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The Appeal by Janice Hallett

January 21, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

An amateur theater group is preparing their production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons when the director and leading lady receive devastating news: their 2-year-old granddaughter has a rare and deadly form of cancer. Told by their doctor that an promising treatment is available, they launch a fundraising effort to pay for it. The rest of the theater troupe goes all in, including several of the director’s family members and friends, and a group of nurses at the local hospital. Alongside rehearsals for the play, […]

Charity

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

April 29, 2022 by Pooja 2 Comments

Poppy, the two-year-old granddaughter of the Haywoods, is diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, the whole community rallies around them to raise money for her treatment. But not all is as it seems in this little town, and when someone turns up dead on the night of the Fairway Players’ dress rehearsal, the truth must be uncovered. I picked up this book because someone here recommended it (thank you!) and because it’s been a while since I read a good epistolary novel. Certainly I’ve never […]

A Do-It-Yourself Mystery.

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

January 26, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

This was a pretty unique reading experience! I picked it up because of the pretty cover (the American one is shit, so yes I did buy it from the UK) and because it sad ‘Sunday Times Bestseller’ on it, and it’s a mystery. I am basic. (In my defense, the last time I did all of that, I ended up with The Thursday Murder Club, which everyone who loves mysteries should read immediately.) For all y’all Americans, the appeal in question is not a legal […]

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