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February 15, 2021 April 19, 2022 Jill's Book Cafe
Published this week – my fiction picks to 21st February, 2021
A bumper week this week, so plenty to choose from. There are some crackers so get the kettle on and limber up!
The index is a guide as to what format the title is being released in. In some cases the title might already have been published in a different format. For those readers interested in audio editions I've indicated availability with the addition of a red button after the purchasing links – this makes it a bit easier to scan through and pick them up. The categories are intended to give you an indication of price and/or suitability depending on your preferred reading format. I have not complicated matters further by attempting to throw genres into the mix.
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eBook releases
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
EVERYONE'S IN DANGER. ANYONE COULD BE NEXT.
An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement, she has no choice but to accept.
Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, makes her nervous – as does her brother, Isaac.
And when they wake the following morning to discover his fiancée Laure has vanished without a trace, Elin's unease grows. With the storm cutting off access to and from the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.
But no-one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they're all in . . .
Hive Books
The Lost Manuscript by Cathy Bonidan
Sometimes a book has the power to change your life…
When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown author. But not before she reads the story and falls in love with it. The response, which she receives a few days later, astonishes her…
Not only does the author write back, but he confesses that he lost the manuscript 30 years prior on a flight to Montreal. And then he reveals something even more shocking—that he was not the author of the second half of the book.
Anne-Lise can't rest until she discovers who this second mystery author is, and in doing so tracks down every person who has held this manuscript in their hands. Through the letters exchanged by the people whose lives the manuscript has touched, she discovers long-lost love stories and intimate secrets. Romances blossom and new friends are made. Everyone's lives are made better by this book—and isn't that the point of reading? And finally, with a plot twist you don't see coming, she uncovers the astonishing identity of the author who finished the story.
Allegation by R G Adams
An evil monster exposed?
Or an innocent father condemned?
A scandal will shake a small community to its very foundations.
Sandbeach, South Wales.
Two women have come forward to make historical sexual allegations against a pillar of the local community, Matthew Cooper.
The case lands on the desk of inexperienced Social Worker, Kit Goddard, who must remove Cooper from his home and family while the investigation is carried out. Although intrepid and intuitive, she is ill-prepared for such a high-profile case.
Kit finds herself navigating a local minefield of connections and class, reputations and rumour. Unsure whether her interference is a heroic intervention or a hurtful intrusion, she knows one thing: it will have an impact. The question is whether this impact will be to expose a lie, or destroy an innocent life…
Hardback & eBook releases
A Wedding in the Country by Katie Fforde
Lizzy has just arrived in London and is determined to make the best of her new life.
Her mother may be keen that she should meet a Suitable Man and have a nice wedding in the country, but Lizzy is determined to have some fun first.
It is 1963 and London is beginning to swing as Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a new dress with a fashionably short hemline, and moves to a grand but rundown house in Belgravia with two of her best friends.
Soon Lizzie's life is so exciting that she has forgotten all about her mother's marriage plans for her.
All she can think about is that the young man she is falling in love with appears to be engaged to someone else…
What Will Burn by James Oswald
The charred remains of an elderly woman are discovered in a burned-out game-keepers cottage, hidden away in woodland to the west of Edinburgh. Clearly no accidental fire, Detective Inspector Tony McLean suspects that neither is this simply a grim arson attack. There is far more to the victim than her humble surroundings might suggest, and something ritualistic to her horrific murder.
Nor will it be the only case of death by fire that Tony and his team will be faced with. This is only the beginning, and with such evil clouding the air, Tony begins to wonder what else will burn . . .
We Are Not in the World by Conor O'Callaghan
Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger – his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails.
With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred.
As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations.
Here Comes the Miracle by Anna Beecher
It begins with a miracle: a baby born too small and too early, but defiantly alive. This is Joe.
Decades before, another miracle. In a patch of nettle-infested wilderness, a seventeen year old boy falls in love with his best friend, Jack. This is Edward.
Joe gains a sister, Emily. From the outset, her life is framed by his. She watches him grow into a young man who plays the violin magnificently and longs for a boyfriend. A young man who is ready to begin.
Edward, after being separated from Jack, builds a life with Eleanor. They start a family and he finds himself a grandfather to Joe and Emily.
When Joe is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, Emily and the rest of the family are left waiting for a miracle. A miracle that won't come.
The Divines by Ellie Eaton
I am Divine.
My mother was Divine and her mother before that, which isn't uncommon.
Although that was at a time when being Divine meant something . . .
The girls of elite English boarding school, St. John the Divine, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cutting in the way that only teenage girls can be. But for Josephine, now in her thirties, her time at St. John feels like a lifetime ago. She hasn't spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shut its doors in disgrace . . .
But an impromptu visit reawakens blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the ugly secret at the heart of the school's scandal. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self.
With the emotional power of My Dark Vanessa and the reflective haze of The Girls, The Divines is a compulsive debut exploring the intoxicating, destructive relationships between teenage girls.
All Girls by Emily Layden
An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist intellectuals. The students are smart, driven and worldly; they are also teenagers, learning to find their way. But when they arrive on campus for the start of the Fall term, they're confronted with startling news: an Atwater alumna has made a troubling allegation of sexual misconduct against an unidentified teacher. As the weeks wear on and the administration's efforts to manage the ensuing crisis fall short, these extraordinary young women come to realise that the adults in their lives may not be the protectors they previously believed.
All Girls unfolds over the course of one tumultuous academic year and is told from the point of view of a small cast of diverse, interconnected characters as they navigate the social mores of prep school life and the broader, more universal challenges of growing up. The trials of adolescent girlhood are pitched against the backdrop of sexual assault, consent, anxiety and the ways that our culture looks to young women as trendsetters, but otherwise silences their voices and discounts their opinions. The story that emerges is a richly detailed, impeccably layered, and emotionally nuanced depiction of what it means to come of age in a female body today.
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
It was meant to be an evening to honour and celebrate Evelyn Caldwell's award-winning, career-making scientific research – but Evelyn has things on her mind.
Things like Nathan, her husband, who has left her for a younger, better, newer woman. A woman who is now pregnant – but shouldn't be – and is strikingly familiar. Too familiar to be a coincidence.
A woman who shouldn't exist.
The Echo Wife is a propulsive new novel from an international rising star about identity, murder, and the choices society forces women to make.
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see justice done, and so sets out to solve the crime herself. Enlisting the help of thieftaker Peregrine Child, their inquiry delves into the hidden corners of Georgian society, a world of artifice, deception and secret lives.
But with many gentlemen refusing to speak about their dealings with the dead woman, and Caro's own reputation under threat, finding the killer will be harder, and more treacherous, than she can know . . .
From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . .
The Promise by Lucy Diamond
When faced with the sudden death of his brother, Dan's mission is clear. He puts together a project to help pick up the pieces and support his grieving sister-in-law Zoe, plus her young children. This is Dan's promise – to ensure his family's happiness, and to try and live up to the man his brother was.
But tying up loose ends brings a shocking secret to light, and calls into question everything Dan knew about his older brother. With more than just his promise on the line, Dan is faced with an ultimatum: Should he tell the truth and risk his family's fragile happiness, or will his brother's secrets end up becoming his own?
A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore
Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman.
She is also a spy for the British government.
It all began in the summer of 1928…
Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem is it doesn't appeal to her at all. She is working as a secretary, but longs to make a difference.
Then, one day, she gets her chance. She is recruited by the British government as a spy. Under strict instructions not to tell anyone, not even her family, she moves to London and begins her mission – to infiltrate the Communist movement.
She soon gains the trust of important leaders. But as she grows more and more entangled in the workings of the movement, her job becomes increasingly dangerous. Leading a double life is starting to take its toll on her relationships and, feeling more isolated than ever, she starts to wonder how this is all going to end. The Russians are notorious for ruthlessly disposing of people given the slightest suspicion.
What if they find out?
The One Hundred Years of Lennie and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.
Dodging doctor's orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eight-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years.
To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person who is everything.
As their extraordinary friendship deepens, it becomes vividly clear that life is not done with Lenni and Margot yet.
Kololo Hill by Neema Shah
When you're left with nothing but your secrets, how do you start again?
A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what they can carry, give up their money and never return.
For Asha and Pran, married a matter of months, it means abandoning the family business that Pran has worked so hard to save. For his mother, Jaya, it means saying goodbye to the house that has been her home for decades. But violence is escalating in Kampala, and people are disappearing. Will they all make it to safety in Britain and will they be given refuge if they do?
And all the while, a terrible secret about the expulsion hangs over them, threatening to tear the family apart.
From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah's extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones.
Before my Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
'If I could go back to being sixteen again, I'd do things differently.'
'Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee.
When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her.
But as a Catholic girl with a B.I.T.C.H. for a Mammy and a silent Daddy, things did not go as she and Lizzie Magee had planned.
Now, five children, twenty-five years, an end to the bombs and bullets, enough whiskey to sink a ship and endless wakes and sandwich teas later, Mary's alone. She's learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred steps towards the life she'd always hoped for.
Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too late?
Uncoupling by Lorraine Brown
Could one split second change her life forever?
Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track – that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding. The next morning, Hannah wakes up in Paris and realises that her boyfriend (and her ticket) are 300 miles away in Amsterdam!
But then Hannah meets Léo on the station platform, and he's everything Si isn't. Spending the day with him in Paris forces Hannah to question how well she really knows herself – and whether, sometimes, you need to go in the wrong direction to find everything you've been looking for…
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden
An auteur, together with his lead actors, is at a prestigious European festival to premiere his latest film.
Alone one morning at a backstreet café, he strikes up a conversation with a local woman who takes him on a walk to uncover the city's secrets, historic and personal. As the walk unwinds, a story of love and tragedy emerges, and he begins to see the chance meeting as fate. He is entranced, wholly clear in his mind: her story must surely form the basis for his next film.
This is a novel about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love – it is about the sometimes troubled, sometimes ecstatic creative process, and the toll it takes on its makers.
But it is also a novel about stories, and the ongoing question of who has the right to tell them.
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Clara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered.
Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, moves into the house next door, a house left to him by an old woman he can barely remember and within hours gets a visit from the police. It seems he's suspected of a crime.
At the end of her life Elizabeth Orchard is thinking about a crime too, one committed thirty years ago that had tragic consequences for two families and in particular for one small child. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies.
Set in Northern Ontario in 1972, A Town Called Solace explores the relationships of these three people brought together by fate and the mistakes of the past. By turns gripping and darkly funny, it uncovers the layers of grief and remorse and love that connect us, but shows that sometimes a new life is possible.
The Darkest Evening by Anne Cleeves
The darkest nights can hide the deadliest secrets . . .
Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly.
But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way, eventually stumbling on another car abandoned on the road. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat.
Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in.
Inside Brockburn a party is in full swing, with music and laughter to herald the coming Christmas. But outside in the snow, a young woman lies dead and Vera has a new case. Could she be the child's mother and, if she is, what happened to her?
The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson
Two women, two very different destinies, drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London:
Elizabeth of York, her life already tainted by dishonour and tragedy, now queen to the first Tudor king, Henry the VII.
Joan Vaux, servant of the court, straining against marriage and motherhood and privy to the deepest and darkest secrets of her queen. Like the ravens, Joan must use her eyes and her senses, as conspiracy whispers through the dark corridors of the Tower.
Through Joan's eyes, The Lady of the Ravens inhabits the squalid streets of Tudor London, the imposing walls of its most fearsome fortress and the glamorous court of a kingdom in crisis.
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son, completes the picture. But it only takes a bullet to rip them apart.
In a city in the grip of a drug cartel, friends become enemies overnight, and Lydia has no choice but to flee with Luca at her side. North for the border… whatever it takes to stay alive. The journey is dangerous – not only for them, but for those they encounter along the way. Who can be trusted? And what sacrifices is Lydia prepared to make.
The Secrets of De Courcy Square by Ann O'Loughlin
When Cora Gartland learns that long-term partner, Jack, has been killed in a car crash in Ireland her world falls apart. But she soon discovers that there was another woman in the car: a wife he'd never told her about.
Devastated, she flies to Dublin to try to make sense of Jack's secret life. As she grieves, Cora must find the truth and a way to move forward. But what else was Jack keeping from her and how will she survive this betrayal…?
The Sight of You by Holly Miller
Joel is afraid of the future.
Since he was a child he's been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what's going to happen – the good and the bad. And the only way to prevent them is to never let anyone close to him again.
Callie can't let go of the past.
Since her best friend died, Callie's been lost. She knows she needs to be more spontaneous and live a bigger life. She just doesn't know how to find a way back to the person who used to have those dreams.
Joel and Callie both need a reason to start living for today.
And though they're not looking for each other, from the moment they meet it feels like the start of something life-changing.
Until Joel has a vision of how it's going to end . . .
The Perfect Father by Charlotte Duckworth
THE PERFECT HUSBAND . . .
After a difficult pregnancy, Esther is grateful that her husband Robin offers to put his career on hold so that she can return to the job she loves.
But Esther finds leaving her daughter Riley behind more challenging than she'd thought. And soon the new imbalance in her relationship with Robin brings old tensions to the surface.
OR A PERFECT LIE?
Then one day Esther arrives home from work to find Robin and Riley are missing. As the police investigate their disappearance, it becomes clear that nothing about this modern-day family is what it seems…
Is Robin the perfect father everyone thinks he is? Or was it all a perfect lie?
Jack & Bet by Sarah Butler
Even the longest marriages have their secrets . . .
Jack and Bet have been married for seventy years. Happily so, for the most part. Now, all they want is to enjoy the time they have left together in their small flat. But their son Tommy has other ideas: he thinks they should move out and opt
for round-the-clock care in a very different kind of home.
When a young Romanian woman, Marinela, enters their lives, Bet thinks she might have found a solution to all of their problems; one that could change Marinela's life for the better. But doing so would mean confronting a long-buried secret Bet has kept hidden from everyone, even Jack, for decades.
An irresistibly moving story about love and loss, Jack & Bet is at once a story of unlikely friendship and a tender look at a lifelong struggle to find a place to call home.
Paperback & eBook releases
Mother by Laura Jarratt
Two Girls. One Chance.
When Lizzie's car crashes with her two daughters inside, she faces a terrible choice. And when she recovers from her injuries, she has to deal with the impact of that tragedy as well as the police investigation into it.
As Lizzie and her family struggle to come to terms with the events of that night, things take an even darker turn. Just what did happen on that remote country road? Who is responsible? And can the family get through this together…Or will the truth finally tear them apart?
The Heart Stone by Judith Barrow
1914. Everything changes for Jessie on a day trip to Blackpool. She realises her feelings for Arthur are far more than friendship. And just as they are travelling home, war is declared.
Arthur lies about his age to join his Pals' Regiment. Jessie's widowed mother is so frightened, she agrees to marry Amos Morgan. Only Jessie can see how vicious he is. When he turns on her, Arthur's mother is the only person to help her, the two women drawn together by Jessie's deepest secret.
Facing a desperate choice between love and safety, will Jessie trust the right people? Can she learn to trust herself?
The Other Daughter by Caroline Bishop
You only get one life – but what if it isn't the one you were meant to live?
'When it finally arrived I was shocked to see it; to read the words Mum wrote about these women fighting for rights I know I take for granted. Mum was here. And while she was, something happened that changed the entire course of my life. Perhaps, if I can summon the courage, the next eight weeks will help me finally figure out what that was . . .'
When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of answers. She knows her journalist mother spent time in the country forty years earlier, reporting on the Swiss women's liberation movement, but what she doesn't know is what happened to her while she was there. Can Jess summon the courage to face the truth about her family, or will her search only hurt herself and those around her even more?
The Kindness Club on Mapleberry Lane by Helen Rolfe
The smallest things can make the biggest difference…
Veronica Beecham's cottage is the neatest house on Mapleberry Lane. A place for everything, and everything in its place – that's her motto. But within her wisteria-covered walls, Veronica has a secret: she's hardly left her perfect home in years.
Then her teenage granddaughter, Audrey, arrives on the doorstep, and Veronica's orderly life is turned upside down. Shy and lonely, Audrey is struggling to find her place in the world. As a bond begins to form between the two women, Audrey develops a plan to give her gran the courage to reconnect with the community – they'll form a kindness club, with one generous action a day to help someone in the village, and perhaps help each other at the same time.
As their small acts of kindness begins to ripple outwards, both Veronica and Audrey find that with each passing day, they feel a little braver. There's just one task left before the end of the year: to make Veronica's own secret wish come true…
Fatal Isles by Maria Adolfsson
A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . .
In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.
Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years in London and has worked hard to become one of the few female police officers in Doggerland.
So, when she wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she's made a big mistake. But things are about to get worse: later that day, Jounas's ex-wife is found brutally murdered. And Karen is the only one who can give him an alibi.
The news sends shockwaves through the tight-knit island community, and with no leads and no obvious motive for the murder, Karen struggles to find the killer in a race against time.
Soon she starts to suspect that the truth might lie in Doggerland's history. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that even small islands can hide deadly secrets . . .
Valse Triste by Marcello Fois
When Michelangelo, a young autistic child, goes missing, Commissario Sergio Striggio is put in charge of the investigation. Searches turn up nothing, but there is an interesting connection with the mother's past: when she was a child, her twin brother also went missing, never to be found.
However, Striggio is finding it difficult to concentrate on the case. He is waiting for his father, Pietro, to come and stay. The idea of the visit is torturing him. He fears having to reveal that he is gay – most of all he fears that his partner, Leo, will reveal his sexuality to his father. Pietro, however, has other matters on his mind: he has news of a devastating diagnosis to share with his son.
And when his life with Leo unexpectedly collides with his investigation into Michelangelo's disappearance, it seems that in the complicated web of the small town of Bolzano, the truth behind the mystery cannot hide for long.
Safe and Sound by Philippa East
Home can be the most dangerous place…
In a small London bedsit, a radio is playing. A small dining table is set for three, and curled up on the sofa is a body…
Jenn is the one who discovers the woman, along with the bailiffs. All indications suggest that the tenant – Sarah Jones – was pretty, charismatic and full of life.
So how is it possible that her body has lain undiscovered for ten whole months?
Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea by Liz Eeles
From the attic of Driftwood House there are stunning views of the deep green sea and sapphire sky. But Rosie can't tear her eyes away from the faded photograph in her hands, and the words written on the back that will change everything…
Back in the tiny seaside village of Heaven's Cove after the death of her mother, all Rosie Merchant wants is to hide her tears, rent out her childhood home, and get back to her 'real' life, away from the gossiping villagers and wild Devon weather she escaped from years ago.
She's surprised to find a smiling man in hiking boots – local farmer Liam – waiting on the stone doorstep. His kind offer to help clear crumbling, isolated Driftwood House is hard to refuse, and despite Rosie's determination not to let anyone get close, soon they're walking and laughing together along the clifftops. As clouds scud across the endless sky and green waves crash against the shore, Rosie is reminded that nowhere is more beautiful than home.
Then, up in the attic of Driftwood House, Rosie stumbles across a photo which exposes the heart-stopping truth about how her mother came to live at Driftwood House years ago… and Liam only seems concerned about the implications for his own nearby farm. Did he know this painful secret all along, and should she run from Heaven's Cove for good? Or will facing up to her devastating family history mean Rosie can finally put down roots in this beautiful place?
The Scarlet Dress by Louise Douglas
Alice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and her memory still casts a long shadow.
'The past was like water. Once the tide turned, you couldn't hold it back.'
In the long, hot summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs the bar, falls in love with Alice, and is unbearably jealous of anyone else she sees. Tensions rise until one evening Alice disappears from her caravan. She's never seen again, and only her scarlet dress is found washed up on the shore.
A quarter of a century later, the town is run down and nobody comes there anymore. Mr and Mrs deVillars, former owners of the holiday park, have passed the failing business onto their son Guy, who promptly sells the land for development. Builders clearing the land to create an expanse of executive homes uncover human bones. It has to be Alice.
Will and Marnie's lives were entirely shaped by what happened that summer, and now Alice has been found, they must struggle to pin down their memories, to escape the secrets of the past, the lies they told and the unbearable guilt they're both carrying.
They need to find out what happened to Alice. Who killed her? And why?
The Garden of Little Rose by Suzanne Snow
For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past.
At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding. When the gorgeous Mac accepts her invite, she assumes he's joking and thinks nothing more of it… Until he turns up at the church on the wedding day.
But Mac has an agenda. He wants to hire her skills as a horticulturist to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana. Flora knows she should refuse – Mac has 'heartbreaker' written all over him – but she can't resist uncovering the tragic truth behind the garden at Róisín.
When We Were Young by Jaclyn Goldis
Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger—of far greater threat is the opposing needs of her heart and her people. Tradition demands that Sarah marry a Jewish man. Only Sarah has fallen in love with a fisherman outside their community. And when the Nazis invade, Sarah must watch from afar as her family is taken away. . .
Corfu, 2004: Sarah's daughter, Bea, has built a happy life with a steadfast husband and two independent daughters. Their summers on the Greek island with the Winn family appear idyllic, especially the love that blossoms between Bea's daughter Joey and Leo Winn. But there is a secret threatening their beach paradise.
Florida, 2019:Joey is only days away from marrying the nice Jewish man her family adores. The arrival of Leo, Joey's first love, sends her reeling. Even after fifteen years, the attraction between them burns bright—but Leo isn't looking for a happy reunion. He's there to reveal why he really broke up with her during their last summer together.
Weddings have a way of bringing out the best—and worst—in those you love the most. And as the revelations of her family flood to the surface, what Joey learns will either bring them closer together . . . or tear them apart forever.
The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambron
Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a series of rations, brutal restrictions, and carefully controlled propaganda while Paris is cut off from the rest of the world. Yet in hidden corners of the city, the faithful pledge to resist. Lila is drawn to La Resistance and is soon using her skills as a dressmaker to infiltrate the Nazi elite. She takes their measurements and designs masterpieces, all while collecting secrets in the glamorous Hôtel Ritz—the heart of the Nazis' Parisian headquarters. But when dashing René Touliard suddenly reenters her world, Lila finds her heart tangled between determination to help save his Jewish family and bolstering the fight for liberation. Paris, 1943. Sandrine Paquet's job is to catalog the priceless works of art bound for the Führer's Berlin, masterpieces stolen from prominent Jewish families. But behind closed doors, she secretly forages for information from the underground resistance. Beneath her compliant façade lies a woman bent on uncovering the fate of her missing husband . . . but at what cost? As Hitler's regime crumbles, Sandrine is drawn in deeper when she uncrates an exquisite blush Chanel gown concealing a cryptic message that may reveal the fate of a dressmaker who vanished from within the fashion elite.
A Fatal Lie by Charles Todd
In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge must delve deep into a dead man's life and his past to find a killer determined to keep dark secrets buried.
A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body, he isn't a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard for help.
When Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent from London to find answers, he is given few clues—a faded military tattoo on the victim's arm and an unusual label in the collar of his shirt. They eventually lead him to the victim's identity: Sam Milford. By all accounts, he was a good man and well-respected. Then, why is his death so mysterious? Looking for the truth, Rutledge uncovers a web of lies swirling around a suicidal woman, a child's tragic fate, another woman bent on protecting her past. But where among all the lies is the motive for murder?
To track a killer, Rutledge must retrace Milford's last journey. Yet death seems to stalk his every move, and the truth seems to shift at every turn. Man or woman, this murderer stays in the shadows, and it will take desperate measures to lure him—or her—into the light.
The Birds of Bachelor Lane by Hannah McNiven
Bachelor Lane is living up to its name. Presided over by the domineering Evelyn Burnley, it was once filled with life and people but now is a place with a distinct lack of gossip-worthy news. But, in the spring of 1953, all of that is about to change.
Evelyn's eldest daughter, Lili, forms a tenuous relationship with a farmer on the Lane, Ewan Cameron. Meanwhile Wren Stevens, a timid girl banished from the household of her mentally ill mother, arrives in the local town to take up residence with her wealthy Great-aunt Astrid. Here, Wren blossoms under the positive influence of Astrid and catches the eye of several young men. However, it is Bertie Burnley, Evelyn's only son, who makes the greatest impression on her.
As the seasons change each of them experiences family difficulties, the joy of love, the pain of loss and the sting of betrayal. They learn that love can bring out the best in people –and the worst. And they realise that no matter how close they become, everyone can keep secrets.
Where Ravens Roost by Karin Nordin
The raven cawed at him, craning its neck unnaturally. As it dug its hooked beak into the mess of dried grass and twigs that made up its nest, a shiny glimmer reflected off a low-hanging bulb. Kjeld edged closer to get a better look. It was a human tooth.
Detective Kjeld Nygaard wants nothing more than to forget his family and Varsund, the small mining town he once called home, even exist. But while on suspension after his last case went disastrously wrong, his estranged father Stenar leaves a message on Kjeld's phone claiming he's seen a murder.
But with no evidence and Stenar suffering from Alzheimer's, the local police think he must have imagined it. Kjeld can't stop himself from investigating what actually happened, and soon discovers a body. But when the police start to suspect Stenar, it's a race against time to discover the truth before it's lost forever.
But will uncovering the truth expose family secrets that are best left buried?
The Dare by Lesley Kara
As a child, it was just a game. As an adult, it was a living nightmare.
'This time it's different. She's gone too far now.
She really has.'
When teenage friends Lizzie and Alice decide to head off for a walk in the countryside, they are blissfully unaware that this will be their final day together – and that only Lizzie will come back alive.
Lizzie has no memory of what happened in the moments before Alice died, she only knows that it must have been a tragic accident. But as she tries to cope with her grief, she is shocked to find herself alienated from Alice's friends and relatives. They are convinced she somehow had a part to play in her friend's death.
Twelve years later, unpacking boxes in the new home she shares with her fiancé, Lizzie is horrified to find long-buried memories suddenly surfacing. Is the trauma of the accident finally catching up with her, or could someone be trying to threaten her new-found happiness?
Twelve years is a long time to wait, when you're planning the perfect revenge . . .
Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge
You wake up.
You can't remember what happened.
The man lying next to you is not your husband.
And he's not breathing . . .
Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy. But she suspects she's done something bad.
She rolls over towards her husband, Niall.
But it's not Niall who's lying beside her. In fact, she's never seen this man before.
And he's dead . . .
As Louise desperately struggles to piece her memories back together, Detective Jonah Sheens and his team mark her as their prime suspect.
But she's not the only one with something to hide . . .
Did she do it?
And, if not, can they catch the real killer before they strike again?
Who Took Eden Mulligan by Sharon Dempsey
'They're dead. They're all dead. It's my fault. I killed them.'
Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast.
Outside the cottage, five old dolls are hanging from a tree. Inside the cottage, the words "WHO TOOK EDEN MULLIGAN?" are graffitied on the wall, connecting the murder scene with the famous cold case of Eden Mulligan, a mother-of-five who went missing during The Troubles.
But this case is different. Right from the start.
Because no one in the community is willing to tell the truth, and the only thing DI Danny Stowe and forensic psychologist Rose Lainey can be certain of is that Iona Gardener's confession is false….
The Hiding Place by Jenny Quintana
Some houses have their secrets. But so do some people . . .
Abandoned as a baby in the hallway of a shared house in London, Marina has never known her parents, and the circumstances of her birth still remain a mystery.
Now an adult, Marina has returned to the house where it all started, determined to find out who she really is. But the walls of this house hold more than memories, and Marina's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by the other tenants.
Someone is watching Marina. Someone who knows the truth . . .
Madam by Phoebe Wynne
For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall has loomed high above the Scottish cliffs as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope. A boarding school for girls, it promises that its pupils will emerge 'resilient and ready to serve society'.
Into its illustrious midst steps Rose Christie, a 26-year-old Classics teacher and new head of department. Rose is overwhelmed by the institution: its arcane traditions, unrivalled prestige, and terrifyingly cool, vindictive students. Her classroom becomes her haven, where the stories of fearless women from ancient Greek and Roman history ignite the curiosity of the girls she teaches and, unknowingly, the suspicions of the powers that be.
But as Rose uncovers the darkness that beats at the very heart of Caldonbrae, the lines between myth and reality grow ever more blurred. It will be up to Rose – and the fierce young women she has come to love – to find a way to escape the fate the school has in store for them, before it is too late.
Secrets on the Fens by Joy Ellis
One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods. The young man is clutching a red rose. It appears to be a lovers' suicide pact . . .
Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely. Romeo and Juliet, as they decide to call them, were murdered somewhere else and brought to the woods. But why?
Then another young couple are found dead, again beautifully posed as lovers. And Nikki knows they have a twisted serial killer on their hands. Who are the next victims?
EVERYONE HAS SECRETS. BUT SOME PEOPLE WILL KILL TO KEEP THEM.
The Verdict by C J Cooper
You set him free. But what if you were wrong?
One morning, a jury summons arrives on Natalie's doorstep.
She is one of twelve people to decide whether a man is innocent or guilty of a horrific crime.
But in the weeks after the trial, Natalie can't shake the feeling that the verdict was a terrible mistake. That they let a guilty man walk free.
So when she crosses paths with the accused by chance, she decides to do whatever it takes to find the truth.
Because as Natalie knows, sometimes you have to take justice into your own hands . . .
The Blame by Kerry Wilkinson
Paige, Richard and me. We thought we'd be friends forever. But everything changed the day we took the short cut home from school along the old railway line. I wish we'd gone the long way. I wish we hadn't seen our classmate, pale and still in the undergrowth. And I wish we hadn't promised to keep one, awful detail a secret just between us…
Twenty years later, I have a brand-new life, and try never to think about my old one. But I'm dragged back when Paige calls out of the blue. Richard has been accused of something terrible. Everyone back home is whispering about the body we found years ago, and saying Richard deserves to be locked up…
Before I know it, I've returned to the small town I thought I'd never see again. Paige is almost the same as I remember – jet-black hair, slender frame – but why does she seem so nervous?
Revealing the truth about what we saw that day twenty years ago could clear Richard's name… but will the blame fall on me? And can I really trust that Paige is on my side – or is she hiding her own dark secret?
When we find a strange note in Richard's flat, only one thing is for certain: someone else knows the truth too. All three of us are in danger…
So that's it for another week, some cracking titles I think you'll agree.
Happy Reading!!
Previous Not Having it All by @Jennie_Ensor – Relaunch and Giveaway #Revamp #Coverreveal #Giveaway
Next Publication Day for The Heart Stone by Judith Barrow @judithbarrow77
Fictionophile says:
So, so many here that sound appealing Jill. I particularly like the sound of "Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea" by Liz Eeles.
Jill's Book Cafe says:
There are lots I'll be keeping an eye on as way too expensive to afford them at the minute. Plus I'm supposed to be reading what I've got (which will last me a good 20 years!).
Thanks for the much needed reminder 😚📚
Mary Smith says:
I'm looking forward to Judith Barrow's The Heart Stone.
It does look good, not long to wait!


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Q: ZF2 when to use getServiceLocator() and when not to I am really confused on when to use getServiceLocator and when not to.
As an example:
+ Module
-+ Helloworld
--+ src
---+ Controller
----+ IndexController.php
----+ IndexControllerFactory.php

---+ Service
----+ LogginService.php
----+ GreetingService.php
----+ GreetingServiceFactory.php

GreetingServiceFactory.php has the content:
<?php
namespace Helloworld\Service;

use Zend\ServiceManager\FactoryInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;

class GreetingServiceFactory implements FactoryInterface
{

    public function createService (ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $greetingService = new GreetingService();

        $greetingService->setEventManager($serviceLocator->get('eventManager'));

        $loggingService = $serviceLocator->get('loggingService');

        $greetingService->getEventManager()->attach('getGreeting', array(
            $loggingService,
            'onGetGreeting'
        ));

        return $greetingService;
    }
}

And IndexControllerFactory.php has the content:
<?php
namespace Helloworld\Controller;

use Zend\ServiceManager\FactoryInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;

class IndexControllerFactory implements FactoryInterface
{

    public function createService (ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $ctr = new IndexController();

        $ctr->setGreetingService($serviceLocator->getServiceLocator()
            ->get('greetingService'));
        return $ctr;
    }
}

As you can see, I need $serviceLocator->getServiceLocator() in my ControllerFactory but not in my ServiceFactory. Why? Both use the same interface ServiceLocatorInterface which does not even define the getServiceLocator() method.
module.config.php:
'controllers' => array(
    'factories' => array(
        'Helloworld\Controller\Index' => 'Helloworld\Controller\IndexControllerFactory'
    )
)
,
'service_manager' => array(
    'invokables' => array(
        'loggingService' => 'Helloworld\Service\LoggingService'
    ),
    'factories' => array(
        'greetingService'=> 'Helloworld\Service\GreetingServiceFactory'
    ),
)

I'd appreciate any clarification :)
Have a nice day!

A:
As you can see, I need $serviceLocator->getServiceLocator() in my ControllerFactory but not in my ServiceFactory. Why?

The controller factory is called by a different service manager instance (the "ControllerLoader") to the main one. This is so that the dispatcher can't result in an arbitrary class being instantiated by the main service manager.
As a result, the controller factory's $serviceLocator is not the one you need when you want to retrieve 'greetingService', as 'greetingService' is registered with the main service manager. To get the main server manager from the controller one, you use getServiceLocator() and you now have an instance of the main service manager from which you can get() 'greeting service'
This is known as 'peering'. i.e.  the "ControllerLoader" service manager (the one configured via the 'controllers' key in the config or getControllerConfiguration() in a Module class) is set up with the main service manager as a peer.

A: Denitively you shouln't use getServiceLocator since that method is not defined in ServiceLocatorInterface instead use get()

A: The method getServiceLocator is defined on the AbstractPluginManager, since it implements the ServiceLocatorAwareInterface. As Maks3w pointed out, it is not part of the ServiceLocatorInterface, so avoid using it when implementing a service factory.
You can anyway define your factory as closure and still use it:
class MyModule
{
    public function getControllerConfig()
    {
        return array(
            'factories' => array(
                'IndexController' => function (
                    \Zend\ServiceManager\AbstractPluginManager $pm
                ) {
                    $ctr = new IndexController();

                    $ctr->setGreetingService(
                        $pm
                            ->getServiceLocator()
                            ->get('greetingService')
                    );

                    return $ctr;
                },
            ),
        );
    }
}

While in this example $pm is indeed a ServiceLocatorInterface instance, you will still need to get a reference to the "main" service manager to access the 'greetingService'.
ZF2 uses different service managers or plugin managers for controllers, services, view helpers, controller plugins, etc... That is mainly for type-hinting (look at the interface of the AbstractPluginManager to understand how type strictness is achieved) and for security.
In this case, the security issue is disallowing access to services that are not controllers, especially with routes with a dynamic controller parameter. That's why controllers are kept in a separate plugin manager.
Since the controller plugin manager is created from the "main" service manager, it also is initialized thanks to the ServiceLocatorAwareInterface.
To make this more clear, I've added a graph of the relations (does not include the factory and don't take it as valid UML):

A: I am offering this up as an alternative that uses the base module.config.php setup
Now I was doing something similar but using something like this.
class BaseServices extends AbstractActionController
implements ServiceLocatorAwareInterface{
    ...
  public function setServiceLocator(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator){
        if($serviceLocator instanceof ControllerManager){
          $this->service_locator = $serviceLocator->getServiceLocator();

          $this->entities_service = $this->service_locator
            ->get('entities_service');

          $this->session = new Session(array(
            'entities_service'=>$this->entities_service,
            'service_locator'=>$this->service_locator,
          ));
          return $this;
        }
      }
  }
...
}

Now the thing that had stumped me was having to come to the realization that I needed to only use the first service locator that is used during the instantiation of any controller that extends this class...
On instantiation: this class was first getting fed a ControllerManager and then the ServiceManager for the setServiceLocator method.
I only wanted to use the ControllerManger and its method for getting the ServiceManager to then instantiate my factories;
the partial on my module.config.php
module.config.php
{
...
'service_manager' =>
  'abstract_factories' => array(
    'Zend\Log\LoggerAbstractServiceFactory',
   ),
  'factories' => array(
       'entities_service' => 'Service\Providers\Entities',
  ),
   'invokables' => array(
     'post'      => 'Service\Controllers\Runtime\Post',
    ),
  ),
}

Now I could have used something like the following to filter for the right ServiceLocator... yet I am a fan of using as little boiler plate as necessary...
interface AbstractFactoryInterface
{
  public function canCreateServiceWithName(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator, $name, $requestedName);

  public function createServiceWithName(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator, $name, $requestedName);
}

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BSkyB faces football fight
By This Is Money
Updated: 19:00 EST, 2 April 2000
The battle for one of the world's hottest broadcast deals has kicked off after the chairmen of England's top 20 soccer clubs met to hammer out the terms of the sale of Premiership screening rights.
In a competition expected to bring a bonanza of up to £2bn for clubs in the top flight, the chairmen set about putting the finishing touches to a tender document for rights to be awarded by June.
Under the current contract, BSkyB paid £670m for a four-years of exclusive live coverage, while the BBC paid £73m for the highlights.
The Premiership games have been a keystone of BSkyB's empire - which now boasts 2.8 million subscribers - but the satellite broadcaster has more competition this time.
Cable operator NTL , media group Granada -- which co-owns pay-TV company ONdigital with Carlton -- the BBC, ITV and video-on-demand operators such as Yes Television are expected to enter the battle.
Private equity firms may also join in with the aim of selling the rights on, while some media companies may team together to boost their clout.
The deal, running from the 2001-2002 football season, is widely expected to split up the rights this time between a large 60-game live package and several smaller ones covering some live games, highlights, pay-per-view and the Internet.

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It's been a month and 10 days since I aborted my baby, and my family would say how strong they thought I was and how well I was coping – I was fine! I'd think about it and sometimes get a little teary but I thought I would be okay. but I realize now I've made the biggest mistake of my life.
Me and my boyfriend found out in October that I was pregnant, and we were scared but so excited. We were making plans about how things would be, how we were gonna be parents. Ofcourse we had our slight doubts, but then he changed. He talked of how we needed to live our lives, have fun while we're young, have money and do what we want!
I understood, I'm only 17 and he's 18. I'd cry and tell him I didn't wanna get rid of it but he would get angry and explain why we needed to.
Then my mum found out and took me out of college. My mum never cries, but she was hysterical that night. I was stubborn and harsh, ran off to a friend's with my boyfriend for the night. But they rang and said I had to go home and ring my dad, tell him what happened. They threatened with the police and everything. It was the worst night.. I got back and mum begged me to stay butI wouldn't. I rang my dad and he was surprisingly okay, calling me a rascal and understanding how upset I was. But when it calmed down, they said they would stick by me whatever I chose to do. I knew mum wanted me to keep it.. I wanted to. But as soon as they found out it seemed like everything was a blur, I had to do something and that something was go to family planning and register for an abortion. I didn't want it, but I knew i could choose against it later.
Then a week before the abortion, at 9 weeks pregnant, i bled heavily and went to hospital to get it checked out. The baby was fine, and myself and my boyfriend saw it wiggling about on the screen. He didn't speak for the rest of the day, and I thought that made him change his mind. It didn't.. and we went back to hours of me crying in bed and him explaining why we had to get rid of it. He would tell me he wasn;t ready to be a dad, and once even shouted "i don't love it"I realize now how I was manipulated, forced into believing it was best for me and I could have a good life afterwards. I walked into the hospital numb, like i didn't realize what I was doing, and walked out without my baby.
I felt like I was taking it so well, yet 3 days later, on Christmas Eve, the baby came out on my underwear. I cried, and had the worst Christmas of my life, digging a little hole in the woods and burying it on my own coz my boyfriend refused to come. I was hysterical, but thought I would get closure.
After that, everything seemed to be going okay. Id cry some nights, regretting what I'd been made to do. But recently it's been worse. I cry all the time. On the bus to college.. on the way home from work.. I fell like I have noone to talk to – my boyfriend just says "it's gone, you have to get over it" when I bring it up and get upset. My doctor's sending me to a counsellor. My mum and dad both stress that I should talk to them, but there's no talking anyway. I just cry and nothing that anyone can say can make it better. I cried so much in my dad's arms that he cried too, and told me he would do anything to make me better, even go back and dig up my baby to put it in the garden without anyone even knowing.
The truth is it's broken me. I feel like an empty shell. I make my boyfriend cry and we argue all the time 'coz i blame him and shout and call him names. But I do blame him.. I know it was my choice but I feel I was unknowingly pushed. I would do anything to still be pregnant. My baby would be due around June, and every day I regret what I did. It breaks my heart knowing I wasn't sure, and have made a mistake. I see other women with their babies and children and think that, even though I'm 17, I would have made a great mum. I'd do anything to take it back.
I wish I'd found this site beforehand, and I'm gonna keep an up-to-date blog on how things go.
if i was in your case i would do anything even if it means raising a baby on my own, i lost my baby in october last year got married and everything…but for now i hope i got my angel back im pregnant again i know how you feel i would cry in a mall wen i would see moms and there babies, pregnant ladies and i was craving so bad for a baby but the thing that shoud and suppose to help you the most is the people that love you cause you can depend on them if your bf is acting all weird its time you should set him straight sit him down and tell him how you feel….althought the babt didnt make it,t had feeling and so do you.
i aborted too a month ago on thursday, i cant even walk down the street and look at a baby i would do anything to have more time to of thought it through, my boyfriend who was not the father trys to keep me from going anywhere theres gonna be babies cause i just cry. the process here is alot different im horrified to no your baby came out on your underwear in Australia its very very different id like to chat more to you.
My story is excactly the same as yours. I had an abortion only 2 weeks ago, and ever since then i have regretted it, i wish i hadnt listened to my boyfriend. Boys will never understand the pain we go through, not just physically but emotionally to. I blame him every single day but still i get told to "get over it" its so hard hearing the boy thats supose to love you say that!! He even told me for two whole months that he had told his parents about me being pregnant, he would tell me they wernt going to support us and he was glad about that. I only found out a week after my abortion that he hadnt told them and had lie to me! My advice to any young girl going through the same thing would be to listen to your heart! Dnt let anyone pressure you into doing something you dont want to do. I've had counseling and am on anti-depressants and i still feel so empty, i grew to love my baby in just 9 weeks, without even meeting it.
I want to abort my baby, please teach me what am goin to do.
im not yet ready to have a baby.
sweetheart, ive been there… i thought i was doing the right thing, then a few days after..it hit me.. and i realised what i did .. and i regreted it. But listen, you have to know that it was the best decision you could have made at the time, and you cant look down yourself. Your baby is happy and fine. You are going to be ok, time will allow you to heal.. but for now just stay calm and breath.
i been through the same and it hurts everyday i constantly think of my baby i act ok so that everyone thinks im not affected but every night i sit in the chair and cry for my baby. i already have a little boy and didnt think i could cope with 2 children under 2 but i would have made it work.
i know the feelings you feel. I know what its like to see your unborn child in front of you. when i had my abortion, i saw its fingers its toes its heart. My heart felt like it had torn staright thru the middle, i struggle to sleep at night, and i endlessly feel like im alone. you have given me peace. knowing you have been through somthing so simular to me. Even tho there was somebody there for me, you still feel alone, you still feel like your the only one that could understand. but i want you to know i understand, i completely understand. im always here if you need somebody to cry or talk to. your never alone. no matter if you feel it. your not. il pray for you.
Youre definately not alone, I'm 19 years old and I had an abortion at 5 months 5 years ago. It still haunts me til this day but overtime it doesnt hurt as much as it does in the beginning. I juss wanna be blunt and let you know that you're always gonna think about it. Every girl who has been through it does, I know that for a fact. No need in sugarcoating anything for u sweetie, it wouldnt b right to build u up for u just to be brought right back down. But if you ever need to talk about it and coping methods I am here for you. I'm still coping to this day.


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NTEC continues talks for stake in power plant
Noel Lyn Smith
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FARMINGTON — Officials with the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. are continuing to negotiate with the Arizona Public Service Co. to acquire a 7 percent interest in the Four Corners Power Plant.
Clark Moseley, CEO of NTEC, said the option to acquire the percentage in ownership is "still a valid option."
"We're under discussions with APS regarding the acquisition of that 7 percent ownership," Moseley said in an interview on Friday at the company's office here.
NTEC is an enterprise of the Navajo tribe. It owns the Navajo Mine, which is the sole supplier of coal to the power plant.
APS is the majority utility owner of the power plant, located on tribal land near Fruitland.
In December 2015, the board of directors for NTEC approved the acquisition, which had been a purchasing option as part of the coal sales agreement with APS, according to an NTEC release.
Moseley said he would not provide further information about the discussions associated with the purchase "because it's still active business negotiations with APS."
He declined to comment on the benefits that would development from the investment, as well as whether the power plant would be a sustainable resource in light of other energy-producing options entering the market.
APS acquired the 7 percent ownership through an affiliate, 4C Acquisition LLC, a subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corp. and the parent company of APS, after El Paso Electric sold the share last July.
El Paso Electric made the decision to divest as a cost-effective measure and because of concerns about the environmental impact of coal-produced energy.
Annie DeGraw, communications consultant with APS, said in an email this week APS was notified by NTEC that it is executing the option to acquire the 7 percent interest in the power plant. The notification APS received was in accordance with the provisions of the coal agreement, she wrote.
"Pursuant to that agreement, they have up to one year — July 2017 — to complete the acquisition," DeGraw wrote.
In the meantime, Moseley said the transition in the operator for the Navajo Mine continues to go smoothly.
Bisti Fuels Co. LLC, a subsidiary of the North American Coal Corp., took over operations of the mine from BHP Billiton on Jan. 1.
"The transition has gone very well," Moseley said.
He added that North American Coal has brought an inclusive culture to the operation, and the corporation values employee input and participation.
Noel Lyn Smith covers the Navajo Nation for The Daily Times. She can be reached at 505-564-4636.


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Four myths about the Great War of 1914-1918
Mark Harrison 03 June 2014
The Great War offers lessons for today. But this column argues from recent research that many so-called lessons are misunderstood. Secretive, authoritarian regimes become dangerous when they fear the future. Deterrence matters. Other aspects also demand re-evaluation.
Russia's national income in war and revolution, 1913 to 1928
Mark Harrison, Andrei Markevich
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Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin O'Rourke
As its centennial approaches, the events of the Great War have worldwide resonance. Most obviously, is China the Germany of today? Will China's rise, unlike Germany's, remain peaceful? The journalist Gideon Rachman wrote last year (Financial Times, February 4, 2013):
"The analogy [of China today] with Germany before the first world war is striking … It is, at least, encouraging that the Chinese leadership has made an intense study of the rise of great powers over the ages – and is determined to avoid the mistakes of both Germany and Japan."
The idea that China's leaders wish to avoid Germany's mistakes is reassuring. But what 'mistakes' do they seek to avoid? We ourselves continue to debate, and sometimes misunderstand, what mistakes were made, and even whether they were mistakes at all. This is not reassuring.
A recent paper (Harrison 2014) reviews four 'myths' of the Great War. These concern misinterpretations of how the war started, how it was won, how it was lost, and how the peace was made. Each has implications for today.
How the war began: An inadvertent conflict?
Interviewed earlier this year at Davos (Financial Times, January 22, 2014), Japanese premier Shinzo Abe likened modern China and Japan to Britain and Germany in 1913. He noted that strong commercial ties had not prevented the latter powers from going to war. He warned against a similar 'inadvertent' conflict.
In fact, the record is clear, despite attempts to falsify it (described by Herwig 1987). There was no inadvertent conflict. The decisions that began the Great War show:
Agency;
Calculation;
Foresight; and
Backward induction.
Agency is shown by the fact that in each country the decision was made by a handful of people (Hamilton and Herwig 2004). These governing circles included waverers, but at the critical moment the advocates of war, civilian as well as military, were able to dominate. Agency was not weakened by alliance commitments or mobilisation timetables. In its 'blank cheque' to Austria, for example, Germany went far beyond its alliance obligation. Italy, in contrast, eventually took up arms against former allies.
No country went to war for commercial advantage. Business interests favoured peace in all countries. Public opinion was considered mainly when the leading actors worried about the legitimacy of actions they had already decided on. If capital and labour had been represented in the Austrian, German, and Russian cabinets, there would have been no war.
What ruled the leaders' calculation in every country was the idea of the national interest (Hamilton and Herwig 2004: 239; on interests as ideas see Rodrik 2014), based on shared beliefs and values. All the decision makers were subscribers to a negative‐sum game of power, not the positive‐sum game of commerce and development. The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires were in decline. This triggered a struggle for geopolitical advantage.
The first movers expected that action would be followed by counteraction (Herwig 2002, Hamilton and Herwig 2004, Fromkin 2007, McMeekin 201, Macmillan 1913, Clark 2013). While the ignorant many hoped for a short war, the informed few rationally feared a longer, wider conflict. They planned for this, acknowledging that final victory was far from certain.
The European powers understood deterrence (Macmillan 2013: 503-4). No one started a war in 1909 or 1912 because at that time they were deterred. War came in 1914 because in that moment deterrence failed.
Deterrence was weakened by the atmosphere in Berlin and Vienna, which was far from triumphalist. The German and Austrian leaders believed their enemies were growing in strength. They knew that defeat was possible, but they also feared the future would never favour victory more than the present (Berghahn 1973, 2013, Herwig 1997: 11, 22, 37, 51, Ferguson 1999: 13). This 'rational pessimism' turned them into risk-takers.
The failure of deterrence was an immediate cause of the war. A deeper cause was the authoritarian regimes of the Central Powers and Russia, under which a few war advocates could decide the fate of millions in secret.
How the war was won: Needless slaughter?
Another myth characterises fighting in the Great War as a needless wasteful of life. In fact, there was no other way to defeat the enemy. Attrition was not a result of trench warfare. Also, casualties on both sides were heavier in the opening and closing stages (and were heavier still in World War II) when men fought in the open (Strachan 2003).
Attrition became a calculated strategy on both sides (French 1982, Bourne 2005, Herwig 1997). From the Allied standpoint, the rationality of attrition is not immediately clear. The French and British generally lost troops at a faster rate than the Germans. Based on that alone, the Allies could have expected to lose the war.
The forgotten margin that explains Allied victory was economic (Broadberry and Harrison 2005). This was a war of firepower, as well as manpower. Figure 1 shows the great advantage of the Allied great powers over the Central Powers in population and real GDP. When America joined the war and Russia left it, the Allied advantage declined in population but rose in production. On the basis of their advantage, as Figure 2 shows, the Allies produced far more munitions, including the offensive weaponry that finally broke the stalemate on the Western front.
Figure 1. Pre-war population and real GDP of the Great Powers: Allies, ratio to central powers
Source: Broadberry and Harrison (2005: 11). The figure counts Britain France, and either Russia (in 1914) or the USA (in 1918) against Germany and Austria-Hungary. All figures are based on 1913, because wartime changes are not known for all countries. GDP is measured in international dollars at 1990 prices.
Figure 2. Cumulative wartime production: Allies, ratio to Central Powers
Sources: War production from Adelman (1988: 45), except UK from Broadberry and Howlett (2005: 212) and Austria-Hungary from Schulze (2005: 88).
How the war was lost: The food weapon?
Hunger was decisive in the collapse of the German home front in 1918. Was Germany starved out of the war by Allied use of the food weapon? In Germany, this myth became prevalent and assumed historic significance in Hitler's words (cited by Collingham 2011: 37) of 1939:
"I need the Ukraine, so that no one is able to starve us again, like in the last war."
It is true that Germany imported 20‐25% of calories for human consumption before the war. Wartime imports were limited by an Allied blockade at sea and (via pressure on neutrals) on land. At the same time, German civilians suffered greatly: hunger-related mortality is estimated at around 750,000 (Davis and Engerman 2006: 204).
But decisions made in Berlin, not London, did the main damage to German food supplies. The decision to attack Germany's main food suppliers struck the first blow. In 1913, the German economy was more interlinked with future adversaries than allies. Britain, France, Italy, and Russia accounted for 36% of pre-war German trade. Britain alone provided more German trade than the 12% share of Austria‐Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire combined (Gartzke and Lupu 2012, Kramer 2013).
Gerd Hardach (1987) conjectured that the effects of the loss of trade were outweighed by Germany's war mobilisation. Mobilisation policies damaged food production in several ways (described by Feldman 1966). On the side of resources, mobilisation diverted young men, horses, and chemical fertilisers from agricultural use to the front line. Farmers' incentives to sell food were weakened when German industry was converted to war production and ceased to supply the countryside with manufactures. Government initiatives to hold down food prices for the consumer did further damage.
Because trade supplied at most one quarter of German calories, and German farmers the other three quarters, it is implausible to see the loss of trade as the primary factor. Germany's own war effort probably did more to undermine food supplies.
How the peace was made: Folly at Versailles?
Since Keynes (1920), many serious consequences have been ascribed to the treaty of Versailles. According to the financier and philanthropist George Soros (2014), for example, the French "insistence on reparations led to the rise of Hitler." Moreover, Soros continues:
"Angela Merkel's [similar] policies are giving rise to extremist movements in the rest of Europe."
The burdens on Germany arising from the peace treaty can be assessed ex ante and ex post. Ex post, there is hardly an issue. Germany actually paid less than one fifth of the 50 billion gold marks that were due (Marks 1978). From 1924, there was no net drain from the Germany economy because repayments were covered by American loans (Schuker 1988). Eventually, Hitler defaulted on both loans and reparations.
The ex-ante burden on Germany was certainly heavy, although comparable in magnitude with the public debts that France and Britain carried at the time (Ritschl 2005: 68-70). German governments could have covered most of it by accepting the treaty limits on military spending (Hantke and Spoerer 2010). Instead, they evaded it by means of a 'war of attrition' against foreign creditors.
The Allied pursuit of reparations was unwise and unnecessarily complicated Europe's postwar readjustment, but it is wrong to conclude that it radicalised German politics. The political extremism arising from the treaty was short-lived. In successive elections from 1920 through 1928, a growing majority of German votes went to moderate parties that supported constitutional government.
In fact, Weimar democracy's bad name is undeserved. It was the Great Depression that reawakened German nationalism and put Hitler in power (Van Riel and Schram 1993, King et al. 2008).
The history of the Great War has implications for today. Secretive, authoritarian regimes become dangerous when they fear the future. Deterrence matters. Trench warfare was terrible, but not uniquely so. It is total war that is terrible and total war cannot be done cheaply. The blockade of Germany provides one more case study of economic sanctions that have been less effective than believed by both perpetrators and victims. The treaty of Versailles, however unwise, was not a slow fuse for another war. It started a game of 'Can't Pay/Won't Pay' that typically ends peacefully, and would have done so in this case without the Great Depression.
Editors' note: This is the second in a series of Vox columns by leading economic historians on the First World War, which will be collected in a Vox eBook at the end of the year: "The Economics of the First World War", edited by Nicholas Crafts, Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor.
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Topics: Economic history Europe's nations and regions
Tags: Germany, WWI, Versailles treaty, reparations
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She-Hulk #1 (Comics Review)
Up until some time last year, hard to pin down exactly when, but I'm thinking middle of the year, I had no idea that She-Hulk even existed. For that matter, up until a handful of months before that, I had no idea that there was a Red Hulk. In fact, the only Hulk I've ever known about is Bruce Banner's plain-joe Hulk. Still, it was exciting to hear that Marvel was launching a new She-Hulk series for its All-New Marvel NOW! launch-wave, though my excitement was tempered by the fact that Charles Soule, a writer I don't like all that much and would prefer to avoid altogether, was on the writing duties for this.
I went in with an open mind because She-Hulk is a character that I am really interested in exploring more, but all the same, I ended up being disappointed. That too for the reasons I expected, and a few that I didn't expect. The big culprit here is the art, unfortunately, making this the second of Marvel's new series I've read this week that failed for me on the art level, and which has a passingly good story, more mediocre than anything. I frankly expected more out of this.
The one good thing about this issue is that it starts you off fresh. There are no long continuities or anything to get caught up with. You get everything you need to understand the character in this issue, and that makes this a pretty good debut issue for a new series, I find. Especially one in a season of #1s where the objective of such relaunches is to bring in new readers and offer them something different. She-Hulk definitely hits those check-marks. But the thing is that is not all to it, of course. The story needs to be good to keep people interested, to make those new readers stick with the series. And the same goes for the art. The art needs to do a lot of the heavy-lifting, because more than anything the art is going to be a major part of the tone of a new series I find.
And that's where She-Hulk #1 doesn't really work at all. The script is mediocre at best, incidentally. Expecting a promotion and a bonus because of all the hours that she put in during the last year, Jennifer Walters walks in to meet with the partners of the her law firm, and then is told that she isn't getting anything because she didn't do what she was really hired to do: use her superhero connections to bring in contracts and businesses for the firm. She is simply a tool for the firm to increase their business. She walks out, quits her job, takes on a freelance case that pits her against Tony Stark's legal team and that, as they say, is that.
Sure, she ends up getting on top, and a large part of the middle of the issue is no doubt driven by Charles Soule's own experience as a lawyer (IIRC, he sunlights as a lawyer in addition to being an extremely prolific comics writer), but none of it really resonated with me. The book is low on the action front. What little we get, is mostly off-screen or we only see teasers of it. The focus is all on Jennifer Walters rather than her superhero persona, a difficult thing to pull off narratively since visually she is She-Hulk. The script, because of that adverse focus, just seemed to banal to me. I mean, its kind of like watching an episode of Leverage but without the actual heist angle. Or reading a done-in-one issue of Daredevil when the hero helps someone out in his regular old persona rather than as a superhero.
I just had trouble connecting with the character throughout the issue and the script failed to hook me.
As for the art, we have Javier Pulido on pencils with Muntsa Vicente on colours and VC's Claytown Cowles with the lettering (and production). To be honest, the art didn't hook me at all either. And the big part of that is because the art lacks details. Its too simplistic. There is no depth to the art at all. A lot of people compare this comic to what Matt Fraction has done with Hawkeye and while I broadly agree that that's what Soule is going for, the art is certainly nowhere near on the same level. David Aja has done some great work on the art there, and Pulido just doesn't match up at all. And the colours, well, the colours are okay. Once again, its all about a lack of any depth, any nuance. I would have actually liked to have seen cover artist Kevin Wada tackle the art. I love that cover art.
I was expecting a lot out of this comic, but it just doesn't measure up. Maybe I'll read the second issue, but I'm not too fussed about it.
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