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by Liz Fenwick (£9.99, PB, HarperCollins) Newlyn, Cornwall. Kerensa is sent by her father’s auction house to catalogue a ramshackle building overlooking the sea. What she discovers inside changes her

Author Carol Kirkwood on the books that changed her life

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

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by Carol Kirkwood (£16.99, HB, HarperCollins) On the scorching isle of Majorca, everyone is hiding something. Designer Camille Fontaine arrives there with a broken heart, fleeing from the ruins of a l