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Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not
Jan 28, 2025 5:45 PM

Author:Luana Lewis,Anna Bentinck

Forget Me Not

A tragic suicide?

When Rose’s daughter, Vivien, is found dead in a suspected suicide, Rose has questions nobody can answer. Wasn’t Vivien living the perfect life? A caring husband, a sweet little girl of her own.

Or the perfect murder?

But as the police investigation develops, their findings raise new questions. Did Vivien kill herself, or was she attacked? If so, who has something to hide?

As Rose struggles to piece together the secrets of her daughter’s life, the cracks in the family begin to show. But once Rose knows the answers, there’s no going back...

A gripping thriller perfect for fans of Daughter, The Book of You and C L Taylor's The Lie.

Reviews

A tightly written tale of domestic suspense . . . Forget Me Not is the type of book that stands or falls on the author’s ability to shift the focus of the reader’s mistrust and dislike from one character to another, and Lewis succeeds brilliantly in this.

—— Guardian

Twisted and captivating

—— Culturefly

Lewis is simply brilliant at creating unreliable characters and gradually building up the suspense, one sinister chapter at a time . . . Haunting and eerily addictive, FORGET ME NOT is another fantastic thriller from an author who's fast becoming one of my favourite crime writers, and whose books are guaranteed to keep you up until way past your bedtime. If you enjoy suspense and are looking for a spine-chilling read, I promise you'll love this one. I couldn't put it down!

—— Books, Biscuits and Tea

A gripping, chilling thriller. The plot is complex and unexpected. The characters are flawed, human and totally believable . . . tense and dramatic

—— Random Things Through My Letterbox

This moving novel will make you laugh and cry in equal measures and you won't be able to put it down

—— Sunday Express

A perfect circle of a story - about being a woman and being in love, and the many steps we take on our journey of self-discovery. Julie Cohen's writing is powerful, moving and truly beautiful. I was hooked from the very first page.

—— Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

In Falling Julie Cohen has written an immensely powerful book, poignantly capturing the lives of all three women. Absolutely compelling, impossible to put down, it will keep you reading until the very end. Highly Recommended!

—— Hot Brands Cool Places

A striking examination of family, memory, and technology… Mysteries build, and Moore’s gift for storytelling excels. This is a smart, emotionally powerful literary page-turner.

—— Publishers Weekly

Intelligent and brilliantly absorbing... Filled with achingly memorable scenes and beautifully nuanced writing, Moore's latest is a stunner in its precise take on identity and the compromises even the most righteous among us must make to survive life's challenges with grace.

—— Booklist

Moore creates a continually compelling drama ... She is masterful at evoking powerful personal connections as well as the intellectual excitement of the dawning computer era.

—— BBC Culture

Elegantly written with thoughtful and affecting prose, Liz Moore’s The Unseen World is a powerful story about love, memory, acceptance and discovery.

—— Culture Fly

Cancel the excursion to the ancient ruins and get poolside for this compelling story of love and forgiveness.

—— Sainsbury’s Magazine

A hard-hitting tale

—— Sun

Great heart

—— The Herald

Raw and emotional, this packs a punch

—— Fabulous

Koomson just gets better and better

—— Woman & Home

Tense and emotional with truly empathetic characters

—— My Weekly

A powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, fans of Dorothy Koomson’s novels will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled

—— Candis

A powerful book … it’s always good to be thinking of a book long after you put it down

—— Woman’s Way (Ireland)

A beautiful and clever novel

—— The Culture Trip

The Heavenly Table is daft, and gruesome, and offensive, and loads of fun to read.

—— New Statesman

This is gritty western noir at its best, with impeccably placed humour and gruesome graphic scenes… Pollock writes with such fluidity and emotive intensity about his deprived and often depraved characters, about the hardship and savagery in their lives, and of their grit and determination to better themselves. They are so fabulously drawn that, at times, it feels as if the Jewett boys could just ride off the pages in a blaze of dust… it would make an excellent introduction for newcomers to the world of Mr Pollock, who is in my opinion a cracker of a storyteller.

—— Nudge

Pollock makes you root for the three dirt-poor outlaws in this wicked world and writes like an angel – an angel that has escaped from a lunatic asylum.

—— Robbie Millen , The Times

This is an often violent, frequently hilarious and always engaging novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The text is rich with literary echoes, but Pollock’s deadpan style and imaginative daring are entirely his own.

—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday

Dark, violent and very, very funny, The Heavenly Table is part Western, part crime novel about flawed characters looking for a little bit of happiness as they hurtle into a frightening and uncertain future. It’s a brilliant mix of Elmore Leonard and James Lee Burke – and there is no higher praise.

—— Sun

The Association of Small Bombs deftly shifts the reader’s sympathy back and forth between the two men who pull off a relatively insignificant small blast, and the people, sometimes dislikeable, who suffer the consequences. But the moral power of his novel comes from his determination to take individual losses – and choices – seriously, rather than assigning a scale whereby the degree of tragedy is calibrated by high or low body-counts

—— Nilanjana Roy , Financial Times

Karan Mahajan is a writer with great command and acute and original insights. He offers what few can: a stereoscopic view of reality in dark, contemporary times

—— Rachel Kushner

The Association of Small Bombs is...packed with small wonders of beauty and heartbreak that are impossible to resist

—— Dinaw Mengestu

The winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question pulls off a neat trick in this almost perversely serious comic novel, creating a parallel world to Shakespeare's Venice in the wealthy, cultured Golden Triangle of Cheshire, and peopling it with parallel-ish characters...The author shows full power and ingenuity putting Strulovitch and Shylock in the same place and time.

—— Paul Levy , The Spectator

Explores the meaning of Shakespeare's play, uses its enduring relevance to examine the contemporary world and challenges us to interrogate our prejudices...Energetic, authentic and biting.

—— Independent

That Shylock should thus materialise for a present-day Jewish protagonist, and become...a confidant, an exemplar...an advisor is a brilliant conceit...a powerful reimagining and reinvention.

—— Adam Lively , The Sunday Times

Alive with humanity and fierce debate, the book offers a nice twist on that notorious pound of flesh.

—— Hephzibah Anderson , Mail on Sunday

Funny and dark by turns… A gripping tale of love, plastic surgery and that notorious pound of flesh… This warm, witty and brilliantly written book provides a challenging feast for the imagination.

—— Rebecca Wallersteiner , The Lady

A master of serious-minded comedy, Jacobson is one of the greats of his generation.

—— Culture Whisper

Brilliantly witty inventive.

—— Kate Saunders , Saga

A crackling dialectic on fatherhood, faith and what it means to be merciful… The echoes of Shakespeare’s story in Strulovitch’s are obvious…But the quips and the characters are pure Jacobson… It’s a treat.

—— Emma Hughes , The Tablet

Hilarious reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

—— Esquire

Offering witty twists to a play long experienced by many as a racial tragedy.

—— Tova Reich , Washington Post

Affectionate retelling… At the heart of the novel is the profound question of whether obligation…should be tempered by mercy.

—— Giulia Miller , Jewish Quarterly

Even those familiar with that book will be surprised by the twists now composed by Jacobson, whose most idle words have purpose, as well as point… Clever mockery and racial self-depreciation give the novel its provocative brilliance… Jacobson pours the quality of mercy through a large strainer, but Shylock’s fortitude and unswerving tribal fidelity are offered as a kind of redemption, a way, if you like, of forgiving Shakespeare. And of sending you back to him, not only just to check

—— Mary leland , Irish Examiner

As characteristically ingenious, witty and dark as his musings on what it means to be Jewish.

—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday

It hooks you into a great debate.

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

I don’t think any other author writes as well about the experience of Jewishness and he manages to be serious but with that laconic humour.

—— Tony Robinson , Radio Times Christmas Gift Guide

An intelligent, funny and enjoyable novel.

—— Brad Davies , i, Book of the Year

For my favourite novel I’m choosing Shylock is my Name… It’s a dark, witty, provocative re-imagine of Shakespeare…seriously brilliant on many levels.

—— Bel Mooney , Daily Mail, Book of the Year
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