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  1. Reviews of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

    By Sarah on May 7th, 2013

    Lesley's Review:   Sarah's Review:   Please add your comments/reviews of this title below:

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  2. Reviews of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

    By Sarah on April 7th, 2013

    Lesley's Review:   Sarah's Review: Amy, Nick's wife goes missing. He is the main suspect. How well do you ever really know someone though?  To be honest a quarter of the way through this book I was struggling to keep going. Amy's diary entries were …

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  3. Reviews of The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared

    By Sarah on February 26th, 2013

    Lesley's Review I don't suppose a book with this title could be anything but unusual! I really enjoyed following Allan as he made his spontaneous but doddery escape from the old people's home and from his hundred birthday party. At the bus station …

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  4. Reviews of A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen

    By Sarah on February 4th, 2013

    Lesley's Review Sarah's Review This book has received fabulous reviews and is a heart warming story. However, that aside I found the first half of the book very slow and repetitive. It spent too much time describing the geography of the journey Bob …

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  5. Reviews of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

    By Sarah on January 3rd, 2013

    Read the reviews of this months' book: Lesley's Review The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – What a different book! The thought that someone can actually taste the emotions of the person who made the food is intriguing and I was really looking …

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  6. Reviews of Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body

    By Sarah on January 1st, 2013

    Read the reviews of this month's book   Lesley's Review:     Sarah's Review: I have a feeling that Agatha Raisin is pure marmite. I know some friends who have read the books and really don't like the character of Agatha, even if they like the …

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  7. Reviews of The Great Gatsby

    By Sarah on November 30th, 2012

    Reviews of The Great Gatsby

    Read the reviews of this month's book: Lesley's Review: When I picked this book up I knew the title but barely remembered the film so it was another voyage of discovery. I wasn't sure through the first few pages whether I would like the story which …

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  8. Reviews of Death comes to Pemberley

    By Sarah on September 24th, 2012

    Read the reviews of this month's book: Lesley's Review Sarah's Review I didn't think that I would but I loved this book. I found you had to take it on its own merits and not compare it to 'Pride and Prejudice'. Curled up on my sofa at home it …

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  9. Reviews of 22 Britannia Road

    By Sarah on September 1st, 2012

    Read the reviews of this months book: Lesley's Review I find it fascinating that when Amanda Hodgkinson wrote this she hadn’t visited Britannia Road in Ipswich!  I am only half way through the story and I am totally gripped.  Janusz has rented …

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  10. Reviews of your Pick a Dickens

    By Sarah on September 1st, 2012

    Lesley's Review Sarah's Review: I read Great Expectations in the end in anticipation of the new film out soon with Helen Bonham-Carter as Miss Havisham. Although the very fact that Helen is playing Miss Havisham makes me feel suddenly rather …

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