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Laura’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Laura Elliot
Goodreads Author
Born
Dublin, Ireland
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October 2012
A Captivating Interview
The Interview is a book that delivers what its title promises. Like all good interviews it probes, analyses, prods, hints, reveals - and leaves the reader with enough information to encourage further exploration of its subject.In The Interview the subject is the talented artist and furniture designer Eileen Gray - but perish the thought that this is a factual pieces of reportage. Think, instead, o
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Guilty
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2017
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9 editions
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The Wife Before Me
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2018
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9 editions
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After the Wedding
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2022
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3 editions
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The Betrayal
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2015
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6 editions
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The Thorn Girl
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2019
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7 editions
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Stolen Child
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2010
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13 editions
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Fragile Lies
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2012
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10 editions
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The Prodigal Sister
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2009
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19 editions
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Sleep Sister
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2016
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4 editions
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The Silent House
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2020
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5 editions
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Laura’s Recent Updates
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From the Drawing Room to the Front Line of World War1 Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 April 2023 Orpen at War is a fascinating story about one man’s war and how he captured its brutality, humanity, pathos and courage with brush strokes on canvas ...more |
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Shining a Light on the Mystery of White Night The confident hand of Sharon Maas is obvious from the opening scenes of this amazing novel. Guyanese by birth, she is thoroughly immersed in the landscape where American preacher and cult leader, Jim Jon ...more |
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"The author created a great story as she blended fiction with this piece of history about The Jonestown Massacre in Guyana, a horrible event where more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple ended up dyeing in a mass-suicide under direction of Jim Jon"
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"This was such a gripping read. I have read a few books about cults but this was the first about the jonestown cult that I have read. I really enjoyed it and I'll be honest I didn't know much about it before reading this book and after researching it "
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"What an amazing and engrossing story! A Home for the Lost is set in 1978 in Guyana, a country in South America.
We are given alternating points of view from two black women, native Zoe who has returned from traveling the world and is working on rebui" Read more of this review » |
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“Revenge has a strange taste, not sweet, nor nasty, just unpalatable, like prison food.”
― Guilty
― Guilty
Polls
February 2019 ~ Member's Choice
It is now time to vote on our winning book for the February's Member's Choice Book Nomination.
Please note that book covers may not be as shown in the poll. Covers vary on different editions. Please go by the title and author, not the book cover.
Time to vote now for Feb Members Choice selection - this poll stays open until the end of the day on January 14th.
It is now time to vote on our winning book for the February's Member's Choice Book Nomination.
Please note that book covers may not be as shown in the poll. Covers vary on different editions. Please go by the title and author, not the book cover.
Time to vote now for Feb Members Choice selection - this poll stays open until the end of the day on January 14th.
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“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
― Reached
― Reached
