Your Blue-eyed Boy

Author: Helen Dunmore

Simone is 38, a district judge whose husband Donald is on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown. Whilst she is at court, passing judgement on the lives of others, Donald stays at home and looks after their two young sons. One morning a letter arrives; someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her and Simone’s private history is about to collide with her public worl….Read More

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