Jen has discovered a secret. It’s not hers to share, but is it hers to keep? If she tells her husband Jason, he might get over the shock but will he forgive her for telling the truth? She might drive a wedge through their marriage. If she tells someone else in Jason’s family – the… Read More »
Abbey Andersen is the last person to go looking for change. Yes, it’s tough that she barely sees her mother these days – but in San Francisco she has great friends, a steady relationship and a job she enjoys. When Abbey is contacted by Irish lawyer Ryan Gilligan she learns in an instant everything she… Read More »
Just round the corner from St Jarlath’s Crescent (featured in Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy’s wonderfully compelling tales. Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America… Read More »
Every so often, it’s rather nice to treat yourself. Carole Matthews was to appear at the Oswestry LitFest on a Friday night in March – although I live in West Yorkshire, I’d worked out that it wouldn’t be too difficult to detour a little on my way to a break with the family in Wales. … Read More »
I’m always a little wary of books written by people in the public eye – Kirsty Wark is far more familiar as a broadcaster – but having heard the author talking about the book in a number of radio interviews I was intrigued by the story and wanted to try it. My expectations weren’t particularly… Read More »
I’m delighted to be included in the blog tour for Stephanie Butland’s Surrounded By Water, published in hardback by Bantam Press on 10 April, and also available for Kindle. I’m also thrilled to be able to offer a signed copy to one lucky follower, as I’d like as many people as possible to read this wonderful… Read More »
There are many wonderful things about having a book blog – one of them is that, these days, I very rarely buy any books. Publishers are wonderfully generous in sharing their recommendations in return for a review, and a large number of books I review come from publishers via netgalley. But when I saw that… Read More »
Today is the day that things are going to change for Rachel Bidewell. She will walk through the doors of Clifton Avenue Care Home and start a new life. Rachel is returning to work. And as she discovers, juggling a new job, three children and an ex husband can feel like drowning. Someone needs to… Read More »
A great war. A powerful love. An impossible choice. “I think the war is everywhere: in the rain, in the river, in the grey air that we breathe. It is a current that runs through all of us. You can’t escape the current; either you swim with it, or you go under.” 1916. Across the channel,… Read More »
Sue Jackson has the perfect family but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a very dark reality. Retracing her daughter’s steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte’s diary and is forced to head deep into Charlotte’s private… Read More »
When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn’t allow to destroy her. Then, years later, an old classmate appears in London asking Frieda to help her… Read More »
When I reviewed Just What Kind Of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly – you’ll find my review here – I’ll admit I might have gushed a little. But I absolutely loved it, well up there with the very best psychological thrillers I’ve read, and I’m delighted to be part of Paula’s blog tour to… Read More »
It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana…if she hadn’t been so distracted at the thought of having to witness the one true love of her life get married, she would have seen the car coming. If she’d seen the car coming, there would have been no need for elderly spinster Esme Silcox… Read More »
For Hadley Dunn, life so far has been uneventful – no great loves, no searing losses. But that’s before she decides to spend a year studying in the glittering Swiss city of Lausanne, a place that feels alive with promise. Here Hadley meets Kristina, a beautiful but elusive Danish girl, and the two quickly form… Read More »
If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son… Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother’s birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother… she’s not well, his father tells him. She’s been… Read More »