How to Save Life by Eva Carter @rosiewilsreads @panmacmillan @mantlebooks @KateWritesBooks #HowtoSaveALife #HTSALReadalong #BookBlogger #TheClqrt #BookReview #ContemporaryFiction

Mantle 27th May 2021 Book Description Sometimes saving a life is only the start of the story. Its nearly midnight on the eve of the millennium when eighteen-year-old Joel's heart stops. A school friend, Kerry, performs CPR while her best friend Tim freezes, unable to help. After twenty exhausting minutes, Joel's heart finally re-starts. That…

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley @cpooleywriter @wordadventures @TransworldBooks @thatvickypalmer #TheAuthenticityProject #ClarePooley #BookReview #TheClqrt #BookBlog

Transworld Books 2020 Book Description SIX STRANGERS WITH ONE THING IN COMMON: THEIR LIVES AREN'T ALWYAS WHAT THEY MAKE THEM OUT TO BE. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY TOLD THE TRUTH INSTEAD? Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he begins The Authenticity Project - a small green notebook containing…

33 Women by Isabel Ashdown @IsabelAshdown @AlainnaGeorgiou @TrapezeBooks @Orionbooks #33Women #IsabelAshdown #Blogtour #BookReview #BookBlogger #TheClqrt

26th November 2020 Orion Books Book Description 33 women...one big secret When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited. But someone is missing... their middle sister, Vanessa, murdered years ago and the victim of an unsolved case. The discovery of another body in similar…

My One True North by Milly Johnson @millyjohnson @TeamBATC @BookMinxSJV @ed_pr @megan_denholm #TheClqrt #MyOneTrueNorth #MillyJohnson #BookReview #BookBlogger

Simon & Schuster July 2020 Book Description Laura and Pete should never have met. But fate has pushed them together for a reason. Six months ago, on the same night, Laurie and Pete both lost their partners. Struggling to manage the grief, they join the same counselling group - and meet each other. From their…

Non Fiction November #nonfictionnovember #nonfictionrecommendations #theClqrt #readingrecommendations #bookrecommendations

I have enjoyed so much great non fiction this year so I thought I would helpfully (I hope) link these in one post to celebrate the start of November - when we all make a special effort to read some non fiction - don't we? Here is my 2020 non fiction reads and recommendations. Let…

The Governess by Wendy Holden @Wendy_Holden @welbeckpublish #Theclqrt #TheGoverness #HistoricalFiction #BookReview #BookBlog

Welbeck Publishing August 2020 Book Description In 1933 a progressive young teacher, Marion Crawford, becomes governess to little Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret. Inside the castles and palaces she finds a family frozen in time. Determined to give her pupils a fun and normal childhood, she takes the princesses on buses, swimming at public…

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane @Mary_Beth_Keane @MichaelJBooks @GabyYoung #AskAgainYes #BookReview #theclqrt #BookRecommendation

Michael Joseph Books August 2019 Book Description Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big lawned, suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope - cold, elegant, unstable - wants to be left alone. It's up…

Intimations – Six Essays by Zadie Smith @PenguinUKBooks @BloggersHut #NonFiction #IntimationsSixEssays #ZadieSmith #BookReview #BloggersHutRT #theclqrt #bookblogger

Penguin Books 28th July 2020 Book Description Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas, feelings and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality - or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In…

The Foundling by Stacey Halls @stacey_halls @bonnierbooks_uk @bloggershut #20BooksofSummer #theClqrt #BookReview #bloggershutrt #HistoricalFiction #RecommendedReading

Manilla Press February 2020 Book Description Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything... London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is…

Long Bright River by Liz Moore @LizMooreBooks @HutchinsonBooks #LongBrightRiver #CrimeFiction #BookReview

Hutchinson Books January 2020 Book Description The first time I found my sister dead, she was sixteen. Mickey Fitzpatrick has been patrolling the 24th District for years.  She knows most of the working women by name.  She knows what desperation looks like and what people will do when they need a fix.  She's become used…