Sophie spent many happy summers as a child at Rockaway Beach. Visiting her beloved grandmother and taking in all the ambiance of a summer seaside resort. Then, suddenly one summer, the holidays stopped and all Sophie knew was that her mother and her grandmother had really fallen out. A couple […]
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I’m clearly missing my Mediterranean holidays as this is the second book I’ve read in recent weeks set on the beautiful Greek island of Corfu. You can almost feel the sunscreen on your skin and the sand between your toes as Broom paints a picture of an idyllic island village […]
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I canโt believe that it has taken until now for me to pick up one of Julie Houstonโs novels. Booked in for the blog tour this week I devoured this story while basking in the Easter sunshine. Itโs a fun uncomplicated read that had me laughing out loud in parts. […]
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In Beneath the Surface Fiona Neill really doesn’t do much for Fenland tourism. It is grey and damp and very still. The Vermuyden family have been forced to move out of their beautiful flat in the middle of Cambridge because of some poor financial decisions by Patrick. Their new home […]
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I’ve been a fan of Lisa Jewell since her debut outing with Ralph’s Party way back in 1998. Known for her larger than life characters Jewell has carved herself a niche in modern British fiction. This is her fifteenth book and Then She Was Gone is a bit of a […]
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Many thanks to the good people at Hodder & Stoughton for including “Angelnet Reviews” on their blog tour around the release date for Dandy Gilver’s latest outing. As usual I’ve done my normal trick of picking up a book far along in a series! This is book twelve in McPherson’s […]
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It is great that some of the best fictional detectives over the past couple of years have been strong female characters with personality and intelligence and I suspect the fact that a lot of these have been through Bookouture is no coincidence. Carol Wyerโs latest book is her first foray […]
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The Affair is the latest book by Amanda Brooke, an author renowned for her “human” stories. This one centres around florist Nina and her family. Newly remarried to Bryn she has been trying to settle him in to family life with her two teenage kids. Liam, at seventeen, is practically […]
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Hmm. Where to begin? Ben and Emma Jewell are at the end of their tether. Struggling to cope with their severely autistic son Jonah they are getting little help or support. Jonah is ten and often incontinent, violent and largely uncommunicative. The Jewell’s decide to fake a separation in order […]
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Weighing in at a hefty 560 pages The Kept Woman is the eighth book in Slaughterโs Will Trent series. If you havenโt read any of these I wholeheartedly recommend going back to the very beginning and reading Blindsighted. This is the first of the Grant County series and where we […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes