‘Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger.‘ [ About Paper Heart ] For years she’s tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind – like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room. Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local…
‘Happiness begins when you stop chasing Mr Perfect and start choosing yourself’– Love, Lies & Sticky Toffee Pudding [ About Love, Lies & Sticky Toffee Pudding ] Successful lawyer, Charlotte Bloom, has been dumped for the 100th time. She invites her ex-boyfriend on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Barbados, to help her understand why. She knows…
‘A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland’– Fun and Games [ About Fun and Games ] Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no idea what he wants. It’s his last summer on the small island where he has grown up and he should be enjoying…
‘In my life, there are things that have happened to me, and things that I have done, that have proven to be moments that have a clear before and an after. One of those moments, perhaps in some ways the biggest, was the day that I met Richard Aveling for the first time.’– Bitter Sweet…
‘You do not say anything but want to get up and run out of the house. The sitting room is the same as it was twenty years ago, you sit in the same armchair, your mother sits in the same place, the windows look out on the same houses, yet everything is different, and it…
This year I made a very conscious decision to bring some older books with me on holidays to Portugal in July. These were books that had been languishing on my own personal tbr pile for quite some time. I did bring my Kindle as backup but, as it turned out, I didn’t need it. Instead…
‘That’s it, it’s all she gets. Fragments. Discarded scenes she rescues from the cutting-room floor that she replays, knows by heart’– The Good Mistress [ About The Good Mistress ] The affair is over – so what does she have to lose? Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only…
‘Mimi Truang did not yet know that her baby was gone. She sat back and closed her eyes, coffee in hand.’– My Other Heart [ About My Other Heart ] May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before…
‘Your child has been kidnapped.You’re live on television.’– Dead Line [ About Dead Line ] Going live in 10, 9, 8 . . .Today is a huge day for TV reporter Rose’s career. A live interview with one of the most powerful men in the country, on one of the nation’s biggest TV shows.7, 6,…
‘She gazed at the red line that ran along the circumference of the woman’s neck, the laceration open slightly like a small crevice in the snow. The woman’s face was paler than her short blonde hair, her blue eyes frozen in a stare as if caught in a photograph. They stared away and behind Darcy…