Parted tragically from First Sergeant Charles Monroe King by an explosion in Baghdad, Dana Canedy tells the story of their love, and the journal King left behind for their infant son in the poignant memoir A Journal for Jordan (Hachette, February).
    The Necklace (Cheryl Jarvis, HarperCollins, December) sounds an intriguing true story of 13 women who share an
expensive necklace as none can afford it on her own. Through regular meetings friendships are forged as they swap stories about where the item has been-to Paris, weddings, parties, and in every woman’s bedroom.
    History is fictionalised by Emma Darwin in A Secret Alchemy (Headline, February). This is the story of the deaths
of Edward V and his brother and the surrounding suspicions, including the personal stories of a betrayed queen, and the consequences of struggles for power. Darwin’s previous novel was The Mathematics of Love.

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