“Romantic novel which time slips from present to past. We get two romances for the price of one!
I liked the London setting and the feeling of place.
Our tuba playing daughter finds a Victorian diary…
Perhaps not my preferred reading genre but I wanted to read this in preparation of meeting the author
Score 5/10
Date read September 2011
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“Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining, touching and funny novel.
Instantly forgettable!
Our book group liked this too and we had a good debate, the group gave it an average of 6.2/10
Score 7/10
Date read September 2011
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“Fostered and lost, Brenton Brown meets his long lost mother, he has an incestual relationship with his half sister.
I enjoyed his raw style and the black London dialogue.
Met the author who is very interesting, this is almost a biog in parts and based on some truths (not him with incest though!). Alex got involved with some bad drug lords, jailed for something that happened during the Brixton Riots of 1980’s, discovered the joy of reading in prison, now has an OBE for services to literature.
I should read the follow up novel Brenton Brown sometime.
Score 7/10
Date read September 2011
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“At last the drought of good books is over.
Every now and then I find a gem and this is one of them. Not a run of the mill novel, no straight forward story.
All happens in Derbyshire where we meet three main characters who all miss the man they loved. One the wife, out of place? Two, the unrequited love? Three, the affected son.
Top stuff, highly recommended.
Score 8.5/10
Date read July 2011
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