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Teaser Tuesday – February 7, 2023 #NewBook #QueenOfDirtIsland #DonalRyan @VikingBooksUK @penguinrandom #TeaserTuesday #TuesdayBookBlog

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Fictionophile

My Tuesday post where I’ll ‘tease‘ you with the cover, blurb, and first paragraph of one of the titles from my own TBR. This book is a title I received from Viking/Penguin Random House via Edelweiss and I’ll be reading … Continue reading →

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“The Locked-Away Life” by Drew Davies – Book Review

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Fictionophile

“Regret is a dish served cold, with plenty of leftovers, lasting you for decades”. Esther is eighty-two years old, has very limited mobility, and lives alone in a vine-covered manor house in the Midlands with her many regrets as company. … Continue reading →

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“Aunt Ivy’s Cottage” by Kristin Harper – Book Review

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Fictionophile

Zoey is thirty-eight years old and has recently lost her job as a librarian. Unwisely placed trust in her former boyfriend has resulted in some financial setbacks as well. With one of her elderly aunts now dead, she returns to … Continue reading →

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“The Love Story Of Missy Carmichael” by Beth Morrey – Book Review

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Fictionophile

“The outcome was always the same, alone in my barren old house, thinking of the people who’d gone.” Missy Carmichael – lives alone in a large house in Stoke Newington, London. The rooms echo her loneliness. Her husband is gone. … Continue reading →

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“Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You” by Annie Lyons – Book Review

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Fictionophile

Eudora Honeysett – 85 years old and increasingly troubled by the usual ailments, vulnerabilities, and indignities of old age. Eudora has never been married and still lives in the London house she grew up in – her only company is … Continue reading →

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