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The Electrical Venus
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At some time in the 18th century (annoyingly, the book gives no more specific clue), Mim is a mixed-race teenage girl in a ...Read Review
The Red Ribbon
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Set during the Holocaust, the book begins with Ellie, a teenager going for a job as a pattern cutter in a small dress-making ...Read Review
Margot and Me
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Fifteen-year-old Fliss and her mother, who is recovering from chemotherapy, move to Wales to live with Margot, Fliss’s grandmother. Fliss finds her ...Read Review
V for Violet
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
South London, 1961, and 16-year-old Violet has left school but is stuck in her dad’s fish and chip shop, missing out on the ...Read Review
Liberty’s Fire
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Following on from Lydia Syson’s award-winning debut, A World Between Us, and her second novel, That Burning Summer, comes another story of ...Read Review
The Madness
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Somerset, 1868. The sea-side town of Clevedon is famous for its sea-cures. Visitors flock there to use the bathing-machines and be ‘dipped’ in the ...Read Review
Diamonds and Deceit
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London, 1913. In this, the second of the Somerton novels, we follow the fortunes of Lady Rose, once a housemaid, and now the acknowledged ...Read Review
That Burning Summer
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In the summer of 1940, a young Polish airman serving with an RAF squadron crash lands on Romney Marsh. Broken by his experiences as ...Read Review
Secrets and Sapphires
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Overall, this is an enjoyable story with an engaging and likeable heroine and lots of intrigue. Set in 1912, it follows Lady Ada Averley ...Read Review
The Quietness
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Queenie is desperate to escape the harsh reality of daily survival in her poverty-stricken home. Love exists there but is dulled by the ...Read Review
