Category: Family drama
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The Lies We Tell by Jane Corry – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB WHAT IF YOUR SON HAD MURDERED SOMEONE? Sarah always thought of herself and her husband, Tom, as good people. But that was before their son Freddy came home saying he’d done something terrible. Begging them not to tell the police. Soon Sarah and Tom must find out just how far they are willing…
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Fresh Water For Flowers by Valérie Perrin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien…
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Matilda Windsor is Coming Home by Anne Goodwin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister; approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return. As a high-society hostess renowned for her recitals, Matty’s burden weighs heavily upon her, but…
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The Best Things by Mel Giedroyc – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Warm, funny, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is the joyous debut novel from much-loved comedian, writer, actor and presenter Mel Giedroyc. It’s the story of a family who lose everything, only to find themselves, and each other, along the way. Sally and Frank Parker have it all. Then one day, because of…
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The Source by Sarah Sultoon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak……
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There’s Only One Danny Garvey by David F. Ross – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, and a glittering future beckoned. And yet, his early promise remained unfulfilled, and Danny is back home in the tiny village of Barshaw to manage the struggling junior team he once played for. What’s more, he’s hiding a secret…
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The Push by Ashley Audrain – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘The women in this family, we’re different . . .’ Blythe Connor doesn’t want history to repeat itself. Violet is her first child and she will give her daughter all the love she deserves. All the love that her own mother withheld. But firstborns are never easy. And Violet is demanding and fretful.…
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The Interpreter From Java by Alfred Birney – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Arto Nolan is the father’s name; his son Alan strives to overcome his loathing and comprehend the man who abused him and beat his mother. His father spent his evenings typing on his Remington. Later, Alan discovers his father had been working on his memoirs. He reads about Arto’s ruthless work as an…
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The Heatwave by Kate Riordan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Under the scorching French sun, a tense homecoming unearths a long-buried family secret in this deliciously propulsive beach read of a mother’s greatest fear brought to life. Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie Durand receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home…
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The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She would kill for her family Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in Jakarta in a wealthy, eminent, and sometimes deceitful family, they’ve relied on only each other for support. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella’s poisoning of…
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The Last To Know by Jo Furniss – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A family’s past pursues them like a shadow in this riveting and emotional novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of All the Little Children. American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There’s a lot…
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Everyone Dies Famous by Len Joy – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB As a tornado threatens their town, a stubborn old man who has lost his son teams up with a troubled young soldier to deliver a jukebox to the wealthy developer having an affair with the soldier’s wife. It’s July 2003 and the small town of Maple Springs, Missouri is suffering through a month-long…
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The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral Dorothy is conducting, she can’t help looking into the dead driver’s…
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The Man Behind Closed Doors by Maria Frankland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What could be so bad that a six-year-old stops talking? Domestic violence isn’t only perpetrated by men. Ask Paul Jackson who is on remand, accused of stabbing his wife, Michelle. As he reveals his reality behind their troubled marriage, it seems that only his six-year-old knows what really happened. But she’s trapped…
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Draca by Geoffrey Gudgion – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A war-damaged veteran on a mission to self- destruct… … a controlling father pushing him ever closer to the edge… … and a yachtswoman who gives all she has to hold him back. And between them all, there’s an old boat with dark secrets, and perhaps a mind of its own. MY…
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Like A House On Fire by Caroline Hulse – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Things Stella and Jack have had blazing rows about: – Misquoting Jurassic Park. – Leaving a Coke can on the side of the bath. – Fitting car seats for their hypothetical kids. In other news, they’re getting divorced. But first, Stella’s mum is throwing a murder mystery party and – with her dad…
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What’s Left Of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the “wakaresaseya” (literally “breaker-upper”), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an…
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The Carer by Deborah Moggach – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘Moggach is at the height of her powers with this book, which moves from a beautifully observed comedy of middle-class life to an immensely moving celebration of two imperfect marriages’ The Sunday Times ‘A cracking, crackling social comedy, with some brilliant observations about ageing and a devilish plot twist’ The Times.…
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The Girl In The White Dress by Paul Barrell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Girl in the White Dress is quite simply unforgettable and unputdownable. It is based on a true story . Every Family has secrets. Imagine discovering you were guilty of something you can’t remember. 1974 A family from London take a trip of a lifetime to the Caribbean aboard the cruise liner Oriana.…
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You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A beautiful and heart-breaking story set in South Africa where two mothers – a century apart – must fight for their sons, unaware their fates are inextricably linked. Orange Free State, 1901. At the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred can only watch as the…
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