I was sent a copy of Freedom’s Child by Jax Miller by Mumsnet Book Club for review. This is Jax Miller’s debut novel, and it came with a personal “Dear Reader” note which started “Dear Reader, I don’t write from the heart but rather from the guts…” She wasn’t lying! Read more…
I was sent a copy of The Good Girl by Fiona Neill by Mumsnet Book Club for review. This is the story of the Field family, who have just moved to Norfolk from London. Ailsa, the mother, is the new headmistress at the school her two teenage children attend. Read more…
I was sent a copy of The Bones of You by Debbie Howells by Mumsnet Book Club for review. This is Debbie Howells’ debut novel; it’s about a small village where an 18 year old girl goes missing, and is soon found dead. It’s written from the point of view of Kate, Read more…
S and I were sent a copy of Creaturepedia for review by Mumsnet Book Club. When it first arrived I thought it was some sort of illustrated reference book for older children, and perhaps something we would put away until S was a little older… I was wrong! This book Read more…
Mumsnet sent me a copy of Villa America for review. Villa America is a work of fiction based on historical fact; all of the characters bar one existed in real life, and the majority of events described in the book really happened. The book is set at the beginning of Read more…
I was really excited to be sent a copy of The Ice Twins by Mumsnet for review, not least because it came with a cute little bag containing a tealight candle, a Kit Kat and a camomile tea bag! The Moorcrofts were a happy, middle class couple with beautiful, happy, Read more…
I was very lucky to be sent a copy of The Book of You by Claire Kendal to review by Mumsnet. I had never heard of the author before, and had no idea what the book was about. I started off thinking “right, better get started on this so that I Read more…
I was really pleased to be chosen by Mumsnet Book Club to review The One Plus One by Jojo Moyes. When it arrived in the post, and I realised how big it was, my heart sank a little. I’d just finished reading a massive brick of a book that had Read more…
I was sent a copy of The Hive by Gill Hornby by Mumsnet for review. It’s about the joys of playground politics at a fictional primary school in the Home Counties. The novel is written from several different perspectives, all of whom are women whose children go to the school. Read more…
I rarely read fiction; I’ve always held it to an impossibly high standard, and if I’m not gripped within the first few pages, I often return the book to a shelf, and never bother with it again. In my teens, I read The Bell Jar and Salinger, and they sort of Read more…