Advantages: Plenty of detail to bring the First World War to life for readers Disadvantages: The latter period is much weaker in its sense of detail and time.
Iris and Grace
Iris is old and frail. Her body and her mind challenge her every day. She’s increasingly forgetful, she can’t remember the names of the grandchildren or things around her and her heart is a cause of concern for her doctors. Her life is ...
Advantages: It's set in India and it's historically well researched Disadvantages: The lack of different 'voices' and the irritating children
...Gulliver never had so much trouble
India Dark is the story of a troupe of Australian juvenile entertainers who go on tour in the Far East back in 1909-1910. Percival’s Liliputian Opera Company – known as the ‘Liliputians - is the creation of Mr Arthu ...
...Jacob Noah spent three years "hiding in a hole in a bog" from the Nazis. When he emerged from his hiding place after the war, his father, mother and brother were dead and their shoe shop had been turned into an Aryan Bookshop. Over the next thirty fiv ...
Advantages: Fabulous story, great characters! Disadvantages: The ending is a little abrupt and could do with an epilogue
Sinead Moriarty- In my Sisters Shoes
The Author
I had never heard of Sinead Moriarty until I bought this book, which I only bought because I thought it sounded good in the blurb. But since looking Moriarty up for a little insight into her, she i ...
...read The Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty and absolutely loved it so it was not surprising that I could not wait to get my hands on another of her books. The one I chose was In My Sister's Shoes which, in my opinion was even better. It was the sor ...
