Review: The Miller Women - Kelli Hawkins - April 2024 This book I had originally gotten from Netgalley, but since it was a "read on Netgalley Shelf" I didn't get a chance to read it before it expired. So I went onto the Libby app and downloaded it from the library. I had previously read Kelli's book Apartment 303 and loved it so was excited with this book, especially with the tagline of murder running in the family. I have to admit though that this book was quite a slow burn and in parts, I had to push my way through the story but in the ending, there were a few OMG twists that made up for the slow burn of the story and I loved all the little connections and six degrees of separation that the main characters had with one another. The Miller Women focuses on the stories of the three generations of Miller Women and three generations of Ross Women on the side and how their stories interweave with one another. We have our matriarchs, Joyce Miller and Trish Hopkins, then t...

She, You, I Sally Keeble Publication date: January 11th 2023 Genres: Adult, Contemporary An emotional page-turner of a story about a family torn apart by the legacy of war that asks the question: what happens to the hurt we can’t forget? When Skye Stanhope returns to her grandmother’s childhood home, she’s searching for the roots of her life story. Why her tough-minded granny ran away to war. And why her brilliant mother died. Behind the women’s successes, lies deep trauma. As Skye strips away the layers of secrecy, she confronts their inner torments: forces that bound the women together, but also tore them apart. It’s a journey from a poverty-stricken tenement block to an airbase in wartime Suffolk, through boom-time London to a coffee cart beside the sea. Woven into the women’s lives is Tseng Hsiao Ling, a feisty, enigmatic seamstress whose fortunes become inextricably linked with theirs. It’s a sweeping tale of love, war and family secrets over three generations. Throu...