Mrs England: The award-winning Sunday Times bestseller from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award

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Spoilers: There would have been a great storyline had Nurse May actually fallen deeper for Mr Booth, who had just married and was expecting a child with another woman, which at one point I was sure that’s where it was heading, that unfortunately ended abruptly.

Mrs England - Stacey Halls

We follow their present whilst their disturbing stories becomes apparent as both women grow from under their subversive and controlling past (and present).These poems are deftly rendered and musical, featuring flashes of contrasting worlds – London locales and the Congo basin, the North and the Zambezi River – and disarming, idiosyncratic phrases like “The mind is some next ends”.

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When I’m most in need of joy, I turn to crime fiction, and everyone who loves crime fiction as much as I do will understand why. In Katherine Heiny’s brilliant Early Morning Riser, good-hearted Jane has to cope with a husband so generous that he has slept with every woman in town.

With her previous two novels, The Familiars and The Foundling, Stacey Halls proved that she’s an author with a unique talent for writing engrossing and atmospheric historical fiction centered around female protagonists haunted by complicated pasts. It begins in the Summer of 1904, with Ruby looking after a young girl, whose parents enjoy a prosperous life in Edwardian London. Her first position did not last long because she couldn't leave England for America with this family. Its wasn't dark or disturbing like her other novels, the characters didn't really make any impact on me and by the end I was glad to have finished with the lot of them. I did question halfway into the book about a certain person, so it didn’t come as no surprise when I was proved right, however……why.