Self Help5 reviews Edward Docx Picador, 2008 A seriously good - posiibly great - novel + Dostoyevskian + Honest with Me + A Magnificent Effort             Love Life7 reviews Ray Kluun St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 If you want to cry this book is for you + A book with the power to make you feel + Painfully honest I borrowed this book from the library just on chance alone. I have never heard of it before but just grabbed a random book off the shelf. I plan to purchase this book! I enjoyed it thouroghly from beginning to it's heart wrenching end. I think I cried for the last 30 pages of the book. ...             The Missing Person's Guide to Love Susanna Jones Picador, 2008 Isabel, Owen and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace - an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her home town in the north of England for Owen's funeral. She hadn't seen him since they recklessly burned down the local supermarket together; he was sent to prison and she, just shy of her 18th ...             When We Were Romans: A Novel21 reviews Matthew Kneale Nan A. Talese, 2008 Conversation with a precocious child + Heartbreaking but humorous at times + Moving tale of how mental illness affects one family + Authentic glimpse of a child's mind             The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox56 reviews Maggie O'Farrell Headline Review, 2007 Brilliantly written in a style that puts you inside Esme's character. + A HAUNTING FAMILY DRAMA + Quick Read from Heavy Subject Matter The story intrigued me from it's description. However, the writer's choice to style the narrative as she did, made me FEEL the characters, especially Esme Lennox.             Child 44143 reviews Tom Rob Smith Grand Central Publishing, 2008 Child 44 + A Young Novelist Delivers a Novelistic Masterpiece--Child 44 + Well Crafted Environment of Soviet Russia + Gave it a second chance + Makes Me Glad To Be An American             The Outcast14 reviews Sadie Jones Chatto and Windus, 2008 10 stars... + Disturbing portrait of denial + Little boy lost + A Great Debut Novel + A remarkable and accomplished first novel             This Charming Man: A Novel58 reviews Marian Keyes William Morrow, 2008 Another success for Marian Keyes... Kudos for this fantastic novel. I loved it! + Couldn't put it down! + Witty and real + Marian Keyes is superb but this is by far not her best             The Love of My Life1 review Louise Douglas Macmillan, 2008 Love of my Life - a beautiful love story There are two love stories in this book which is mainly set in a small seaside resort in the North of England. The first real love story is between Olivia and her beloved husband Luca. They have been friends since childhood and their friendship develops into a secret teenage romance and then into a ...             Before I Die46 reviews Jenny Downham David Fickling Books, 2007 Be prepared to cry for hours!! + A reluctant reader's point of view + Good Book Tessa is a cancer patient, whom the doctors could no longer find a cure. Before she breathe her last, she wrote up a list of things to do (eg. sex, break the law, drugs etc). The novel was written with a fluent flow, completely in a teenager's perspective. I finished it in a couple of hours, ...             The Crow Road39 reviews Iain Banks MacAdam/Cage, 2008 I love re-reading this book. + Masterful + Discovering a New Writer - "The Crow Road" by Ian Banks + Masterwork + Existential Dilemmas, with Laughs             Rebecca491 reviews Daphne Du Maurier Harper Paperbacks, 1997 Great suspense novel + Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley again... + Details, details, details + Psychologically spooky             Salmon Fishing in the Yemen20 reviews "It was such fun to be going off to fish for our country." + Intelligent, funny and hugely entertaining - what a debut ! + Writing Style Reminds Me of Kingsley Amis -- Another Oxford Master + I loved this book             This Charming Man: A Novel58 reviews Marian Keyes William Morrow, 2008 Another success for Marian Keyes... Kudos for this fantastic novel. I loved it! + Couldn't put it down! + Witty and real + Marian Keyes is superb but this is by far not her best             The Crow Road39 reviews Iain Banks MacAdam/Cage, 2008 I love re-reading this book. + Masterful + Discovering a New Writer - "The Crow Road" by Ian Banks + Masterwork + Existential Dilemmas, with Laughs             When We Were Romans: A Novel21 reviews Matthew Kneale Nan A. Talese, 2008 Conversation with a precocious child + Heartbreaking but humorous at times + Moving tale of how mental illness affects one family + Authentic glimpse of a child's mind             The Outcast14 reviews Sadie Jones Chatto and Windus, 2008 10 stars... + Disturbing portrait of denial + Little boy lost + A Great Debut Novel + A remarkable and accomplished first novel             Self Help5 reviews Edward Docx Picador, 2008 A seriously good - posiibly great - novel + Dostoyevskian + Honest with Me + A Magnificent Effort             Salmon Fishing in the Yemen20 reviews "It was such fun to be going off to fish for our country." + Intelligent, funny and hugely entertaining - what a debut ! + Writing Style Reminds Me of Kingsley Amis -- Another Oxford Master + I loved this book             The Love of My Life1 review Louise Douglas Macmillan, 2008 Love of my Life - a beautiful love story There are two love stories in this book which is mainly set in a small seaside resort in the North of England. The first real love story is between Olivia and her beloved husband Luca. They have been friends since childhood and their friendship develops into a secret teenage romance and then into a ...