I just wanted to apologise for the unplanned break. I’ve had a great deal of sadness in my life over the last couple of months, but I’m now ready to pick up the threads again and return to my blog. Other than my wonderful friends and family, reading has kept me going through the dark… Read More »
Your family are always there for you…aren’t they? For Tara, Vee, Niall and Damian, the children of the Shine family, their parents have seen them through thick and thin. In fact, Gus and Joan’s lifetime of hard work has given their children the luxuries they never had when they were growing up – a comfortable… Read More »
How can one honeymoon cause so much trouble? Much as Emma loves Tom, she would never have got married if he hadn’t insisted. But with Tom sick for the whole week, shouldn’t she at least take advantage of the entertainment? Winston married Melissa after a three-month whirlwind romance. As a breakfast TV fitness star, he’s anxious to keep… Read More »
By far the majority of my reading is done on the Kindle these days. Choosing which book to read next (from a growing pile of actual books…) I’d actually forgotten the power of a good cover – I knew I’d like this book before I even thought about opening it. The other thing that attracted… Read More »
Denmark, 1940. War has come and everyone must choose a side. For British-born Kay Eberstern, living on her husband Bror’s country estate, the Nazi invasion and occupation of her adopted country is a time of terrible uncertainty and inner conflict. With Bror desperate to preserve the legacy of his family home, even if it means… Read More »
DAY ONEThe Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWOCivilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTYA band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there.… Read More »
1871. When Fergus Deagan’s wife dies in childbirth, she makes him promise to take their family to Western Australia to join his brother Bram, also to marry again. She’s right. His young sons and newborn daughter do need a mother’s love and he needs something different.Disowned by her father for becoming pregnant, Cara Payton bears… Read More »
I’m delighted today to be the first stop on the blog tour for a book I thoroughly enjoyed – Follow Me Follow You by Laura E James, published in paperback by Choc Lit on 5th September. You save me and I’ll save you… Victoria Noble has pulled the plug on romance. As director of the… Read More »
A few weeks ago I had the immense pleasure of reading Love And Fallout by Kathryn Simmonds – you’ll find my review here. Kathryn’s been a little busy recently – welcome to the world, baby Clara! – but I’m quite delighted she’s found time to pop in (between feeds…) and answer a few of my… Read More »
August 4th, 1914: ‘It was the day of champagne and raspberries, the day the world changed.’ Elin lives a luxurious but lonely life at Hiram Hall. Her husband Hugo loves her but he has never recovered from the Boer War. Now another war threatens to destroy everything she knows. With Hugo at the front, and… Read More »
Can a runaway bride stop running?Elle Jamieson is an unusually private person, in relationships as well as at work – and for good reason. But when she’s made redundant, with no ties to hold her, Elle heads off to a new life in sunny Malta. Lucas Rose hates secrets – he prides himself on his ability… Read More »
How well do you really know those you love?Jenny loves her three teenage children and her husband, Ted, a celebrated neurosurgeon. She loves the way that, as a family, they always know each other’s problems and don’t keep secrets from each other. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play… Read More »
It was the day when everything stopped. At quarter past two on a hot afternoon in August, Anna’s beautiful, headstrong elder sister Rose disappears. Twenty years later, Anna still doesn’t know whether Rose is alive or dead. In her early thirties now, she sees her future unfolding – with sensible, serious Martin and a grown-up,… Read More »
‘As soon as they processed my release Noah and I hit the ground running. A change of clothes. A wig. An inconspicuous sedan. We doubled back once, twice, then drove south when we were really headed east. In San Francisco we had a girl who looked like me board a plane to Hawaii. Oh, I thought… Read More »
Two women; two different worlds.Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on hold. Nina is sophisticated and independent – entirely in control. When the pair meet, Nina generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn’t the first time the women’s paths have crossed. Nina remembers Emma and she remembers what Emma did. But… Read More »