

Jessica Watson
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Betty - Tiffany McDaniel
Having spent about a year being sat on my book trolley, I don’t know why I decided now was the time to finally read Betty. Perhaps I wanted
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Jessica Watson
May 29, 20223 min read
Perfume - Patrick Süskind
I had never heard of this book until it was picked as my book club’s read for May. I immediately fell in love with the cover, as well as...
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Jessica Watson
May 29, 20222 min read
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
I had never heard of this book before but after listening to Scarlett Curtis talk so excitedly and positively about the book on the...
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Jessica Watson
May 29, 20222 min read
Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
I’ve now read all of Sally Rooney’s novels apart from Conversations With Friends and with the new television adaptation hitting our...
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Jessica Watson
May 29, 20222 min read
Lesson in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
I had heard so many great things about this book before it was published here in the UK, and with the Waterstones special edition being...
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Jessica Watson
May 29, 20222 min read
Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart
Since reading Shuggie Bain, I have been waiting very impatiently for Douglas Stuart's next book so as soon as Young Mungo was released, I...
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Jessica Watson
May 29, 20222 min read
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier
Having fallen in love with Du Maurier and her most well-known novel, Rebecca, earlier last year, I have been desperate to read her other...
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Jessica Watson
May 4, 20222 min read
Blindness - Jose Samingo
Blindness was a book I had never even heard of before it was picked as the April read for my book club. Written by Portuguese author,...
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Jessica Watson
May 4, 20222 min read
The No-Show - Beth O'Leary
It was the one we’ve all been waiting for and I was lucky enough to read an exclusive proof copy of the most highly anticipated reads of...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20222 min read
The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
So I’m sure if you’re on Bookstagram, you must have seen her most recent book The Lying Life of Adults which was published last year and...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton
So in my mission to read the majority of the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction nominees before the winner is announced this summer, I...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20222 min read
Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield
This is a book that I’ve seen lurking around social media for so long now as part of the lead up to its publication earlier in March. Now...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Saltwater - Jessica Andrews
‘It is not enough to be pretty and I am not clever enough and it is not enough to be clever and I am not pretty enough.’ Saltwater is a...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Tall Bones - Anna Bailey
I had no intention of reading this until I saw the girls over at Book Reccos were reading it and then the book was popping up on all my...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20222 min read
One Italian Summer - Rebecca Serle
I was kindly gifted an advanced copy of this beautiful book by Rebecca Serle from Quercus so first of all a huge thank you to Quercus for...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Impossible - Sarah Lotz
I was lucky enough to be sent a beautiful advanced copy of Impossible by Sarah Lotz, together with some delicious treats, so huge...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
First of all, thank you so much to 4th Estate Books for my advanced copy of ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ which is actually out in the UK...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
Ahhh the book that EVERYONE on TikTok is reading, posting about and recommending. If you’re on TikTok, you would no doubt have seen this...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak
I read my first Elif Shafak novel in 2020 and since then, I’ve been on a mission to collect (and read) all her books because I guess, I...
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Jessica Watson
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan
So just like I said in my review of The Bell Jar, there’s just something I love about complicated, unnerving female leads in a book and...
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