Just After Midnight... About the Book: From the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes an uplifting and poignant novel about friendship, trust, and facing your fears. No longer tolerating her husband’s borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents’ California beach house to plan her next move. She never dreamed her new … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Just After Midnight by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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New Release Book Review: When The Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
When the Lights Go Out… About the Book: A woman is plunged into a bizarre case of stolen identity in this ambitious and riveting thriller by the blockbuster bestselling author of The Good Girl, Mary Kubica. Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She … Continue reading New Release Book Review: When The Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
New Release Book Review: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Baby Teeth... About the Book: Your husband thinks your daughter’s an angel. You know different. She’s a monster. On the outside it looks like Suzette has it all. A stunning ultra-modern home, designed by her handsome Swedish husband. A beautiful, but silent, seven-year-old daughter who is fiercely intelligent. But under the shiny veneer, the cracks … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
New Release Book Review: Return to Roseglen by Helene Young
Return to Roseglen... About the Book: A moving and insightful family drama about three generations coming to terms with the family matriarch facing her final days. At times like these families should be coming together, not tearing each other apart. On her remote North Queensland cattle station, Ivy Dunmore is facing the end of her … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Return to Roseglen by Helene Young
New Release Book Review: Whistle In The Dark by Emma Healey
Whistle In The Dark... About the Book: Jen's 15-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and the police draw a blank. The once-happy, loving family return to London, … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Whistle In The Dark by Emma Healey
Origin of the Writer: Maggie Ray
Origin of the Writer is a series of essays giving emerging writers the opportunity to share their writing journey so far. “I’ll give you a title,” my classmate said as she pushed a fresh sheet of lined paper at me. “Then you write a story using that title.” Her brown eyes shone with … Continue reading Origin of the Writer: Maggie Ray
Quick Shots Book Review: Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Chasing Windmills... About: A modern-day rendering of West Side Story born on a New York City subway car and nurtured under the windmills of the Mojave Desert. Both Sebastian and Maria live in a world ruled by fear. Sebastian, a lonely seventeen-year-old, is suffocating under his dominant father’s control. In the ten years since his mother passed … Continue reading Quick Shots Book Review: Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Quick Shots Book Review: Mothers and Daughters by Kylie Ladd
Mothers and Daughters... About: Four mothers. Four teenage daughters. An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception. What could possibly go wrong? There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behaviour and breakdowns - and wait till you see what the teenagers get up to... How can we let our daughters go … Continue reading Quick Shots Book Review: Mothers and Daughters by Kylie Ladd
My Reading Life: Jodi Picoult
Welcome to My Reading Life, a series where I revisit the authors and novels that have shaped me into the reader I am today. It’s hard to believe now, but there was period of time that stretched into several years when I didn’t read at all. Or at least, I didn’t read for pleasure, … Continue reading My Reading Life: Jodi Picoult
Book Review: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us... About: SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up - she … Continue reading Book Review: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
