Blogs in July 2020

Way Beyond A Lie 25th July 2020

‘I know exactly what you’ve been going through.’ Ross McKinlay’s fairly ordinary life turns a somersault when his Italian wife, Carla, disappears from inside an Edinburgh supermarket. As the reasons for her disappearance emerge, his moods intensify from anxiety...

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After Leaving the Village 24th July 2020

Two women. Two villages. Different destinies. Odeta’s life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery, running her father’s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. One day an enigmatic stranger from Tirana walks into the shop and promises...

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Façade 24th July 2020

Façade by Helen Matthews A drowned child, estranged sisters, a once-perfect house Silence echoes louder than truth When seventeen-year-old Rachel’s baby brother drowns and her older sister, Imogen, escapes to live abroad with Simon, her musician boyfriend, Rachel must...

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The Less Dead 21st July 2020

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer...

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The Exiles 21st July 2020

Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is...

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