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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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The giants of English Literature, especially Austen, Trollope and Jame
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Member Since
February 2013
In the company of women
Today I am delighted to welcome my friend Sara Sartagne to my blog. Sara is the author of several novels which cross genres such as...
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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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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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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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| Just as exciting as the first book in the series, events pick up twenty years on. Post her adventures and parting with Will, Lyra is a student struggling to come to terms with herself, a conflict illustrated by the fact that she and Pan are at logger ...more | |
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| Brilliant! Exciting! I listened to the audio version. Michael Sheen is extraordinary. Lots of backstory to His Dark Materials added extra interest. | |
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| Brilliant! Exciting! I listened to the audio version. Michael Sheen is extraordinary. Lots of backstory to His Dark Materials added extra interest. | |
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A beautiful book about a beautiful man. A stranger arrives in a southern American town and gently, diffidently, begins to make people’s lives better. Theo is clearly wealthy, but it isn’t just his money that impacts a diverse and unrelated group of r ...more |
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| Chevalier’s books are always so hyped. I expected great things but was disappointed. Not so much in the writing, the setting or the characters - these were all great - but in the very odd and, to me, purposeless time warp employed to carry the story ...more | |
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| This was such a clever and well-written book. The descriptive prose was wonderful; who knew that silence had such texture, colour and resonance? I felt so sorry for Henry - an appealing and sympathetic character, hapless and missive, preyed upon by o ...more | |
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| Loved this story. Clever, exciting and a new twist on the dual timeline I felt fully drawn in my the story. | |
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| This was an incredibly layered and complex read, its convolutions added to by the unreliability of childhood memory. The book is structured around cards and fortune telling, which also added a nebulous element. I read on my kindle, so the maps and co ...more | |
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| There are some characters that you meet in books that you wish would step out of the page and into your life. Christine Maccabee is one of these. We have some things in common. I had a secure childhood, but I knew what it was to be lonely and invent ...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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