Title: Heatstroke Author: Hazel Barkworth Genre: Fiction Publisher: Headline Review Publication Date: 27th May 2021 (paperback) Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: This summer burns with secrets... It is too hot to sleep. To work. To be questioned time and again by the police. At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, everything shifts irrevocably when Lily … Continue reading Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth – Blog Tour Review
Month: May 2021
The Pact by Sharon Bolton – Book Review
Title: The Pact Author: Sharon Bolton Genre: Thriller Publisher: Trapeze Publication Date: 27th May 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed. 18-year-old Megan takes the blame, … Continue reading The Pact by Sharon Bolton – Book Review
Self-Contained by Emma John – Blog Tour Review
Title: Self-Contained Author: Emma John Genre: Memoir Publisher: Cassell Publication Date: 6th May 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too. Emma John is in her 40s; … Continue reading Self-Contained by Emma John – Blog Tour Review
Coming Undone: A Memoir by Terri White – Book Review
Title: Coming Undone Author: Terri White Genre: Memoir Publisher: Canongate Publication Date: 15th April 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream - living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive … Continue reading Coming Undone: A Memoir by Terri White – Book Review
The Metal Heart by Caroline Lea – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Metal Heart Author: Caroline Lea Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Michael Joseph Publication Date: 29th April 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Orkney, 1940. Five hundred Italian prisoners-of-war arrive to fortify these remote and windswept islands. Resentful islanders are fearful of the enemy in their midst, but not orphaned twin sisters Dorothy and Constance. Already … Continue reading The Metal Heart by Caroline Lea – Blog Tour Review
The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Summer Job Author: Lizzy Dent Genre: Romance/Comedy Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 15th April 2021 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Have you ever imagined running away from your life? Well Birdy Finch didn't just imagine it. She did it. Which might've been an error. And the life she's run into? Her best friend, Heather's. The … Continue reading The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent – Blog Tour Review
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