The Poison TreeI have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going. I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened, but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to lose. In the sweltering summer of 1997, strait laced, straight A student Karen met Biba a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. She was quickly drawn into Biba's world, and for a while

She is asking herself how she could have been foolish enough to let yet another man hurt her like this

It is also a gripping account of howdespite the cruelest losseshumanity may abide and individual families can heal Jean Hegland

But just as the great war comes to an end

Is it coincidence

FERN BRADY

and with something deadly―something hungry―stalking the night

Damon Galgut's masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys

or tragedy for them both

but Alvie's discovering what happens when you steal your twin's identity

The Handley brood must then move in with Myra in Buckinghamshire

At liberty to walk the streets

PARTISANS While Titos rebel forces resist occupation