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Allie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Allie Cresswell
Goodreads Author
Born
in Stockport, The United Kingdom
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Influences
The giants of English Literature, especially Austen, Trollope and Jame
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Member Since
February 2013
A Moment in Time
Years ago I sat on a bus in front of two women who were discussing the colour of the mother-of-the-bride outfit one of them had bought the week before. ‘What colour is it?’ ‘Hard to say. Orangey.’ ‘Like a tangerine?’ ‘Oh no! Not so vivid. When I say orangey, really it’s more orangey-pink.’ ‘Orange blossom, then? That’ll be nice for a spring wedding.’ ‘N ... no, not really. That’s really pale, isn’
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Tall Chimneys
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The Cottage on Winter Moss
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The Hoarder's Widow (Widows, #1)
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Relative Strangers: A British Family Story
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2012
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10 editions
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The House in the Hollow
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Mrs Bates of Highbury
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2018
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3 editions
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The Widow's Mite (Widows, #2)
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The Lady in the Veil
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2021
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2 editions
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The Other Miss Bates (Highbury, #2)
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Dear Jane (Highbury #3)
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Allie’s Recent Updates
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| Four people in their thirties navigate life, friendship, success, failure and love. Alice and Eileen have known each other since college. Simon is Eileen's childhood hero and teenage crush. Through Eileen, he and Alice become friends. Felix is an out ...more | |
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| Disappointing. A flea on the back of Achilles and other recent retellings of the Trojan story. I found the story telling drab and the women’s stories so whiny and predictable. | |
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| A delightful read, with a really solid late Victorian or early Edwardian setting in a northern mill town. Such genuinely kind characters - I suspected most of them of dark purposes - but it was refreshing to find true friendship and altruism as Robin ...more | |
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| Despite really wanting to enjoy this book, and especially the Yorkshire setting, I found I just couldn't get into it. Magical realism is not really my genre, and so I think my response is much ore about me than it is about this book. ...more | |
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Allie Cresswell
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In Silence And Shadows (White Rose Witches Book 1)
by Georgie St-Claire (Goodreads Author)
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| This is a beautifully written story of music and self-discovery,. It is cleverly told from the point of view of a boy who doesn't understand everything that he sees and of his older self, who, facing a health crisis, finds himself reviewing the paths ...more | |
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| Penelope Lively is one of those writers who is not ashamed to use fiction as a way of discovering and illustrating the mechanics of humanity, of relationships and of life. Here, the title of the book refers to the intricate, beautiful but also deadly ...more | |
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A poignant story of two boys whose close friendship is complicated when one of them falls in love with a girl. For a short time it seems that three is not a crowd … until it is, and the two drift apart. Ellis’ story is simple and painted in quiet ton ...more |
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I'm an increasingly ardent fan of Kristin Hannah's books. She writes about the big things that matter, especially events in history and specifically how they matter to women. This book concerns two French sisters estranged in childhood and and then fo ...more |
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“I had never had any control over my life; choice was not a luxury I had ever enjoyed.”
― Tall Chimneys
― Tall Chimneys
“The family is joined by elastic,’ she mused. ‘The closer we get to some, the more we must stretch away from others.”
― Relative Strangers: A British Family Story
― Relative Strangers: A British Family Story
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Review Group: * Group 99. General. Mod: Hock | 154 | 89 | May 07, 2016 12:52PM | |
| Review Group: * Group 93 General. Mod Emma | 129 | 84 | May 10, 2016 07:44AM | |
| Review Group: * Group 100C Literary Fiction. Mod: Hock | 145 | 80 | Jun 25, 2016 02:55PM | |
| Review Group: * Group 125 Novella.Mod Neil. | 140 | 85 | Mar 28, 2017 03:14PM | |
| Review Group: * Group 147. novella. Mod Kathy | 163 | 114 | Sep 19, 2017 07:26AM | |
| Austenesque Lover...: Promotion Place- July | 115 | 41 | Aug 03, 2019 09:32AM | |
| Austenesque Lover...: Dusty Shelf Book Scavenger Hunt - March | 46 | 43 | Apr 29, 2020 02:06PM | |
| Austenesque Lover...: Promotion Place - April | 124 | 40 | May 04, 2020 02:51PM | |
| Austen Lovers TBR...: April Group Read - Six Degrees of Separation | 195 | 51 | May 31, 2021 08:15AM |
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