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August 10, 2020
The Industrial Revolution brought tens of thousands of people from rural locations to the cities, where they were met with terrible, filthy living conditions and rare […]
August 2, 2020
I loved this book – as I loved Ms Robotham’s first, “The German Midwife”. She has a powerful voice and her first-person narration is beautiful. I […]
July 5, 2020
This was an incredible book. From the first paragraph I was glued to Eloïse’s side, riding shotgun with her through the twists and hard turns of […]
June 14, 2020
Fantastic book. I was sure I knew who was who, had a pretty good feeling about what was what and what would be … and I […]
June 9, 2020
“She could still tell herself it was a love story.” I knew who Bonnie & Clyde were, of course, and I’ve seen their final photo many […]
May 16, 2020
If I were to try and squeeze “The Swap” into one image in my mind, I would describe it as layers upon layers of neatly defined, […]
May 13, 2020
As author Kristin Harmel so neatly states, “one of my favourite things about writing about the war [WW2] is that I’m able to dig deep into […]
March 5, 2020
When I first read about the British Home Children, I actually didn’t believe it. It made no sense to me that something so important, so crucial […]
March 5, 2020
Below you will see bits and pieces of paper relating to the British Home Child scheme. I found the wording of most of these documents to […]