Just when you think that Caroline Mitchell can’t surprise you she comes up with The Perfect Mother. Roz is just about scraping by in a job that she hates in Dublin. When she realises that she is pregnant after an ill advised one night stand things are pretty desperate. She […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Genie is dreading this Christmas. The gloomy days and frosty nights just serve to remind her that it is almost a year since she lost Anna her adoptive mother in a tragic accident. David is really worried about her. Genie has spent most of the year barely able to leave […]
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I’m really lucky in that I often get sent books to review several months before their publication date. I’m usually pretty good and add them to my reading schedule and plan to read them just before the launch date. When The Family Upstairs arrived on my kindle three months early […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Given the connections between E L James and the Twilight Saga (The Fifty Shades series was originally published as Twilight fan fiction online featuring Edward and Bella) it was probably inevitable that the books would be republished from Christian Grey’s point of view. Unlike Stephenie Meyer’s abandoned Midnight Sun project […]
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Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to have a baby. As a second attempt to adopt a Chinese baby falls through at the last minute Kat is becoming increasingly desperate. A chance meeting with Lisa, an old childhood friend, in a coffee shop suddenly means that there is […]
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The first in a new series by Caroline Mitchell, Love You to Death introduces us to DS Ruby Preston, a complicated detective in a busy London police station. Ruby has a secret. A long time liaison with Nathan Crosby, head of the infamous Crosby family, and his links to escorts, […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 14 Jan 2016. 480 pages. One of my favourite books of last year was the beautiful and haunting “What Milo Saw” by Virginia Macgregor. When I realised that she had a second book out this year there was a certain amount of trepidation on my part because […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes