The Animals at Lockwood Manor... About the Book: Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum's collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the … Continue reading Book Review: The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
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Book Review: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Wolfe Island… About the Book: Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company … Continue reading Book Review: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Behind the Pen with Catherine Noske
Last week I reviewed a stunning debut literary novel, The Salt Madonna, and today, I am thrilled to welcome its author Catherine Noske here to Behind the Pen. Describe The Salt Madonna in five words: Broken voices, an isolated island. What was the initial genesis for The Salt Madonna? There are two answers to this … Continue reading Behind the Pen with Catherine Noske
Book Review: The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske
The Salt Madonna… About the Book: This is the story of a crime. This is the story of a miracle. There are two stories here. Hannah Mulvey left her island home as a teenager. But her stubborn, defiant mother is dying, and now Hannah has returned to Chesil, taking up a teaching post at the … Continue reading Book Review: The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske
Book Review: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Mercies... About the Book: On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for … Continue reading Book Review: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Book Review: Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Big Lies in a Small Town… About the Book: North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold - until … Continue reading Book Review: Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Book Review: An Almost Perfect Holiday by Lucy Diamond
An Almost Perfect Holiday... About the Book: Summer is here, and down in Cornwall Lorna's holiday cottages are fully booked. The sun loungers are lined up beside the swimming pool, the sky is blue and a new set of arrivals are on their way... Em's planned the perfect break with her teenagers plus her new … Continue reading Book Review: An Almost Perfect Holiday by Lucy Diamond
Book Review: I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes... About the Book: A fairy-tale for grown-ups. The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment. There's a slippery Zing, a graceful Zing, and a Zing who runs as fast as a bus. But most significant of … Continue reading Book Review: I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
Book Review: Rogue by A.J. Betts
Rogue – Book 2 in The Vault series... About the Book: ‘There was no going back; there was no choice, anymore. I'd chosen out and this was it: hot-cold, dry-wet, bright-dark and lonely.’ Hayley has gone rogue. She's left everything she's ever known - her friends, her bees, her whole world - because her curiosity … Continue reading Book Review: Rogue by A.J. Betts
Book Review: Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
Allegra in Three Parts… About the Book: ‘I can split myself in two... something I have to do because of Joy and Matilde. They are my grandmothers and I love them both and they totally love me but they can't stand each other.’ Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one … Continue reading Book Review: Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
