‘It starts with the panic, the sound of sharp knocking. The pounding on Annelise’s door, a crash in her skull, jolting her from sleep.They’re coming.’– Send For Me [ About the Book ] Germany 1930s. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents’ popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the…
‘Armed with one broken heart and a (borrowed) sausage dog, Rachel is on a mission to find out why her baby was born sleeping.Because Everything Happens for a Reason…Doesn’t it?’ [ About the Book ] When Rachel’s baby is stillborn, she becomes obsessed with the idea that saving a stranger’s life months earlier is to…
‘The story of several families who live on the same suburban street, all secretly struggling with the anxieties of the modern world whilst trying to maintain the illusion that everything is fine.’– Everyone Is Still Alive [ About the Book ] It is summer on Magnolia Road when Juliet moves into her late mother’s house…
‘Four women in a close-knit community are thrust into the harsh spotlight when a young child goes missing’– All Her Fault [ About the Book ] ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school.…
‘Save her son . . . or save herself?‘– The Lies We Tell I am delighted to be launching the blog tour today for The Lies We Tell by Jane Corry. Just published June 24th with Penguin it is described as ‘a twisty, thought-provoking drama with a nail-biting dilemma at it’s heart.’ It is a…
‘How much longer will I go on believing you are still coming home?’– Will this house last forever? [ About the Book ] When Xanthi Barker’s father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life.…
Observer‘s ‘Ten Debut Novelists’ of 2021′Harper’s Bazaar‘s ‘Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer’– MOTH [ About the Book ] Delhi, 1946Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter – precocious, headstrong Alma– is soon to be married: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning…
‘He was troubled. It came off him like a smell. He was running away from something or someone.She’d heard Dublin in his accent. Not the colourful Dublin of Moore Street, less earthy than that, but his roots were definitely in the capital. Coming here put plenty of distance, almost four hundred kilometres, between him and…