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THE RAPTURES by Jan Carson (Doubleday £14.99, 336 pp)

THE RAPTURES by Jan Carson (Doubleday £14.99, 336 pp)

THE RAPTURES

by Jan Carson (Doubleday £14.99, 336 pp)

Ten kids die, one after the opposite, of a mysterious sickness in a rural Irish city.

What’s killing them? Who will it come for subsequent? And why is Hannah the one survivor?

It’s like a darker Pied Piper as we comply with the completely different households by means of the cycle of worry, loss and grief. 

However I felt sorriest for Hannah’s poor ex-classmates, who return to say demise is sort of a badly run youth membership. 

Fantastically written and brilliantly authentic, this novel’s mixture of extraordinary lives and extraordinary occasions jogged my memory of Jon McGregor’s nice Reservoir 13.

OTHER PARENTS by Sarah Stovell (HQ £14.99, 400 pp)

OTHER PARENTS by Sarah Stovell (HQ £14.99, 400 pp)

OTHER PARENTS

by Sarah Stovell (HQ £14.99, 400 pp)

Rachel Saunders has all of it: huge job, pots of cash, fab home and intelligent youngsters. However there’s bother behind the shiny facade.

Rachel divorced her husband to stay with a girl, and her teenage daughter is confused and offended.

She’s sleeping with plenty of boys, one among whom isn’t very good. The implications are scandalous and sensational.

Caught up within the catastrophe are headmistress Jo and struggling mom Laura, a girl with a troublesome secret.

Deft, wry and perceptive, this drama targets class and trendy parenting.

LITTLE WING by Freya North (Welbeck £12.99, 400 pp)

LITTLE WING by Freya North (Welbeck £12.99, 400 pp)

LITTLE WING

by Freya North (Welbeck £12.99, 400 pp)

Essex cafe supervisor Nell finds that her mom is just not who Nell thinks she is.

It seems that her actual mum, as a pregnant Sixties schoolgirl, was banished to the distant Isle of Harris to present beginning to her daughter.

In the meantime, in London, photographer Dougie has misplaced his approach. His involved father brings him house to Harris simply as Nell arrives in quest of her roots.

The island descriptions are beautiful and the entire novel is full of pleasure and love.

This heart-filled weepie will heat your cockles, restore your mojo and make you wish to go to the Hebrides proper now.

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