story to life.

I have never read or listened to anything by Kia Abdullah before but I will certainly be keeping my beady eyes and ears open in the future and I must thank HarperCollins UK Audio and NetGalley for enabling me to listen to and share my thoughts of Those People Next Door.