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Powerless by Vicky Ball

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  Unexpected, Authentic, Dark Genre: Teen & YA/Thriller/Family Drama Powerless by Vicky Ball author How would you feel if you had had to share the limelight with another for the first eight years, and then one day they just leave, and suddenly you have that spotlight to yourself. All the attention is on you….well eventually anyway. Then out of nowhere this person returns, and you not only feel like you might have to share that spotlight again, but find that you aren’t really in it at all. Your spot has been taken away again. You’re confined to the back of the stage, whilst the crowd can’t get enough of the main act, and you don’t even know the reason for that sudden change all those years ago, left as some sort of understudy for a play that you hadn’t rehearsed for (not that you knew that at the time), thrown on to the stage and expected to perform in their part when you weren’t ready. Keeping the performance going whilst all the others are seemingly forgetting theirs. They ...
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Love Will Tear Us Apart by Scott Bissett

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  Compelling, Emotional, Meticulous Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Family Drama/Relationship Fiction Love Will Tear Us Apart by Scott Bissett - Author ‘You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time, and its up to you to pass it as you please (Charlotte Eriksson)……….but is it right to disregard others and just leave them behind because life got too hard or you don’t want to face up to what people think of you? Especially when those who were not directly involved get swept along in the melee and consciously or not, become collateral damage…...to leave people behind without an explanation, only thinking of yourself. The passage of time had been something that Jamie had tried not to acknowledge too much, losing himself in a place that didn’t recognise his past and is constantly re-inventing itself and the people in it, if they choose to let it. He needn’t be the same person from one day to the next if he chose not to be. But in his home town and to the people ...
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