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Games and Rituals - Katherine Heiny

  Description The beloved author of  Standard Deviation  and  Early Morning Riser  brings us eleven glittering stories of love – friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts – in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime. The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny’s characters range from mischievous to tender. In  ‘Bridesmaid, Revisited,’  Marilee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid’s dress to work. In  ‘Twist and Shout,’  Ericka’s elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In  ‘Turn Back, Turn Back,’  a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor’s deception. And in  ‘561,’  Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband’s ex-wife move out of the family home. Katherine Heiny, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, runnin

The Lost Wife - Georgina Lees

  I've really enjoyed the readalong with @onemorechapter for this book. Description The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the bestselling author of  The Girl Upstairs You always underestimated me and I always overestimated you. Maybe that was our problem. A woman and a child arrive at a cottage in the Peak District in the dead of night. Alone. Desperate. Hunted. She knows they’re coming for her. It’s only a matter of time. Because her husband kept a secret from her. Until he was ready to destroy her. Now, it’s her turn. Review This soon became a real page turner. She's on the run from the bad people - what is going to happen if they catch up with her?  The book is told in the past and present. We learn in the past that Lea is getting married, but with each flashback to episodes before the wedding, it seems that the relationship she has with Harry is not the right one for marriage. One of the tasks that the @onemorechapter readalong set, was to predict the ending. I was