And things can only get worse … at least in Susan’s eyes. Yet suddenly faced with the loss of her mother and, implausibly, with the possibility of becoming a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is being realised: she is losing control. She has a London flat which is ideal for one a job that suits her passion for logic and a personal arrangement providing cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. It’s never too late to bloom … People aren’t sure what to make of Susan Green – family and colleagues find her prickly and hard to understand, but Susan makes perfect sense to herself.Īge 45, she thinks her life is perfect, as long as she avoids her feckless brother, Edward – a safe distance away in Birmingham. The Cactus is available for purchase here. I’d been hearing such good things about The Cactus by Sarah Haywood that I broke my own self-imposed Netgalley ban and successfully requested a copy of the book, only to discover when I was sorting out some unread books from my TBR that lovely Alice Herbert at John Murrays and Two Roads Books had already sent me a beautiful hard backed copy a year ago and I had bought another copy when it came out in paperback! Consequently, I thought it was about time I got round to reading The Cactus and reviewing it. Netgalley Advocate Netgalley General Data Protection Regulations Discovering Travels With My Grief by Susan Bloch.An Extract from No Easy Answers by Robert Crouch.Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love.

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