A very satisfying follow-up to Looking for JJ - the tension is palpable and the story utterly gripping. (I actually missed my train because I was so engrossed.) An unflinching but compassionate depiction of coming to terms with the past. The various elements are skilfully woven together and the e...
Really very interesting. Quite tense and very dark!Looking For JJ by Anne Cassidy was first published in 2004. But for a book more than 10 years old, I felt like Looking For JJ felt very much important and relevant to the events today. It was thought-provoking and gripping and I felt like it had ...
Tossing and turning in her old bed, she woke up at 0.48, 2.37 and 5.44. At ten to six she got up and went to the toilet. When she came back she looked at the wrinkled bedding and decided that there was no point trying to sleep any more. She got her laptop out and went on her blog Morpho. She read...
She waited until she heard Anna’s bedroom door close. The house was quiet and she padded downstairs for a hot drink. She took it back up to her room and got into bed with her laptop. She spent some time going on Facebook and visiting some blogs she liked. She wrote some things on her own blog Mor...
She was in a coffee bar on Holloway Road. She had a drink in front of her which she hadn’t touched. While she was waiting she looked, for the hundredth time, at the postcard that had been sent to her almost two weeks before. Her eyes travelled across it. The picture was the kind you might see on ...
Rose was about to call for a cab when the doorbell rang. It was almost nine o’clock. Joshua looked edgy and told Rose to stay where she was and he went downstairs. She saw him put the chain on and open the door slowly. He had an exchange with someone then he took the chain off and pulled the door...