When you read the blurb of this book, you'll be inclined to think that it's your typical story about family angst gone wrong. Well, it certainly starts out like that. Hannah seems to be a rather over-protective mother when it comes to her teenage daughter Olivia. She feels that she's lost all control over her... Continue Reading →
Susie Lynes, what a beautiful book you've written! I know, I know ... it seems like the strangest thing to say, considering the subject matter, but you've created such a moving story with incredibly real characters who really reach out and grab hold of the hearts of your readers. Everything changes for Carol and her... Continue Reading →
I loved this book and read it really quickly. Apparently it's part of a series that's loosely based around a coffee shop called The Daily Grind in the trendy London suburb of Hackney. And here we find Gemma Grey who's just moved into a house-share nearby. Her life's not quite turning out to be what... Continue Reading →
I am so incredibly excited to be on this blog tour for a South African author who I'm so immensely fond of, and I'm thrilled that this is now her second international release!! I couldn't put this book down - I found it absolutely riveting! It's topical, relevant and something that so many women in... Continue Reading →
I couldn't put this one down! It grips you from the very beginning and doesn't let up! Jenny Bowen makes it onto the Caledonian Sleeper Train by the skin of her teeth, rushing onto the train, lucky that the doors are the old fashioned manual type that don't close electrically, but are manually operated! Although... Continue Reading →
This one's quite a different sort of book. I'd typify it as a 'what if' sort of tale about the 'life' of Aphrodite, who's appointed as the Keeper of Love, and sent out into the world ... this, after she thought she had already found her true love: her best friend, who she was then... Continue Reading →
As I'm sure you all know by now if you follow this blog regularly, I do love an Irish read! And this is no different. It's the third in Susanne O'Leary's Willow House series, and for some reason I've only read the second book prior to this - Sisters of Willow House. The first book... Continue Reading →
When Skye and her twin sister Ginny were 20 years old, they had their bright future planned: they were going to get out of their small Scottish town of Eilean Shiel, and they were heading off to America in search of fame. They had talent and youth on their side, and stars in their eyes... Continue Reading →
Happy publication to Ruby Hummingbird for this gem of a book! If ever there was a story to remind us not to wait to tell the people in our lives that we love them but to do it right now, then this is most definitely the book! It's a book about missed opportunities, 'what if's',... Continue Reading →
It's a fact one cannot even fathom: babies were born in Auschwitz! How many actually survived the brutal, inhumane conditions of a death camp - a place where lives were intended to end, not begin - if they weren't murdered immediately after birth, is literally a handful! The Child of Auschwitz is a historical novel;... Continue Reading →
