Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them. Their life – as she sees it… Read More »
In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.It’s when life started in earnestHERTFORDSHIRE, 1928The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so begins a love story that finds its feet by a lake one… Read More »
With the tree lights gently twinkling, and my kitchen disappearing under sparkly wrapping paper, it’s that time of year when it’s customary in the blogging world to choose your ten top books of the year. What an impossible task that is – a bit like choosing your favourite child. Only books I enjoy ever appear… Read More »
A stitch in time may save nine but a cross-stitch spells disaster … It should be the happiest day of her life. Despite past heartache, Sarah Yates is finally marrying her true love, John Needler.But Sarah and John can’t pretend they’re an ordinary couple. They’re time travellers and where time travel is involved, nothing runs smoothly.… Read More »
A self-confessed Christmas queen, Sue Montaigne prides herself on organising the annual nativity pageant in her small Cornish village of Poldore. But this year, what with having to deal with the repairs on Castle House after it was wrecked by a terrible storm, training a new – and frankly flighty – Virgin Mary and managing… Read More »
Can you expect a perfect Christmas after the year from hell? Cora and Liam have both experienced horrible years that have led them to the same unlikely place – spending December working in the Grotto at Golding’s department store. Under the cover of a Father Christmas fat suit and an extremely unflattering reindeer costume, they… Read More »
…and it was a thoroughly magical holiday and I’d highly recommend beautiful Vietnam as a holiday destination. The main memories? Beautiful Halong Bay and the breathtaking sunset, the incredibly delicious food, the friendly people, the wonderful scenery that made it impossible to take a bad photo… As soon as Christmas is out of the way,… Read More »
After all the recent activity – and all the wonderful books I’ve been able to tell you about – I just wanted to let you know that I’m about to have a short break. This time I’m concentrating on my other love – travel – and I’m off to Vietnam for a couple of weeks’… Read More »
What if you recalled memories from a life that wasn’t yours, from a life before …?When Becky steps into Jonathon Nelson’s atmospheric photography studio in Whitby, she is simply a freelance journalist in search of a story. But as soon as she puts on the beautiful Victorian dress and poses for a photograph, she becomes… Read More »
I’m absolutely thrilled today to be in the company of one of my favourite authors, Margaret James: you might remember how much I loved her last book, The Wedding Diary (that’s a link to my review). Margaret’s books are published by one of my favourites, Choc Lit, and I’ve just thoroughly enjoyed the latest book… Read More »
When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she’s unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel’s mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Brought… Read More »
Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her… Read More »
Puglia, 1921. Leandro Cardetta, born into poverty, emigrated to America to make his fortune and has returned home to southern Italy a rich man, accompanied by his glamorous wife, Marcie, an ex-showgirl fighting middle age. Now Leandro has money enough to hire renowned English architect, Boyd Kinsgley, to renovate a crumbling palazzo into an Art… Read More »
Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She’s bought new clothes and cut and dyed her hair. But in a small town in northern France her flight is violently cut short. When Inspector Vivier and his handsome assistant Sabine Pelat begin their investigation into her murder, the chance encounters of her last days take… Read More »
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran’s devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people’s faith… Read More »