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Author: Amanda James Imagine getting a flyer to visit the Midnight Bookshop, which you first must find by looking for it at midnight, and only then can you also visit during the daytime. Imagine that the bookshop has magical powers. Then imagine that these flyers were distributed to people visiting food banks due to the…
Author: Carrie Anne Noble The Mermaid’s Sister is a story of two girls adopted by a good fairy who raised them. One washed ashore wearing shells around her head, and the other one was brought by a stork. Now, they are both teenagers. Maren is transforming into a mermaid. This brings a whole set of…
Author: Anne Tyler Back When We Were Grownups is a psychological novel exploring the inner world of the main character, Rebecca Davitch. Rebecca married Joe Davitch, an owner of a family business organizing parties, and she met him when she attended her friend’s engagement party. Joe was divorced with three little girls, whilst Rebecca was…
Author: Emilia Hart Weyward is a story of three women, one living in the 1960s, one in the 1940s, and one in the present day. The women are all related and going through similar issues, just at different times and social circumstances. I loved this social aspect, as well as the focus of the book…
Director: David Yarovesky I watched Locked and ended up wondering whether the film director had his car stolen or broken into so many times that he daydreamed about catching one of the vandals and torturing them. This is what the film story is about: a thief breaks into a car and finds himself locked up…
Director: Steven Soderbergh Black Bag is a spy thriller starring Michael Fassbender, from the Agency (read my blog about the series here), and Cate Blanchett. The pair portrays a married couple, George and Kathryn, who work as secret service agents and are after a mole, suspecting that the mole might be one of them. Thus,…
Author: Judy Leigh A Grand Old Time is another book by Judy Leigh, a UK author writing about senior people and their lives, which is so unusual and so, so, so beautiful. I absolutely love the messages Leigh sends with her stories. Life is not over until it’s over, and we can always change things…
Author: Judy Leigh The Old Girls’ Network is a book by Judy Leigh, the UK’s leading author about second chances and never being too late to change our lives. I previously read The Vintage Village Bake Off, The Golden Gals French Adventure, and The Golden Oldies’ Book Club. In this book, we meet Barbara, a…