THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE
Matt Haig
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her and she decides to visit the property, arriving in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
The surrogate mother
Freida McFadden
Abby wants a baby more than anything else in the world. But after years and years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not going to be part of her future. That is, until her personal assistant, Monica, makes the ultimate generous offer to serve as a surrogate. It’s an offer that will make all of Abby’s dreams come true. But soon, strange things start happening. And it turns out Monica isn’t who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby’s child has an unspeakable secret. And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
THE LAND IN WINTER
Andrew Miller
December 1962. Local doctor, Eric Parry, begins his day, mulling secrets and doing his rounds while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He’s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm he bought and that is already faltering. There is affection – if not always love – in both homes. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards – a true winter, the harshest in living memory – the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel. Where do you hide when you can’t leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?
THE GOD OF THE WOODS
Liz Moore
When their 13-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laars family. They’re cold, rich people. They own the camp. And it’s happened to them before. Fifteen years ago their little boy, Bear, vanished without a trace. Two children lost to the same wilderness. Is it a tragedy … or a crime?
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