Week beginning 24 July 2024

Valerie Keogh The Mother Boldwood Books, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Valerie Keogh has provided readers with yet another good read, with some twists and, in my opinion more importantly, an intelligent consideration of the qualities that are believed to make the perfect husband.  It isContinue reading “Week beginning 24 July 2024”

Week beginning 12 June 2024

Paul Kahan Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Philadelphia is an immense narrative history, laying out a story that is engrossing, while so dense that initially it is difficult to decipher the themes that some readers will want to draw from theContinue reading “Week beginning 12 June 2024”

Week beginning 30 June 2021

Book reviews this week are fiction. Each depicts a woman under duress as the main character. In the first, The Good Samaritan by C.J. Parsons, Carrie has facial expression blindness and is on the spectrum. The second book, Keep Me Close by Jane Holland features Kate who works in a misogynist environment, has suffered theContinue reading “Week beginning 30 June 2021”