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Review: The Aunts’ House, by Elizabeth Stead

April 7, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer 1 Comment

The Aunts House by Elizabeth Stead

The Aunts’ House is a delightful coming of age story set in 1942 Sydney. Author Elizabeth Stead has conjured an ensemble of quirky, lovable characters that would make Charles Dickens envious. Angel Martin is an orphaned child foisted upon long-suffering boarding house mistress, Missus Potts. Enraged upon discovering Angel hasn’t brought the inheritance she’d counted on […]

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The Choice: An Auschwitz memoir of survival, hope and healing

August 24, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer

The Choice by Edith Eger

The Choice is the memoir of Edith Edger, an Auschwitz survivor. In 1944 she was arrested with her family as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz. One year later she was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. In this incredible book she tells her own story of living with trauma and how she […]

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Book review: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

May 5, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I’d heard so many good things about The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. My mum read it the week before I did and rushed over to tell me all the best anecdotes from the first 50 pages or so. Now that I’ve finished it, I have an overwhelming desire to tell you all the […]

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Finding beauty in the horror of war – The Lace Weaver – Book review

April 6, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 1 Comment

The Lace Weaver by Lauren Chater

I finished reading this book while sitting on a commuter train trying to hide my tears from fellow passengers. To create such beauty out of such horror is a rare skill, and one that debut author, Lauren Chater, possesses in spades. At its heart, The Lace Weaver is a story about preserving the culture of […]

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Book review: The Paris Seamstress, by Natasha Lester

March 26, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester

Natasha Lester writes romance the way it should be written – fierce and passionate with strong men and, most importantly, strong and independent women. Her third historical fiction novel, The Paris Seamstress, is the story of Estella Bisette – forced to flee France in 1940 with little more than her sewing machine and a dream of […]

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