It really does dazzle but punches you in the heart at the same time!
I actually cried so hard I couldn’t breathe whilst reading, in fact, listening to this book. I highly recommend the audible version, I...
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Sophie Anderson
Jan 11, 20222 min read
The Great Circle is a great bit of escapism
There are two parallel stories in this novel each with its own ferocious female protagonist and I definitely preferred the historic one...
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Sophie Anderson
Dec 7, 20212 min read
Was it the most fun I ever had?
That would be bold claim for any read, but this debut novel was definitely up there with one of the most enjoyable books this year. It...
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Sophie Anderson
Nov 30, 20213 min read
Top Ten Reads of 2021
What a great year for books. I don’t whether it is because there was a backlog that hadn’t been published in Covid but I feel as though...
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Sophie Anderson
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Still Life is like a taster menu - it keeps giving and transforming and giving some more..
I am going to be honest here - I did struggle with this book at the begininning. I don't why but I found myself reading without taking it...
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Sophie Anderson
Oct 15, 20212 min read
Magpie makes for compulsive reading
This is one of those un-put-downable books that had me reading whilst walking it was that good. It is also a book with so many twists and...
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Sophie Anderson
Sep 29, 20212 min read
Not paper thin but loaded with layer upon layer of secrets and lies.
I wasn't totally convinced by this book in the opening chapter. Despite the rich description of the ponds at Cape Cod and the detritus of...
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Sophie Anderson
Sep 16, 20212 min read
Beautiful story, beautiful characters, beautiful writing - beautiful world - you are here!
The reviews have been mixed about Rooney's latest novel. She has been criticised for churning out the same old story, the same old people...
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Sophie Anderson
Sep 15, 20211 min read
Witch trials, deadly storms and a village with no men - The Mercies has it all!
Set in 1617 in Vardo, a remote fishing village in northern Norway. A storm takes out the entire male population and the women are left to...
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Sophie Anderson
Jun 17, 20212 min read
Sorrow and Bliss is pure bliss!
Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly funny novel about mental health and marriage, not ordinarily hilarious subject matters but nothing is...
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Sophie Anderson
May 21, 20211 min read
Nothing But Blue Sky is beautiful but blue.
The book totally blew me away. It is written by a woman from the point of view of a man. I have never understood why a female author...
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Sophie Anderson
May 14, 20211 min read
Ishiguro has nailed it again..
I loved Klara and the Son! Ishiguro has somehow managed to write an utterly heartfelt story about love from the perspective of a robot....
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Sophie Anderson
May 11, 20212 min read
How the One-armed Sister Sweeps her House is as bewitching as it sounds!
I listened to this book on Audible and for all of one minute the quiet lilting Caribbean voice of the narrator was as meditative as the...
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Sophie Anderson
May 10, 20213 min read
Writing and homeschooling....
I was delighted and terrified when Bookouture offered me a two book deal back in September 2020. They wanted me to submit the second book...
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Sophie Anderson
May 7, 20214 min read
Favourite lockdown books
Something good had to come out of the miserable year that was 2020, and it did! So many wonderful books that many of us wouldn't have had...
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