I was really pleased to be asked by NetGalley to review this book
What a beautifully written story, secrets, mystery and emotion. We are taken to Norway during war time. The author describes the landscapes evocatively and the reader is transported there. Great characters, with love and loss at this time. Emotional so have a box of tissues at hand there will be tears.
Really recommended read which will be up there in the top ten this summer and due for publication June 18th 2026.
I love Great Expectations and work in a school so this is widely read. I was pleased when NetGalley asked me to review.
Miss Haversham is a character who I always thought it would be good to know this lady before the jiting at the alter, the bereavement of this by being surrounded by the decaying wedding breakfast in the wedding dress she was to be married in.
Ellie Machray has interpreted this bitter and twisted lady as we know (and who could blame her at this time) into an ambious lady with desire but living in a mans world during the victorian era. The story highlights the deep betrayal of Compeyson. This is a woman who has to conform to society or she could end up on the streets. Yet she is jilted.
I was worried this story would seem false and out of kiter with Dickens classic but this is a trully atmospheric gothic story that could have been told by the man himself.
A really thought provoking story and on a different slant and good interpretation
Really recommended and due for publication on May 7th 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this well researched and well written book.
This is the story of two young girls growing up in rural Kenya living in a rural area their lives are perfect until the Mau Mau revolution .This is a remarkable friendship but this all changes and these two girls are forced apart.
The author writes about this time with honesty, brutality, emotion and above all friendship.
Beautifully written and recommended read
Due for publication Jun 18th 2026
