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The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley. The seventh instalment in the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters. The six D’Aplièse sisters still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They’ll search the world to find her. The Irish-born Riley died on 11 June after a long battle with cancer.

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Dr Bruce Perry. Winfrey gets together with brain development and trauma expert Perry to discuss the effect of adverse experiences and how healing begins. The authors explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on “What’s wrong with you?” to asking,

“What happened to you?” – a simple change in perspective that opens up a new and hopeful understanding about why we do the things we do.

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. In this tender and powerful work, expanded from her original New Yorker text, Adichie, a self-confessed “daddy’s girl”, remembers her beloved father, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie, who died suddenly in June 2020 in Nigeria. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter’s fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.