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The Secret Keeper – Kate Morton
On a summer day in 1961, 16 year old Laurel Nicholson is sitting in her treehouse at her family’s Suffolk cottage when a strange man comes up the driveway. His …
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
If ever there was a lesson in how to write an opening chapter of a book, this is it. Enduring Love, published in 1997, opens with a man in …
All The Birds, Singing – Evie Wyld
Jake Whyte is a sheep farmer on a remote unnamed British island. All The Birds, Singing, this year’s Miles Franklin award winner, opens with the discovery of a dead sheep. Something, …
