Penny Batchelor The Woman Next Door Embla Books, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The main character, Jen, has three dilemmas to deal with: her inability to become pregnant, despite two expensive IVF treatments; her and Gary’s financial position which makes saving for another IVF treatment difficult;Continue reading “Week beginning July 30th 2025”
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Week beginning 8 February 2023
Michele Moody-Adams Making Space for Justice Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope Columbia University Press, 2022. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This book is so enlightening, beginning with its title, through its chapter headings to the clear way in which Michele Moody-Adams explains the beginnings of herContinue reading “Week beginning 8 February 2023”
Week beginning 10 August 2022
Two fiction books are reviewed this week, Murder on Sea, by Jane Adams, and Why She Left, by Leah Mercer. Both were sent to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs for review. Jane Adams Murder On Sea Joffe Books 2021 (First published by Severn House Publishers 2007). This is Book 1 of the Rina MartinContinue reading “Week beginning 10 August 2022”
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