The Malibu fire of 1983 started not in the dry hills but on the coastline. It began at 28150 Cliffside Drive on Saturday, August 27 – at the home of Nina Riva – during one of the most notorious parties in Los Angeles history. The annual party grew wildly out of control sometime around midnight.Continue reading “Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Fame and fortune, and everything going up in flames (Book Review)”
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The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, by Matson Taylor: a right good Yorkshire Fairy-tale (Book Review)
In this book we follow 16-year-old Evie as she finds herself at a crossroads in life, deciding what it is she wants to do next and what kind of Woman she wants to be. It’s 1962 and the world away from her father’s farm in East Yorkshire is calling to her. But Evie is aContinue reading “The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, by Matson Taylor: a right good Yorkshire Fairy-tale (Book Review)”
Book Review: The Stranding, by Kate Sawyer
‘Is it real, do you think? Is it the end of the world?’ ‘I don’t know.’ Ruth pushes herself to sit, looking out at the ocean before her. At the edge of the sea there is a pink light. ‘Look.’ Nik sits too and looks where her finger directs. The horizon appears to be glowing;Continue reading “Book Review: The Stranding, by Kate Sawyer”
Book Review: The Summer Job, by Lizzy Dent
…He pushes the door open, but instead of showing me in, he pops my suitcase just inside and pulls the door shut. ‘Couldn’t grow a Pinot in this wind-chill, eh?’ I stutter, then scramble for a quick reply. ‘Yes. Certainly it needs to be warmer. Except when there’s a frost. You also sometimes need aContinue reading “Book Review: The Summer Job, by Lizzy Dent”
Book Review: Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, by Bess Kalb
I could tell this girl she’d marry the love of her life in a year. She’d leave the tenement in Brooklyn and see Cairo and Tuscany and China and Switzerland and Greece and Gaza and Paris – Paris more times than she could count. She’d visit her mother’s village in Belarus (then part of Russia),Continue reading “Book Review: Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, by Bess Kalb”
Book Review: The Split, by Laura Kay
I had never been in my single bed with Emily. Her soft skin had never touched these sheets. I had never felt her hot breath on the back of my neck in the middle of the night within these four walls. I was transported to a land before Emily, to a place where she hadContinue reading “Book Review: The Split, by Laura Kay”
Book Review: The Shelf, by Helly Acton
Amy Wright is lying in bed, staring at herself in the mirror on the wall and counting her chins. Her long dark hair is curled up on top of her head like the chocolate doughnut she ate in secret yesterday and, if she squints, she could be a sumo wrestler. But Amy isn’t going toContinue reading “Book Review: The Shelf, by Helly Acton”
Book Review: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
The rains came hard in May that year – early, for the rainy season. Every time the rain came down, it sounded like thousands of gloved hands clapping. The daily downpour was a mixed blessing. With the rain, every man and woman felt an old, lingering, hard-to-dissolve guilt for past sins. The rain brought awkwardContinue reading “Book Review: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey”
Book Review: The Switch, by Beth O’Leary
Half an hour passed. That’s not an especially long time, really. You can’t watch a whole episode of Buffy in that time, or… bake a large potato. But you can totally destroy your career. I’ve been so afraid this was coming. For over a year now I’ve been fumbling my way through work, making absent-mindedContinue reading “Book Review: The Switch, by Beth O’Leary”
Book review: The Lido, by Libby Page
The sky stretches above her and for a moment she feels completely free. She rolls onto her back and tries backstroke so she can watch the birds crossing back and forth… She stops swimming for a moment and floats; for the first time in a long time she lets herself relax. The water holds her.Continue reading “Book review: The Lido, by Libby Page”
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