Sunset: The instant Sunday Times bestseller

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A sad girl book that will also warm those frosty corners of a cold dark heart. One for fans of Meg Mason, Eleanor Oliphant and Carless by Kirsty Capes (basically all of my favourite authors & books ever). Into the Wild & Fire and Ice • Forest of Secrets & Rising Storm • A Dangerous Path & The Darkest Hour • Midnight & Moonrise • Dawn & Starlight • Twilight & Sunset Emily Scuderi, Age 12 "This is the best book series in the world! I don't know what I would be reading if I hadn't read 'Into the Wild'! NEVER stop writing Erin Hunter! :0)"

A narrative full of emotive prose, exploring grief and how it creeps into every inch of your life - from your thoughts, emotions, daily tasks etc - life is never quite the same. A truly visceral reflection on grief that genuinely was like nothing I have ever read, I could not get enough of this one and cannot recommend this one enough (TW's to be mindful of). I also loved the way Cave portrays and discusses things like depression, death, sex, menstruations, and other things that are usually sensationalised or romanticised or completely glossed over. In addition, Ruth’s narrative is full of piercing observations about other people or her own life. I also found that those references to ‘real’ places (such as Costa, Tesco, WHSmith) made Ruth’s London all the more vivid. Ruth and Hannah have an unbreakable sisterly bond. They grew up in a challenging family environment with parents who partied and chased their creative (yet also failing) dreams instead of parenting. Hannah and Ruth are left to their own devices most of the time leaving Hannah to take on the motherly role. After Sunset: We Need to Talk • After Sunset: The Right Choice? • Beyond the Code: Brightspirit's Mercy • The Elders' Concern • Spottedleaf's Honest Answer • The Clans Decide • Why is Jaypaw Blind? • Tigerstar: Heart of Evil? • The Curtain Falls: Choosing Which Cats Would Die • Unhappily Ever After? Ending the Doomed Romances • The Truth About Midnight • The Death of Bright Stream • The Longest Night • The Disappearing Herbs • A Fear of Fire • The Hidden Prophecy SUNSET BOULEVARD is a much loved musical based on the 1950’s Billy Wilder film of the same name. It features a score including With One Look, As If We Never Said Goodbye and The Perfect Year.

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This book is heavy on grief and how different people perceive and deal with grief. It has a very strong sibling/sisterly dynamic and was really refreshing to read about. It also focuses on mental health and has vast character growth. Most importantly, there is song, ringing out through the natural rustle of wind and bird and harvest, threatening to transform this drama into a musical, that purest of cinematic fantasias (no surprise that Davies cites Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as inspirational). When the Guthrie family move house to accommodate their ever expanding brood, they do so to the strains of Wayfaring Stranger hauntingly sung by Jennifer John. On her wedding night, Chris performs a keening rendition of Flowers of the Forest, the music of which is woven into the very fabric of Grassic Gibbon’s text. Later, Ewan (Kevin Guthrie) sings a few line of Robert Burns’s The Lass That Made the Bed to Me, another song taken directly from the rhapsodic sacred source. Throughout, Davies’s aim remains true. He is perhaps the only film-maker in the world who could stage a tipsy rendition of Ladies of Spain without the slightest hint of a Spielberg reference (it wouldn’t surprise me if he’d never seen Jaws).

Lost Stars • The Silent Thaw • Veil of Shadows • Darkness Within • The Place of No Stars • A Light in the Mist Sometimes the writer focuses on certain topics for a split second only to leave them be right after: Ruth would look at a woman and wonder how many times she had s*x. Ruth would look at a couple and wonder if she's ever gonna be content in a relationship. All legit thoughts, but they're never explored. Just thrown out there to get some air. Again, there's no aim to them. More so, the writer is OBSESSED with people's s*x life to the point it becomes voyeurism. Famed movie star Norma Desmond ( Scherzinger) has been cast out of the Hollywood limelight. Living in a suffocating world of dreams, memories and regrets, a chance encounter with screenwriter Joe Gillis may be her only hope — unless their volatile affair destroys them both…

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I went into Sunset having no idea what it was about, I requested it on a whim as it was an audiobook and I wanted something to listen to. I got accepted on Friday and finished listening on Saturday. I listened non-stop Saturday for 9 hours straight - I literally couldn’t stop listening. Budem úprimná, do tejto knihy som šla naslepo s tým, že som opäť vo svojej Harry Potter fáze a túto napísala herečka, ktorá hrala Lavender Brown, tak jej dám šancu.