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Book Review: Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd

Book #136 of 2018: Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd A heartbreaking little novel about a troubled girl who runs away from her foster home, donning a wig and creating a brave new identity for herself as she attempts to travel across England and find her mother in Ireland. With her past trauma gradually …

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Book Review: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Book #92 of 2017: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness A powerful novel of grief and guilt, where a boy struggling to come to terms with his mother’s cancer must also face down the primeval creature that has crawled out of his dreams with harsh truths of its own. There’s a reading of this story …

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