“It will get done. But the part that he leaves out is that he’ll have nothing to do with the doing.” Nora is a wife, mother, and lawyer who is fed up of her well-meaning but completely oblivious husband, Hayden, not helping her out more with childcare and housework. Nora’s lifechanges when the couple’s house hunting…
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Book Review: The Divines
“With the emotional power of Normal People and the reflective haze of The Girls, a magnetic novel that moves between present-day Los Angeles and a British boarding school in the 1990s, exploring the destructive relationships between teenage girls.” I was really excited about this book, especially due to the above description, but it was nothing like that. Ellie Eaton…
Book Review: You, Me and the Movies
You, Me and the Movies tells the story of a chance meeting at a hospital which reunites Arden with Mac, a university film lecturer she had an affair with thirty years ago. I appreciated reading a book with an older protagonist. The flashbacks to her young adult self at university worked really well. I enjoyed the…
Book Review: The Playing Card Killer
During withdrawal from anti-anxiety medication, Brian is plagued by dreams of women strangled to death and left with a playing card on their corpse. This premise hooked me right away as I’ve struggled with anxiety and medication withdrawals myself, and also love a good read about a serial killer! The book was slow (and quite…
Book Review: The Haunting of Henderson Close
Hannah lands her dream job reliving spooky tales as a tour guide for customers from all over the world at Edinburgh’s derelict Henderson Close. But Hannah starts to feel uneasy when she begins seeing mysterious figures and experiencing other unexplained phenomena. The Haunting of Henderson Close is an excellent ghost story that has a very strong…
Book Review: We Were Liars
When browsing books, I kept coming across We Were Liars; a young adult novel by E. Lockhart. The book description I kept seeing was always the same, and it never really said much. It did, however, still give you the basic formula for what it is about. And as it turns out, that was all you…