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Eat Pray Love

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Date Read: 15 April 2011 Official Summary In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind

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The Source Book Review

Title: The Source Author: Sarah Sultoon ISBN: 9781913193591 Publisher: Orenda Books Pages: 320 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours 1996 Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum

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Vanished Book Review

Title: Vanished Author: James Delargy ISBN: 9781471177569 Publisher:  SIMON & SCHUSTER Pages: 496 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours The Kane family, Lorcan, Naiyana and their young son are desperate to move their young family far away from the hustle and bustle of modern

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Duma Key

Author: Stephen King Date Read: 26 February 2011 Official Summary After a construction accident in which he loses his right arm and his divorce, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida to begin what his psychiatrist describes as a “geographic cure”. He rediscovers his love of painting and finds that he is good at it but

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Dolores Claiborne

Author: Stephen King Date Read: 14 May 2011 Official Summary Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline

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Tall Bones Book Review

Title: Tall Bones (Published in the US as Where The Truth Lies) Author: Anna Bailey ISBN: 9780857527394 Publisher: Transworld Publishers / Penguin Random House Pages: 340 Source: Review copy from Penguin Random House South Africa When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her

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Deception

Author: Jonathan Kellerman Date read: 15 March 2011 Official Summary Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a long ordeal of abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even

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