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The Correspondent | Book Review
Heart, healing, and connection await. On my 40th birthday, I treated myself to a visit to my local bookshop. I’d been seeing this book everywhere on social media, so I knew it was one readers couldn’t stop talking about. Despite knowing nothing about the story, I couldn’t resist bringing it home. It joined my growing…
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Where the Heart Should Be | Book Review
Coming-of-age, young love, and Irish history await. I read this novel in July of 2025, starting on a Saturday morning and turning the final page that same afternoon. Later, while reading more about the book, I discovered something that made me laugh. Where the Heart Should Be is marketed as a young adult novel aimed…
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Cutting for Stone | Book Review
Family complexities, medical stories, and deep Ethiopian history await. This book arrived in my life as a thank‑you gift from a colleague turned friend. She had loved it dearly and felt it was something I needed to experience too, aware that I found my way back to reading that year. It became the last book…
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The Midnight Carousel | Book Review
Shock, wonder, and a touch of darkness await. I chose this one to review next because it brought something entirely different to my reading year. It gripped me from the start with its dark mystery, yet beneath the shadows were threads of hope, love, and resilience that lingered long after I turned the final page.…
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The Island of Missing Trees | Book Review
Moments of beauty, love, and loss await. I went into this book knowing nothing about the story, though the acclaim on the cover made me quietly hopeful it would be good. Once I finished it, I found myself wanting the whole world to read it. I recommended it to my mom and a colleague, and…
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Anxious People | Book Review
Moments of laughter, tears, and shock await. This was my favourite book of 2024, out of the 15 I read that year. I devoured it in three days because the intrigue made it impossible to put down. This book arrived in my life as a birthday gift from my brother, one he had read, loved,…
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Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies | Book Review
Themes of friendship, reinvention, and food await. I’ve got a mountain of eBooks saved on my app, long tucked away. Whenever I’m between paperbacks, I scroll through my digital stash and pick whatever’s next in line. I saved it ages ago, drawn in by the book’s design and its name, but only now did it…