The Cowgirl
Reviewed onTeddy’s family farm holds a number of secrets, including some buried underground in an old farmhouse. When Teddy’s grandmother, Deirdre, engages an archaeologist to dig the house up, the secrets …
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Reviewed onJen and Steven meet at sixteen, marry at eighteen, and start a shared life. Initially their three children help glue a shaky relationship together but when the marriage finally disintegrates …
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Reviewed onLoretta Hill has assembled a hugely entertaining cast of characters for her latest novel, The Secret Vineyard: harried single mother Grace Middleton; her three rambunctious young sons, Charlie, Alfie and …
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Reviewed onTwo doctors arrive in Wittenoom, 30 years apart. Raymond Filigree comes to the Pilbara town in 1966, while Lou Fitzgerald comes to it in 1997, when it is a ghost …
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Reviewed onGalway detective Cormac Reilly is about to reopen a cold case that has haunted him for twenty years. The image of two neglected children in a decaying mansion, their emaciated …
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