Blurb ‘The first page of my sister’s diary was a picture of Frances Farmer, facing a drawing of Ophelia. My sister’s psychic accomplices were all tragic figures…’ Emma Imrie was a Plath-obsessed, self-taught teenage musician dreaming of fame, from a remote village on the Isle of Wight. She found it too, briefly becoming a star … Continue reading Dead Rock Stars by Guy Mankowski
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Liar by Lesley Pearse
My thanks to Megan Denholm at ED Public Relations for sending me an advance copy of Liar. The decision to read was my own, and this review forms my honest opinion. Blurb In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper.Until … Continue reading Liar by Lesley Pearse
Missing the London Life
For five wonderfully cosmopolitan years I lived and worked in London. I’ll be honest, I initially hated it. I seemed to spend far too much time in close proximity to stranger’s armpits on trains and everything cost at least three times more than it did at home. Little by little though, I fell in love … Continue reading Missing the London Life