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15 pts
Total pts - 910
It's New Year's Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh's best postcodes. It's a moment for old friends to set the past to rights - and move on. The night sky is alive with fireworks and the champagne is flowing. But the celebration fails to materialize. Because someone at this party is going to die tonight.
pickSadie Roper moves back to London. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school. Next, she's going to get back the criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. Nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming, her daughter hasn't made any friends yet and the mothers are as competitive as their children. Sadie finds herself on the outside. Julia, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie.
I left the house in such a hurry today that I forgot to bring “Saving Justice” with me. Luckily, y‘know, I have a whole building of backups to have chosen from for a lunchtime read, so I grabbed this one. #theliesyoutold #harriettyce
pickThis book kept my interest but wow, the characters were all very unlikeable, and can a group of people really have so many things messed up in their lives? Alison is a lawyer who takes on a murder case, but when she‘s not working, she drinks too much, has an affair and is not the best mother or wife. #bloodorange #harriettyce
Harriet Tyce is a gripping storyteller whose unreliable narrator and toxic friendship, Sylvia and Tess, have secrets and lies from the past. Sylvia is having a court case and she is bound and determined to become a Crown Court judge. 1y