Pick of the week's best paperbacks: Balancing Act, The Winter Garden, Impossible!
A LOOK at this week's top reads.
Balancing Act
by Joanna Trollope Black Swan, £7.99
Susie Moran is the family breadwinner. Her musician husband has always been happy to look after their three girls while she built a successful business.
Susie fights to hold on to her life’s work as the hippy father who abandoned her turns up and wants to build bridges.
Which is more important: family or business? And which will Susie choose?
The Winter Garden
by Jane Thynne Simon & Schuster, £7.99
Undercover agent Clara Vine is masquerading as an actress in pre-war Berlin. Asked to go deeper undercover she attends a Nazi bride school where women are trained to be good wives.
When a young woman is found murdered Clara finds the death is linked to a more ominous secret.
She must work in the shadows behind glittering Berlin society to uncover the truth and ensure she comes out alive to tell it.
Impossible!
by Michelle Magorian Troika Books, £7.99
Michelle Magorian is the author of Goodnight Mr Tom and a series of books for young teens that makes her one of the first authors to specialise in the genre.
Her unflinching realistic approach and her warmth and humour make her books unputdownable.
In this Josie must dodge kidnappers, mistaken identity and a gang of villains to pursue her dream of becoming an actress.
Serving The Reich
by Philip Ball Vintage, £9.99
The compelling story of physics and the Third Reich. Under the Nazis scientists did what they could to survive. After the war they claimed they’d been apolitical, that they’d delayed production of the atomic bomb, that they had resisted.
This is an exploration of morality and human dilemmas under a totalitarian regime.
