“Waking in a hospital bed with her leg in a cast, the last six weeks of Jill’s life are a complete blank. . . All she knows is what she’s been told: while in Italy on a school trip she was involved in a fatal accident and had to be jetted home to receive intensive care. Care that involves a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident. . . wasn’t just an accident.” With Malice by Eileen Cook is a fast paced, high […]
An oldie but a goodie?
Without Prejudice is a story told in two halves; Flashbacks to the story of two children, one black and one white, who are thrown together in 1960s Chicago and a present day dilemma; Should I let this man into my privileged life? Late one night, Robert Danziger receives an unexpected call from a childhood friend, Duval Morgan. Duval has spent more than twenty years in an Illinois state penitentiary for the horrific rape and assault of a young nurse. Now he is finally out. The […]
young women with no voice, can you hear them yelling?
I seem to have chosen a number of titles that relate to young women with no voice, not physically, but after suffering some form of unimaginable trauma they choose not to speak. . . . Am I trying to tell myself something? Speak – a YA classic from 1999 details the first year at high school for Melinda. Our heroine is isolated from her peers, she doesn’t engage or communicate with her family or school community, but can’t hide her pain at being excluded. Her […]
Was the buzz justified?
Buzz? Justified? Yes! The Mothers is a stunning debut, it is beautifully crafted and is a wise and lingering piece of writing. The complexity of the characters and Ms Bennetts ability to allow them to unwind so slowly ( whilst in the middle of a fast paced storyline ) keeps the reader hooked. I wanted to know, not what was going to happen next, but how the characters felt about these events as they unfolded. The Mothers is the story of the constraints of a […]
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