Crooked Pieces - Sarah Grazebrook

London, 1905. Maggie’s new position as a maid lifts her from East End poverty and brings her into the world of the suffragettes, in particular the Pankhursts—icons for a generation of women in search of equality and the right to vote. Before long her life takes another exciting turn when she begins ‘walking out’ with a young police officer, Fred Thorpe. 

As Maggie becomes drawn into an increasingly militant battle with the authorities, she is torn between her loyalty to the man she loves and her passionate belief in the cause for which she is fighting. Is Maggie prepared to sacrifice her one chance of happiness for the sake of a future she may never see?

My Rating 5/5 Loved this book (Fiction)

The Drowning Girl – Margaret Leroy

'She's my daughter, but in some weird way I feel she isn't really my child'.

Young single mum Grace is drowning. Her little girl Sylvie is distant, troubled and prone to violent tantrums which the child psychiatrists blame on Grace. But Grace knows there's something more to what's happening to Sylvie. 

There has to be. 

Travelling from the London suburbs to the west coast of Ireland, Grace and Sylvie embark on a journey of shocking discovery, forcing Grace to question everything she believes in and changing both their lives forever.

My Rating 5/5 Loved This Book (Fiction)

Not the sort of book that I would normally read had I known what it was about. (I only go by the front cover I never read the back as I find it spoils the book for me) It was the haunting image and the question on the cover  - ”What if there was something deeply wrong with your child, and nobody believed you?” That caught my eye.

I could not put this book down. I found it a fascinating read.