Publisher Michael Joseph, 29th April 2021įive hundred Italian prisoners-of-war arrive to fortify these remote and windswept islands. And a wall of death rider is part of a love story which will last through time. Young people, with their lives before them, make choices which echo down the years. In a story spanning over fifty years, Ruth Hogan conjures a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes and villains, the lost and the found. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail which might just lead right to Madame Burova’s door. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when she discovers something that leaves her very identity in question. In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. She holds two brown envelopes in her hand, and she has to deliver them. Before that, however, she has to fulfill a promise made a long time ago. But Madame Burova is weary of other people’s lives, their ghosts from the past and other people’s secrets, she needs rest and a little piece of life for herself. Her cards had unmasked them all and her cards never lied. She has seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Imelda Burova has spent a lifetime keeping other people’s secrets and her silence has come at a price. Kickstarter supreme courtship series#London. Junior TV newsroom journalist Marie has spent six months exposing a gang of sex traffickers, but everything is derailed when New Scotland Yard announces the re-opening of Operation Andromeda, the notorious investigation into allegations of sex abuse at an army base a decade earlier…Īs the lives of these two characters intertwine around a single, defining event, a series of utterly chilling experiences is revealed, sparking a nail-biting race to find the truth … and justice. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak…Ģ006. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. In a house where everyone has something to hide, is it possible to get too close?ġ996. But it’s not long until she realizes this couple isn’t all they seem. It could be the perfect opportunity to get closer to the story she’s read so much about. When Chloe’s nan is moved into care, leaving Chloe on the brink of homelessness, she takes a desperate step: answering an ad to be a lodger in the missing girl’s family home. The case of Angie Kyle – a girl, Chloe’s age, who went missing as a child. But there’s one story that she can’t stop thinking about. Working as a newspaper archivist in the day and taking care of her nan in the evening, she’s happy simply to read about the lives of others as she files the news clippings from the safety of her desk. There’s is a thread through all of them though – strong female characters and an understanding of how life’s events, including trauma, affect women mentally.Ĭhloe lives a quiet life. I’ve travelled from Ireland, to Orkney via Kenya, and from the 1940s to the present day and from a feminist manifesto to charming, uplifting reads. I’m thinking it needs to calm down a little in the weeks ahead. Something I haven’t managed since my university days. First of all I reached a milestone of over 20 books read in a month. What an incredible mix of reading I’ve had in April.
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