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Dines, Adrienne The Jigsaw MakerDore, AnnabelWhen Jim Nealon walks into LizzieFlynn’s shop and proposes that she helphim make jigsaws, Lizzie agrees. Puttingtogether one person’s memories so thatanother person can feel part of themseems like a good idea. Then Jim showsher the photographs he intends to use.Now the picture that was Lizzie’s life isin the air, swirling around in a thousandpieces and threatening to fall. As shescrambles to put her life back togetheragain, Lizzie realises that it can’t be done.It was never a real picture anyway.The Great North RoadIt is Newcastle, 1953, and two newmothers make a pact that will resonatefor generations to come. “The GreatNorth Road” is an epic literary voyagethrough the storied landscapes ofnorthern England, through tragedyand comedy, to the darker reaches ofhuman behaviour. Compassionate andunfailingly dramatic, it is a searingand addictive debut novel. ‘A gothic,surreal melodrama ...perceptive andaffectionate’21