October’s BOOK CLUB
SISTERLY LOVE
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent (£14.99, HB, Ultimo Press)
Marlowe is forced to return home to Hong Kong, where her sister Harper’s congenital heart defect is worsening. To survive, Harper needs a heart transplant, but disturbingly, medical discrimination denies Harper a place on the transplant list because she has Down’s syndrome. Family dynamics are tested to the limit in this emotive and confronting debut.
SECRETS SURFACE
The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves (£20, HB, Pan Macmillan)
As we’ve come to expect from Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Vera series, this instalment oozes atmosphere and tension.
