97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled…
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Book Review: The Unhoneymooners
Thank you to the lovely team at Little Brown’s Piatkus for sending me a copy of one of my most highly anticipated reads of 2019, The Unhoneymooners. You truly do…
Book Review: The Hating Game
I received a copy of Sally Thorne’s hilarious The Hating Game when it was published many moons ago by Piatkus in the UK. However, be it that I was simply busy with…
Book Review: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows like Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Russell Howard’s Stand…
Book Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette Fox has vanished. When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for…
Book Review: Convenience Store Woman
She found sanctuary in a supermarket. Now, she’s about to lose it. Keiko isn’t normal. At school and university people find her odd, and her family worries she will never…
Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles…
Book Review: The Garden of Small Beginnings
Thank you to Little, Brown for sneaking in one last proof in 2017. Abbi Waxman’s The Garden of Small Beginnings publishes on 22nd February 2018. In the three years since…
Book Review: Sweetpea
Thank you to Harlequin UK for granting me a copy of C.J. Skuse’s Sweetpea via NetGalley in exchange for a review. When she was good, she was very, very good. When she…