26a – buy this book
Rating
4 stars – a beautifully written book
Description
A novel of twoness, oneness, growing-up and growing apart
Why did you read this book?
I can’t remember how I came across this book to be honest – it was sometime last year that I added [...]

Nineteen Minutes – Buy this book
Rating
5 stars – Picoult at her best
Description – from jodipicoult.com
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that [...]

A Quiet Belief in Angels – Buy this book
Rating
3 stars – a fantastic start but a disappointing middle
Description – from lovereading.co.uk
Joseph Vaughan’s life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted [...]

To Kill a Mockingbird – Buy this book
Rating
5 stars – everyone needs to read this book
Description – from Amazon

Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the [...]