Fragments Of Life

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here are just some of the titles on my already-huge 2018 wish list. Added any must-read books to your wish list lately? Let me know in comments ----- Young Adult Fiction Clean by Juno Dawson || Release date: April 2018 A razor-sharp, adrenaline rush of a novel from award-winning author Juno Dawson, Clean is Gossip Girl meets Girl, Interrupted. 'I can feel it swimming through my veins like glitter ... it's liquid gold.' When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she's hit rock bottom. She's wrong. Rock bottom is when she's forced into an exclusive rehab facility. From there, the only way is up for Lexi and her fellow inmates, including the mysterious Brady. As she faces her demons, Lexi realises love is the most powerful drug of all ...  It's a dirty business getting clean ... Addiction and redemption, love and despair. Clean will have you hooked from the first page. ***** I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman || Release date: April ...

I didn't realise until now that almost all my favourite books from this year fall into the adult fiction category - with just one YA title making my list. I guess that's just how it goes sometimes! Here are five of my favourite reads from 2017, listed in order of preference. I'd also like to take this opportunity to wish all readers of the blog a very Merry Christmas! See you back here in the New Year! ***** A literary thriller with huge commercial appeal, Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall is a master class mystery of secrets and suspense that plays alongside a social commentary that is timely, clever and knowing.  Read my review of Before the Fall by Noah Hawley ***** Highly imaginative in a totally-twisted very off-the-wall sort of way,  Behind Her Eyes  is  the  must-read thriller of 2017. Read my review of Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Up next from Sarah Pinborough: Cross Her Heart releases May 2018. ***** If you’re anything like me you’ll be crossing you...

Product details: Publisher : Michael Joseph Hardcover, 336 pages Release date : July 13th 2017 Rating : 4½ out of 5. Ages : Adult. Source: Purchased. When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the sisters become divided by new tensions when two handsome neighbors drop by, Margot finds herself drawn into the life Audrey left behind. When the summer takes a deadly turn, the girls must unite behind an unthinkable choice or find themselves torn apart forever. Fifty years later, Jesse is desperate to move her family out of their London home, where signs of her widower husband’s previous wife are around every corner. Gorgeous Applecote Manor, nestled in the English countryside, seems the perfect solution. But Jesse finds herself increasingly isolated in their new sprawling ho...

Product details : Publisher : Del Rey. Paperback, 416 pages. Release date : May 4th 2017. Rating : 4 out of 5. Ages : Adult Source : Purchased. How far would you go to find THE ONE? One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner – the one you’re genetically made for. A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking – and deadlier – than others... A psychological thriller with a difference, this is a truly unique novel which is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Are you still searching for The One? From fairy tales of a sleeping princess who can be woken only by a kiss from her one true love to bedtime stories that inevitably end in the words ‘happily ever after,’ we learn from an early age of the importance of finding ‘The One,’ tha...