The Heart Is A Burial Ground

Tamara Colchester, Simon & Schuster, £12.99

This debut about four generations of women in one family revolves around the matriarch who has a deep emotional impact on everyone she meets.

The concept is promising but the characters are frustratingly fanciful and self-indulgent – as if they know they’ll end up in a novel. Disappointing. OUR VERDICT 6/10