Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs)
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Roy and Celestial are happily(ish) married for a year and a half. Suddenly everything falls apart, how they handle the fallout will come to define who they are as individuals and as a couple. Author: Tayari Jones Title: An American Marriage Press: One World Rating: 8 This was truly beautiful. It’s part prose part epistolary …
Four siblings in New York visit a gypsy woman in her filthy apartment and learn the dates of their deaths. What they hear will change the courses of each of their lives whether they think they believe or not. None of them were prepared for the information they receive. Title: The Immortalists Author: Chloe Benjamin …
Myriam and Paul cannot believe their luck. They’ve found the perfect nanny, their children love her and they cannot imagine their lives without her. But, she will murder them before attempting to kill herself. Author: Leila Slimani Title: Lullaby Press: Faber and Faber Rating: 7 Set in Paris and laced with racial tensions and domestic …
If you don’t already know the premise of This is Going to Hurt then you’re living under an even bigger, darker, more impenetrable rock than I am (or you don’t live in the UK as I assume this has not crossed beyond the borders of our wonderful NHS). Simply it is one junior doctors account …
Jasper understands the world around him by colours and sounds, he cannot recognise faces and he is doesn’t understand why people talk in confusing double meanings and jokes. When Bee Larkham moves in across the street he LOVES her colour. But, no one else seems to agree. When she disappears no one will listen to …
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Edie has left school at fourteen because her father needs her help on the farm. The area is short on men since the end of the war and the depression is beginning to take hold. That summer Edie is missing her sister and finding herself when a tall, intelligent stranger Constance appears. She is kind …
Professor Andrew Griffiths has just made a grand mathematical discovery (far beyond anything I could even begin to understand) but he has also been replaced by an alien. An alien whose mission is to destroy the evidence and to ‘take out’ any other humans Andrew has told of his discovery. This ‘alien’ is confused and …
Mary is an expert on all things Hemingway and this biography takes a deep dive into his life. From his childhood to his death this book benefits from extensive lifting from Hemingway’s personal letters and published works as well as containing a variety of photographs of key people and places. These elements serve to illustrate …
NW leads the reader into the personal history of NW London through the lives of a colourful cast of characters. Their lives cross as neighbours, friends, lovers and enemies. Author: Zadie Smith Title: NW Press: Penguin Date of Publication: Date of Purchase: March 2019 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: Thank you library card Reading Time: …
Johanna lives in Wolverhampton with her once upon a time musician father, post-natal depressed mother and her four brothers. She has to get out. She has to reinvent herself and build herself into a girl she thinks she’d like to be. This journey takes her into music criticism, sex, love and more sex. But once …
Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs) 