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Nightingale Point
Nightingale Point | Luan Goldie
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THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK A sharp, funny, wonderful writer Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People Compelling...finely crafted, compassionate Guardian
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emmaturi
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I really liked this book. I wasn't excepting that incident at all! I liked the before, during and after sections! #books

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Cinfhen
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This book surprised me. I had no idea where the story was going. Told from multiple POVs, we come to know a group of residents who live in Nightingale Point, a low income housing estate. The book focuses on events before, during and after a tragedy strikes the community. I was surprised this was longlisted for The Women‘s Prize as this book felt more YA to me. Thank you for sending it my way @trishb 💕😘 Solid 3 star

Cinfhen Now im ready to start HVR @Reviewsbylola 4y
squirrelbrain I really liked this one, but also was surprised that it was on the longlist. Probably in the top half of the list for me, but it just didn‘t feel like ‘prize‘ material. 😳 4y
charl08 I think they like to throw in some books that are by authors with promise, but not necessarily quite there yet. This one has stuck with me, usually a sign of something powerful. (As I have a terrible memory) @squirrelbrain 4y
Cinfhen I agree @charl08 this book showed promise / I think I remember you mentioned the prize comment too @squirrelbrain but I remember being surprised in previous years as well 4y
TrishB Agree with all of the above! Thought she had a good grasp of emotions/PTSD and look forward to seeing what she writes next. 4y
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Cinfhen
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Feeling this one ....thanks @TrishB

TrishB Yay 😁 I really enjoyed it. 4y
Cathythoughts I have this on kindle 👍🏻 looking forward to it 4y
Reviewsbylola This one isn‘t familiar to me so I‘ll be waiting to see what you think of it! 4y
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Cinfhen It took a turn I really wasn‘t expecting @Reviewsbylola @TrishB @Cathythoughts I‘m liking it so far 4y
emmaturi I liked it! Just read it this weekend! 4y
JennyM I just read and enjoyed this. And I didn‘t see it coming either! Hope you keep liking it 😊 (edited) 4y
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JennyM
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Such a lovely story. Both sad and heartwarming. I think a lot of people will enjoy it.

Cathythoughts Oh good !! Is that a blanket in the background? If so I have the same one in grey ❤️👍🏻 4y
JennyM @Cathythoughts I think you‘ll enjoy, Cathy. Yep...it‘s my blanket and I need it at the minute as it‘s chilly here 🥶 😘 4y
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JennyM
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A great start to this one - thanks for nudging me to pick it up @TrishB 😘

TrishB Enjoy ♥️🤞🏻 4y
Cathythoughts I‘m looking forward to this one 4y
JennyM @Cathythoughts @trishb it‘s really good. About a quarter in and what‘s happening is not what I expected! (edited) 4y
emmaturi I will be reading it this month too 4y
JennyM @emmaturi hope you enjoy it as much as I am. I think it might break my heart a bit ♥️ 4y
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TrishB
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A bargain folks 😁👍🏻

Cathythoughts Thankyou 😘 4y
squirrelbrain Was just looking to see if any had posted this! It‘s a good one @Cathythoughts ! 4y
Cathythoughts @squirrelbrain Thanks Helen ! Yes , I‘ve only seen good reviews on Litsy 👍🏻❤️ 4y
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TrishB @squirrelbrain I checked first too 👍🏻 we keep plugging this book! @Cathythoughts (edited) 4y
MicheleinPhilly And I just bought it the other day because I thought it was a steal at 2.99. Oh well. 4y
TrishB @MicheleinPhilly I hate when I do that! But 2.99 is still good 👍🏻 4y
MicheleinPhilly Exactly. And a slightly larger charitable contribution using the smile.amazon site. 4y
CarolynM Not such a good price here, but stacking for future reference. 4y
TrishB @CarolynM Australian books are never a good price here either! 4y
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emmaturi
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Another trip to the library yesterday got me these two. I am a bit behind on my library reads, I still have to read the last two I have. #tbr

Cathythoughts Tagged book sounds great 👍🏻 5y
squirrelbrain I loved Nightingale Point! I wanted to read A Thousand Ships too (they‘re both on the Women‘s Prize for Fiction) but the library closed.... 4y
emmaturi Yes I have heard only good things about it! @Cathythoughts 4y
emmaturi It was horrible when we had the libraries closed here. I keep getting books in case it closes again. All seems good in Switzerland but you don't know if there will be a second wave! @squirrelbrain 4y
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TrishB
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Fun and uplifting - my niece was supposed to get married 1 May, now rearranged to 4 Sept, this will be exactly a year after the above pic on her hen party in Portugal. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Book character - would have to be rebel, female warrior - so Katniss.
Fave read in May was the tagged book closely followed by Hamnet.
#wondrouswednesday

Cinfhen Nice memories and hopefully something wonderful to look forward too 🥂💘 5y
Cathythoughts Great pic 👍🏻❤️ I have tagged book stacked .... better move it on up 5y
Tanisha_A Lovely! 🙂 5y
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squirrelbrain Great pic! And I loved the tagged book too. 5y
batsy Great pic! And yay for good times to look forward to. 5y
erzascarletbookgasm 🤞🤞💜 5y
Eggs Great pic❤️👏🏻❤️ Hope the wedding transpires when it should 👰 ❣️ 5y
BarbaraBB Great pic! 5y
Reggie You always look great, TrishB! 5y
TrishB @Reggie aww thanks ❤️ 5y
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thewallflower0707
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I am determined to read the Longlist nominees for the #womensprize this year, and this is another book done! I really liked how many similarities where drawn to the Grenfell tragedy in London, and how the author focused on the characters and on what happened after the event. Not something we get to witness a lot, since the news have long traveled off by then.

#NightingalePoint

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TrishB
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This is a wonderful, sad and real read.
Loved all the characters and the real insight into their feelings and recoveries.
Really triggered me though - info below. Only read if you‘ve read book otherwise spoiler!

TrishB When I first left home I lived in a block of high rise flats in a similar area as the book. Someone was fiddling their gas meter and this led to an explosion. I have not thought about this for over 30 years until this book. 2am and your flat explodes, all the windows are blown out and a fireball blows through your flat. It was terrifying. Evacuation to local army barracks. People dead. All came back to me. 1986 relived. 5y
suzie.reads I loved this 😍 5y
suzie.reads Just read your comment. Wow that must of been horrendous! 😒 5y
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JennyM I‘m so excited to read this one. Lovely review ♥️ 5y
Butterfinger Oh my goodness, what a traumatic experience that must have been. 5y
TrishB @suzie.reads @Butterfinger it definitely was! 5y
Balibee146 Oh Trish no words just a big virtual hug ❤️ 5y
TrishB @Balibee146 thank you 😘 so far away in the past that I was surprised when it all came rushing back! 5y
squirrelbrain Gosh, just read this review Trish after your #bookreport. That must have been terrible for you. (I also loved the book, but I‘d read a spoiler beforehand which I think spoiled it somewhat) 5y
TrishB @squirrelbrain oh that would really spoil it to know beforehand ☹️ it was terrible, I pretty much have blocked many parts of that decade of my life from my memory!! 5y
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TrishB
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Emergency alert!! Been working at home over 10 weeks now and it‘s my first break for a lunch time read I‘ve had 😁😁 need to make the most of it I suppose!

quirkyreader I love the Gary mug🐸🐙🦋🐝 5y
Cathythoughts Sounds like a good one 👍🏻❤️enjoy 5y
Cathythoughts Only spotting Gary now ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
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TrishB @quirkyreader 😘 constants in my life. Gary, tea and books 😁 5y
TrishB @Cathythoughts 😘 100 pages in and loving it! 5y
JennyM Hope you had a good lunch break, Trish. I‘ve seen really good reviews of this! 😘 5y
TrishB @JennyM thanks Jenny ❤️ I‘m really enjoying the book. Hope you and the family are week 😘 5y
Centique 10 weeks in lockdown is so hard Trish. Just coping with all the bad news and worrying for everyone around you ☹️. Thinking of you and wishing for massive improvement for the UK 💕💕💕 5y
TrishB @Centique thank you ❤️ massively reducing lockdown, but still hundreds dying every day and the scientists saying they don‘t think we‘re ready. 🤷‍♀️ 5y
Centique @TrishB it‘s very frightening. We‘ve been so strict here, following the scientists advice, which was the right thing to do - but we were also lucky to be so far away when it hit, we had more time. I‘m hoping for some miraculous turnaround for every struggling country. 🙏 5y
TrishB @Centique me too Paula ❤️ 5y
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suzie.reads
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Thought this was brilliant! Told in the perspective of different people who lived at Nighingale Point, where tragedy strikes. Loved all the characters and it was so well written.
#mmdchallenge for a book nominated for an award in 2020

TrishB Stacked 👍🏻 5y
charl08 Yea, a really good read. Characters that stay with you, too. 5y
suzie.reads @TrishB hope you enjoy it 🙂 5y
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suzie.reads @charl08 definitely! I very rarely read a book where I love all the main characters 5y
squirrelbrain I loved this one too! 5y
suzie.reads @squirrelbrain it's a good one 😊 5y
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suzie.reads
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Started my final book for the #mmdchallenge for a book nominated for an award in 2020👍🏻

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charl08
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... he does not want to laugh today because he is sad and lost and dirty and scared.

This book is making me think about how people differently experience traumatic events.

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charl08
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Book set in a tower block, lots of interconnecting lives.

Mary's husband has been gone for 18 months, and not for the first time.

squirrelbrain I really liked this one.... 5y
charl08 @squirrelbrain it's an interesting plot choice: not where I thought it was going. 5y
squirrelbrain Unfortunately I read a review beforehand that ‘let the cat out of the bag‘, which was a shame.... 5y
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SolitaryBookLover
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If only we told this to the kids who need to hear it more often, we might save them a fair amount of pain.

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squirrelbrain
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A powerful tale of a people living in a London tower block, whose lives are changed forever after a shocking incident. (Don‘t do what I did and look up reviews elsewhere beforehand as there are spoilers in relation to what happens)

I liked the way that the varying characters give so many different POVs. There are no easy answers and the book ends without everything being tied neatly in a bow, which lends reality to the novel.

MicheleinPhilly A 384 page book is the winner of the short story award? 😉 5y
squirrelbrain Bit confusing @MicheleinPhilly - I thought it was a book of short stories at first. It should really say *previous* winner of.... 5y
MicheleinPhilly Ah! Really that should have occurred to me because I‘ve seen things like “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize” on a book cover and thought, “No it wasn‘t.” But then I realize they‘re referring to the author. I‘m sleepy. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 5y
squirrelbrain I thought the same though @MicheleinPhilly - maybe we‘re both sleepy! 🤪 5y
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squirrelbrain
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#bookmail number 2 today!

This is the second box in my book subscription that hubby gifted me. The book hasn‘t got any reviews on here yet, but sounds fab. The box also included a face mask, a lovely bookmark and some salted caramel chocolate. 😋

TrishB Lovely ❤️ 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚❤️ 5y
Geenie ❤️😍 5y
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Hooked_on_books I‘m a sucker for book subscription boxes. They‘re so much fun! 5y
Cinfhen Salted caramel chocolate 😋😋😋 5y
squirrelbrain I may have eaten that already @Cinfhen - halfway through the book too, which is great! 😁 5y
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