Christmas seems to have started much earlier this year. Some of my neighbours have had Christmas decorations up for about three weeks already in an attempt to alleviate some of the gloom of the Winter lockdown in England. So if you’re looking for a little festive escapism this could well […]
The Illustrated Child is a story of the relationship between a father and his daughter. It isn’t always an easy one as Tobias Kemp and his nine year old daughter Romilly move into the ramshackle Braer House in a small Norfolk village. To Romilly it feels like there are ghosts […]
I’ve been a bit spoiled recently and have read some incredibly powerful or moving books. Sometimes though you don’t want to be challenged or stretched you just want to escape and when you feel like that Jenny Hale’s books are a perfect escape. This story carries on from earlier book […]
After seven weeks in lockdown it is looking more and more likely that the only Greek sunshine I’m going to get this year is vicariously through the pages of a book. Alice Clark is delighted when boyfriend Max suddenly proposes to her in a little restaurant in Crete. Her life […]
I was really quite excited when this one arrived on my kindle. The final instalment of the Undertaker’s Daughter series where Doctor Rowan Dupont has been staring death in the face. It followed her back to her hometown of Winchester, Tennessee, ten months ago, cloaking the walls of her family’s […]
It is August 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hetty Cartwright has been tasked with moving the precious exhibits from the Natural History Museum in London to a safer more secluded country house for the duration of the hostilities. Evacuated to Lockwood Manor along with her charges […]
Freya Miller is at the end of her tether. After her husband’s affair and his sudden death she is about to lose her house. If it was just her she could cope sofa surfing with friends but there is her five year old daughter Skye to consider. Losing her Dad […]
Originally published in the 1980s under a pen name there has been a lot of talk about The Eyes of Darkness – the book that predicted Covid 19. And while there is an element of truth in that you can’t trust the current Kindle version of the book. The original […]
I’ve done my usual trick with this series. I was sent The Lies We Tell to review and realised that it was the second full book in the series. Enjoying the premise of the book that I’d picked up I decided to go back to the very beginning. The Undertakers’ […]
I’ve reviewed Adele Parks a few times on here before and unlike other writers she always seems to go for something a bit different. A bit quirky and unexpected. This is a story of a family, a life lived with secrets. Daisy is married to Simon. He is an unacknowledged […]
