Goodby Dearest Holly: Ten Years OnAmazon.com & Amazon.co.uk It is hard to recall a more beautiful and yet ultimately harrowing image than that of two ten-year old missing girls, in Manchester United T-Shirts, smiling to camera. This image became known worldwide, on 4th August 2002, twelve years ago today. The photo was of Holly Wells…
The Good FatherAmazon.com & Amazon.co.uk The Good Father, by Noah Hawley, is a gripping read which looks in-depth at the difficulties of fatherhood. It does this through the most dramatic of prisms when Daniel, a son of divorced parents, is accused of murder. Not just any murder, but the murder of a soon-to-be Presidential Candidate. Dr…
Empty CradlesAmazon.com & Amazon.co.uk Empty Cradles is a harrowing memoir which details the uncovering of an appalling part of British history: Child Migration Schemes. It has been many years since these events were brought to light by Margaret Humphreys. As you read this memoir, though, you understand that there is no end to the pain…
OverAmazon.com & Amazon.co.uk Over, by acclaimed author Margeret Forster, is a novel which portrays the after effects of the tragic loss of Miranda, an 18-year-old daughter, sister to Molly (her twin) and Finn – her brother. The contrasting ways the different family members deal with their loss is the heart of the novel. The family is…
The Snow ChildAmazon.com & Amazon.co.uk The opening of this novel finds Jack and Mabel in Alaska’s frontier country, in the 1920s, ten years after the loss of their stillborn baby. They have chosen to withdraw from family and friends as a means of coping with their searing loss and their ongoing childless state. Harsh weather…
“For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?” Faye Moskowitz