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Reviewed by Emma Crowley Paris, 1940. As Nazi soldiers march down the Champs Elysees, Noor’s heart is shattered. Her family is forced to fle...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley  ‘I will never forgive you! You had a choice. You could have listened to your mother, your brother, your father, bu...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley   When journalist Zoe Quint loses her husband and child in a tragic accident, she returns home to Guyana to heal. B...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley A family on a faraway island. Seas crawling with Japanese spies. A terrible war creeping ever closer… 1940 When Ros...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley She dreamed of finding a new life… Georgetown, Guyana 1970. Seven-year-old Rita is running wild in her ramshackle w...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley ‘You and me – we’re sisters, not enemies. We’ve got a real enemy at our door and we need to focus on that – toget...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathe...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley France 1944 and the streets are filled with swastikas. The story of a brave English girl behind enemy lines, a Ge...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley One woman. One impossible choice. Her daughter or her happiness … When Caroline meets Kamal the attraction is...

The next prizes generously donated by Kim at Bookouture are for paperback copies of The Secret Life of Winnie Cox by Sharon Maas and The Be...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley 1910, South America. A time of racial tension and poverty. A time where forbidden love must remain a secret. Wi...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Thirty years of family secrets. Three generations of women. One family heirloom that could change everything. W...