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Alone in Berlin. No one is alone, but it is set in Berlin...

Advantages: Brilliant characterisation, evocative descriptions, fascinating backstory, uplifting testimony
Disadvantages: May leave pulp-thriller readers disappointed

Synopsis Otto and Elise Quangel receive the letter all parents of soldiers fear, their son has been killed on the western front, fighting for Germany against the Allied forces. Reeling from shock, and awakened to the remorselessly consuming Nazi wa ...

ben-lloyd 27.10.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada

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Alone not just in Berlin but anywhere

Advantages: Very good story telling
Disadvantages: Rather disturbing what humans will do to each other

Now I started to read this book when I took my students out to Ghana on our recent trip, this will tell you how long it's taken me to complete reading the book!! It didn't take a long time because it was a bad book that I couldn't read it was just that it ...

bbicuk01 08.08.2012 · Read full review
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Turning Back The Clock

Advantages: Light comedy, good summer read.
Disadvantages: not a lot of plot involved.

Have you ever been in the situation where you wanted to wish yourself back to a point in your life that was full of hope, before it all went pear-shaped? ***The Background*** Jenny Colgan is a popular writer from a town called Prestwick in the south ...

belfin 23.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Do You Remember The First Time? - Jenny Colgan

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Unforgettable? No!

Advantages: Book blurb reads well.
Disadvantages: Disappointing, very forgettable storyline

♥Review of the novel 'Do You Remember the First Time?' By Jenny Colgan♥ This novel is the fifth by Jenny Colgan. Her previous novels, Amanda's Wedding, Talking to Addison, Looking for Andrew McCarthy and Working Wonders, have all been w ...

brittle1906 31.05.2008 · Read full review
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Do YOU remember YOUR first time?!

Advantages: Very easy to read
Disadvantages: Can't put it down once you start!

...Jenny Colgan is a great author and has written many novels and short stories, including Amanda’s Wedding, Talking to Addison and Girl’s Night In. Do You Remember The First Time? Is a very funny and charming story of a 32-year old woman called Flora wh ...

baby_uk 08.04.2005 · Read full review
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