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I am currently reading Equilibrium by Evie Woolmore
I am about half-way through this book and despite my fear that this wouldn’t be for me. I am really enjoying it. The stage act of the mediums in the early twentieth century is fascinating and I have got caught up in trying to work out what happened to Dacre, Lady Amelia’s brother. This is a fantastic bargain at 99p on Amazon.co.uk
Epiphany and Martha are sisters with a stage mediumship act in Edwardian London. When they are asked to give a private spiritualist reading at the home of Lady Adelia Lyward to find out the truth about her brother’s death, Martha must face up to her past. For two years ago, her affair with Lord Rafe Lyward ended in pregnant disgrace, and her attempted suicide in the River Thames. But there is more at stake than Martha’s anonymous return, for Epiphany bears the burden of restoring the equilibrium, not just to the Lywards but to her sister and ultimately to herself.
The Historical Novel Society review “recommends “Equilibrium” to readers who enjoy historical fiction with spiritualist influences.” Amazon
Find more about the other books Evie Woolmore has written here
I have just finished The Bridesmaid by Jenny Scotti which features the murder of a 16 girl in an English village populated by the worst kind of villagers
Click on the cover to read my review
Next I plan to read The Last Boat by John F. Hanley. This book is based in Jersey at the time of the German Occupation and follows on from his first book Against the Tide.
Read a little bit more about these books and the author by clicking on the book cover
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Cleopatra Loves Books 
I am currently reading Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant. I’m just a few pages in as I snatched a couple of minutes of my lunchbreak yesterday to read, but so far so good!
I recently finished The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell. I picked it up because I adore 1920s America and murder mysteries, so two in one was too tempting! I enjoyed it for the most part, at times it was truly intriguing and the sense of character of the narrator was great, but ultimately I found it unsatisfying, mostly because I couldn’t make head nor tail of the ending! There were too many loose ends, and I felt that the author had gone for mystifyingly vague but ended up with annoyingly uneded.
I have Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes next on my reading table – I came across a flurry of reviews over the summer, and thought it sounded interesting!
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I have read Under Your Skin, really enjoyed it. I do want to read The Other Typist but I really hate books that loose you at the end so maybe not… Thanks for sharing your reads.
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I thought that I might have just missed something, but my sister in law read it too and had the same experience. I read that they’ve commissioned a movie adaptation, so maybe they’ll think up an ending for it!
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An ending is always good!….
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The Equilibrium looks interesting – I like that cover! Looking forward to your review on that one.
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Equilibrium is proving to be a surprise find. I’m loving the historical part including the way mediums operated at the turn of the 20th Century….and the cover is beautiful and I do love a good cover.
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This is my junk
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Sounds like you’ve got a good and different selection of reads this week. I hope you enjoy them all 🙂
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Thanks Chrissi, You are right one historical, one crime and one action all in one post – truly eclectic this week!
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