Blogs in March 2020

Making Waves 15th March 2020

In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt’s old house and beauty shop, she’s taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an...

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Cooking for Picasso 13th March 2020

“A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”–Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned...

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City of Spies 12th March 2020

In this intimate coming-of-age story set in the late 1970s, a young girl struggles to make sense of the chaos around her during Pakistan’s political upheaval, where the military revolts, the embassy burns, and a terrible secret tears her...

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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon 12th March 2020

Long-listed for the Baileys Women s Prize for Fiction, a lyrical novel set over the course of one morning in a small town in Pakistan Fatima Bhutto s stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of five young people trying...

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She Loves Me, He Loves Me Not 12th March 2020

Zoella didn’t know whether she was devastatingly happy or happily devastated. Zoella has been in love with Fardeen Malik, her best friend’s gorgeous older brother, since she was ten, but he’s always seen her as a ‘good girl’—not his...

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