I thoroughly enjoyed the first instalment of the life of Alex Cohen aka Fabian Mustard, which I read about in The Bowery Slugger, and as the story continues here, I think it gets even better! At the end of the first book, we see Alex jumping on a train, escaping the Lower East Side -... Continue Reading →
What an absolutely beautiful book. One of those stories that you read and you find yourself saying "Aaaaaaah ..."! Billy is ten years old. He's not a happy soul. He's been uprooted from the life he knows, literally overnight. Taken out of school, away from his best friend Liam, and from his Dad without any... Continue Reading →
This is the perfect book to give you an escape from everything that's happening in the world today: Corona, isolation, social distancing, panic, and all the emotions that we're going through every day right now! Fern and Aiden have been married for seven years, and although Fern realises that something definitely seems to be bother... Continue Reading →
Small towns and secrets ... is there a better combination than this? Nope, definitely not! Amanda Jennings has always known she was adopted. But she's always been told that her adoptive parents had no information whatsoever about her birth parents. It therefore comes as a shock when she discovers that she's been left a house... Continue Reading →
Happy publication day to Diana Wilkinson for 4 Riverside Close, a slow-burner that builds in tension, unease and discomfort right from the start - the start being a rather gruesome murder. Riverside Close is a small, intimate enclave of just 6 exclusive homes. Susan and Roger Harper together with the two children, are well established here,... Continue Reading →
It's at quite an opportune time in Sophie's life that she gets an invitation from her old friend Caroline urging her to come and stay with her at her family's beach house. Sophie's father has just passed away and she's at a loss as to what to do with her life now. She's lonely, as... Continue Reading →
Trevor Moore has decided to take a three-month break from his life and has rented a rambling farmhouse in Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands. He arrives there, miserable and partially depressed after the breakdown of his marriage, his wife having left him for another woman. His work as a ghost-writer, although generally plentiful enough has... Continue Reading →
What a perfect way to describe the way Doris feels after her husband John (she calls him something else!) leaves her for her best friend Lisa (she too, is re-named!). Her entire world shifts on its axis and it's as if her view of life, in general, is blurred, hazy ... distorted. This state of... Continue Reading →
I do love an unreliable narrator! And that's exactly what Elizabeth Huxley is. Living in the lap of luxury, it looks like she has everything her heart desires: a gorgeous, attentive husband, Lucas, two adorable, perfect children, a magnificent home, with enough help to ensure that she barely needs to lift a finger to do... Continue Reading →
