Category: Family drama
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Mine by Clare Empson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Who am I? Why am I here? Why did my mother give me away?’ On the surface, Luke and his girlfriend Hannah seem to have a perfect life. He’s an A&R man, she’s an arts correspondent and they are devoted to their new-born son Samuel. But beneath the gloss Luke has always felt […]
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Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Upon discovering her fifteen-year-old sister’s body sprawled in a pool of blood at the bottom of their apartment block, Nga-Yee vows to serve justice to the internet troll she blames for her sister’s suicide. Hiring an anti-establishment, maverick tech-savvy detective, Nga-Yee discovers the dark side of social media, the smokescreen of online privacy […]
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The Widow’s Mite by Allie Cresswell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Widow’s Mite Minnie Price married late in life. Now she is widowed. And starving. No one suspects this respectable church-goer can barely keep body and soul together. Why would they, while she resides in the magnificent home she shared with Peter? Her friends and neighbours are oblivious to her plight and her […]
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Paper Sparrows by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The summer of 2006, and nineteen-year-old Layla returns to Lebanon. When she arrives she finds that her troubled younger brother is missing. She heads to Beirut to search for him, but her quest is cut short when Beirut comes under fire. A new war has begun, and she is trapped in the middle […]
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The Alibi Girl by C J Skuse – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Joanne Haynes has a secret: that is not her real name. And there’s more. Her flat’s not hers. Her cats aren’t hers. Even her hair isn’t really hers. Nor is she any of the other women she pretends to be. Not the bestselling romance novelist who gets her morning snack from the doughnut […]
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Little White Lies by Philippa East – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She only looked away for a second… Anne White only looked away for a second, but that’s all it took to lose sight of her young daughter. But seven years later, Abigail is found. And as Anne struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, she begins to question how much Abigail remembers about […]
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The Hopes And Triumphs Of The Amir Sisters by Nadiya Hussain – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Mae has watched as her three older sisters have gone through the process of finding their place in the world and faced the challenges of parenthood head on. Now ready to spread her wings beyond her close-knit family, Mae is ready to take the world by storm. But a series of events will […]
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A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After an unexpected death, three generations of women take over the family funeral-home and PI businesses in the first book of a brilliant, page-turning and darkly funny new series. The Skelfs are a well-known Edinburgh family, proprietors of a long-established funeral-home business, and private investigators. When patriarch Jim dies, it’s left to his […]
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Blood Family by Graeme Hampton – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB All families have secrets… some are deadly. When D.I. Matthew Denning is called in to investigate a house fire in a North London street, he never anticipated the horrors that awaited him. As Denning and D.S. Molly Fisher search the wreckage, the bodies of the Galloway family – Brian and Ellie, son Simon, […]
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The Final Trail by A.A. Abbott – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Family feuds just got bloodier… A gripping thriller, and a great story of death, revenge and vodka. To save glamorous Kat White’s life, Ben Halloran killed his gangster father. Now his brother wants to even the score. The gripping Trail series of British crime thrillers reaches its dramatic conclusion in this compelling page […]
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Unprotected by Sophie Jonas-Hill – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She’s fighting to save everyone else, but will she have anything left to save herself? Witty, sharp and sarcastic tattoo artist Lydia’s life is imploding. Her long-term relationship has broken down after several miscarriages and she’s hiding from her hurt in loss and rage. After a big night out she wakes beside a […]
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Free Lunch by Rex Ogle – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Rex Ogle’s story of starting middle school on the free lunch programme is timely, heart-breaking and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle’s first term at High School. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore second-hand clothes and were short of school supplies and Rex was on his school’s […]
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Bad Seed by Jessica Eames – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A tragic death. A dark family secret. A past you can’t escape. How well do you really know those closest to you? Sarah’s world has descended into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to find out the truth of what happened, and make sure the guilty are brought to justice. […]
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XYZ by William Knight – Book Review. @_William_Knight #XYZ #LoveBooksTours
PUBLISHERS BLURB From a former Guardian and BBC writer, and author of The Donated, comes a hilarious story of mid-life crisis, family, technology, and coping with the modern workplace. Jack Cooper is a depressed, analogue throwback; a cynical, alcoholic Gen-Xer whose glory days are behind him. He’s unemployed, his marriage has broken down, he’s addicted […]
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The Last Wife by Nicola Marsh – Book Review. @NicolaMarsh @Bookouture #TheLastWife
PUBLISHERS BLURB Trusting his family was her first mistake. All Ria ever wanted was a family. Growing up alone in foster care, she imagined just how it would be. So when she fell in love with Grayson and had their daughter Shelley, she was determined to make his family love her too. She knew she’d […]
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Good Little Liars by Sarah Clutton – Book Review @sarahmclutton @bookouture #GoodLittleLiars
PUBLISHERS BLURB Your school friends know who you were before the flattering haircut, the great career, the loving family. They know secrets you’ve kept… It’s been twenty-five years since Emma graduated from the prestigious Denham House Girls’ School. She thinks she’s finally shaken the shadow of the awkward, neurotic girl she was at school. But […]
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Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall – Book Review. @eithneshortall @CorvusBooks @annecater #ThreeLittleTruths
PUBLISHERS BLURB A brilliant novel about our neighbours and the secrets we keep from one another, from the bestselling and award-winning author of Grace After Henry. One happy street. Three pretty houses. So many lies… Martha used to be a force of nature: calm, collected, and in charge. But since moving her husband and two daughters […]
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The Boxer Boys by Nick Rippington – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Some Family feuds just won’t go away… For 40 years the Dolans and the Marshalls have lived side by side on the same rundown housing estate in east London. While teens Gary Marshall and Arnie Dolan forge a close friendship, fighting constant battles to survive both on the streets and closer to home, […]
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One Year Later by Sanjida Kay – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Some secrets won’t stay buried… Since Amy’s daughter, Ruby-May, died in a terrible accident, her family have been beset by grief. One year later, the family decide to go on holiday to mend their wounds. An idyllic island in Italy seems the perfect place for them to heal and repair their relationships with […]
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