I thought this would be cheeky chit-lit,  easy, fun about a woman that ran a dating service.  BUT not so much.  It was about coping with rape and adoption and moving on.  Not letting yourself suffer because of other people’s mistakes.  Choosing to find happiness and keep it despite the past. 
Rape isn’t something I […]

“‘I thought I’d take him home.  Pour him a glass of malt and give him the best blow-job of his life.  Remind him of how good he had things.  But, ‘A blow-hob won’t fix everything, Lorraine,” he says.  “You think it will.  But not this time.”  So…’ She flicked as into the plant pot, ‘… […]

“On the back of the yellow paper, in the same pen, she has written her name.  Bronwen.  Dark and pure.  The o is as flawless as a star, as open as a window.  I look at it and something in me becomes seven again - I want to crawl into that letter, right into the […]

I’ve read this book before,  but I am running out of books here that I haven’t read.  I can envision shelves of books that I left in Washington,  all pack up and not yet read.  Hundreds of them.  I want them here!
I didn’t like the style of the book,  it was about someone writing a […]

“Not only could Alison not see, she was also extremely short.  The two might have been connected - kidney problems, I think - but I was already tall and it added to how awkward I felt around her.  I held her hand as we walked around the park, doing all the low-key slides in tandem.  […]