Best for: Fans of Liane Moriarty’s writing. In a nutshell: CN for book and review: Disordered Eating The Casey family – three brothers and their wives and kids – are at a dinner party when it seems as though a few secrets are about to be spilled. We immediately go back six months in time to see what has led to this. Worth quoting: “As a skinny, knock-kneed eight-year-old, she knew that too much bread and butter would make her fat – and far was […]

Best for: Those looking for an interesting read that’s a bit longer than one might expect from fiction targeted at women. In a nutshell: Amy’s husband Hugh wants a six-month break. Worth quoting: I studied her avidly, keen to know how other people managed the tricky, tricky business of being a woman. Why I chose it: Airport purchase. Remember airports? Review: I bought this book back when known cases of COVID-19 were mostly limited to Asia. I flew from the UK to the US to […]