The Book List by Isabel Wylde

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning... [100 WORD LIMIT REACHED]

A murdered bride. A cryptic message. A dangerous secret. One balmy June evening in 1881, Phoebe Stanbury stands before the guests at her engagement party: this is her moment, when she will join the renowned Raycraft family. As she takes her fiance's hand, a stranger with a knife steps forward and ends the poor girl's life. Amid the chaos, he turns to her groom and mouths: 'I promised I would save you'. Curl up for a sumptuous, exhilarating debut as a young legal clerk seeks to solve the mystery of Phoebe's death - and uncovers a secret world full of danger. 'A sumptuous, exhilarating debut' is the best way to describe this novel, recommended for fans of Kate Mosse and Jessie Burton. Claire Evans may be new to writing - she only left her career at the BBC in 2013 and combines her writing career with her job as Chief Operating Officer at Two Brothers Pictures - but she knows what she is doing. There is no doubt that her experience advising on Doct...