It’s the end of another month and despite the chaos of moving house and starting a new job, I’ve still managed to squeeze some reading in so please enjoy and happy Halloween!
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe
- Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Publisher: Picador, 2020
- Summary: Following on from Kawaguchi’s debut novel, this delightful sequel returns the reader to a little cafe in Tokyo that can transport customers back in time and explores how we’d go to see the ones we love.
- Rating: 4/5
The Other Mother (Audiobook)
- Author: Jen Brister
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Summary: Stand-up comedian, Jen Brister, recounts the trials and tribulations of raising twin boys as a same-sex couple, and being the ‘other’ mother.
- Rating: 3/5
After the Silence
- Author: Louise O’Neill
- Publisher: Riverrun, Quercus, 2020
- Summary: The infamous murder of the Crowley Girl has been talked about on Inisrun for the past years, but now a pair of Australians have arrived to make a documentary on the case and old wounds start to reopen.
- Rating: 5/5
The Silent Patient
- Author: Alex Michaelides
- Publisher: Orion, 2019
- Summary: Alicia was living what seemed to be a perfect life until the day she shot her husband 6 years ago and no one knows why. And she hasn’t spoken a word since.
- Rating: 3/5
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