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Archives for May 2011
Review – The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown
REVIEWED BY DEBS CARR The Beauty Chorus is set in WW2 and covers one year in the lives of three women, as they move on from all that they know and join the ATA, flying planes to airfields across the UK to help keep the RAF supplied and able to fight. Fighter pilots nicknamed these women, The Beauty Chorus and it seems that although most pilots … [Read more...] about Review – The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown
Review – Catch Me A Catch by Sally Clements
REVIEW BY DEBS CARR We don't review ebooks here at Novelicious, but we're making one exception with this book as it's been shortlisted for the RNA Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers. Jack Miller has just sailed single-handedly across the Atlantic, but before he can get to his intended destination, he has a problem with his boat and ends up docking at … [Read more...] about Review – Catch Me A Catch by Sally Clements
An Ode To, Well…Boys! A Look at Lad Lit By Cesca Martin
BY CESCA MARTIN When you think of boys you don’t think of soppy love stories, you don’t think of fluffy endings. You don’t think they’re ever worried about whether we like them, whether life is all it’s cracked up to be, you don’t think they’re ever racked by insecurity – these are MEN - they build fire and own tool boxes and watch SPORT. They’re … [Read more...] about An Ode To, Well…Boys! A Look at Lad Lit By Cesca Martin
Review – The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell
REVIEWED BY JULES ABSALOM In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them. Lydia, … [Read more...] about Review – The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell