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  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

  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

  Description In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in  New York Times  bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS  Morro Castle . New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There’s only one problem. It’s a lie. As soon as the  Morro Castle  leaves port, Catherine’s past returns with a vengeance and threatens her life. Joining forces with a charismatic jewel thief, Catherine must discover who wants her dead—and why. Elena Palacio is a dead woman. Or so everyone thinks. After a devastating betrayal left her penniless and on the run, Elena’s journey on the  Morro Castle  is her last hope. Steeped in secrecy and a burning desire for revenge, her return to Havana is a chance to right the wrong that has been done to her—and her prey is on the ship. As danger swirls aboard the  Morro Castle  and their fates intertwine, Elena and Cath

  Description Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy... With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love. But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this 'social rule'. The reverse never happens for a woman. Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn't a romantic comedy - it's real life. Would someone like him ever date someone like her? Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best. Review Not too keen on this one

  Description The new must-read cozy crime mystery from the bestselling author of  Dial A For Aunties   Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet). But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer. Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth. Knives Out  meets  Kim’s Convenience  for anyone who loves solving mysteries by Richard Osman and Janice Hallett, and watching  Death in Paradise  and  Midsomer Murders . R

  Description One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. In a letter to someone she loves above all others, Violeta recounts devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy, and a life shaped by some of the m

  Description Nosey Neighbours, Vigilantes or Community Assets? Read these charming tales and you decide! Thirteen stalwart and like-minded women meet weekly as a Sewing Circle to publicly portray their dedication to knitting, needlework and all things stitched. Nothing, could be further from the truth. Bessie the Law learns that there has been a serious outbreak of litter all over Pembroke town. She calls upon the Sewing Circle members to quickly expose the young culprits. How deep will they have to dig to find the real criminal who aims to make money out the town’s discarded rubbish? A member of a respected family in the town is accused of poisoning her sister. Bron the Books steps out of the library and engages the Sewing Circle to prove her friend’s innocence. Will they need to take a closer look at the so-called treasured family pets to uncover the real poisoner? Megan the Signals alerts the Sewing Circle to an auction fraud involving her grandmother’s antique chairs. They arrive