After Paris begins like an episode of Gossip Girl. Teenage sons and daughters of the great and good have descended upon Paris for the grandest Debutante event in Europe. And this is how Alice, Nina and Jules met. The start of an unlikely friendship that has lasted for 20 years. […]
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Keeley Andrews has had a pretty rough year. Her life has been turned upside down and now she’s very much under the gaze of her over-protective mother and feeling a little lost. When an email arrives out of the blue inviting her to spend an all expenses fortnight in Paris […]
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When “Killing Eve” was on TV I was completely hooked by the two amazing lead characters. Perfectly played by Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, Villanelle and Eve are the most exciting women to hit the screen in a very long time. Finding out that the characters were based on a […]
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Having just returned from a trip to Amsterdam and a tour around the Van Gogh museum I am reminded how much I enjoy reading about the lives of the painters and the changing worlds that they found themselves in so I found myself revisiting this book. In “The Hammock” Lucy […]
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I rarely enjoy short story collections. You just start to get engaged with the characters and the story ends. I find them frustrating and generally best avoided. But when Jojo Moyes puts out an anthology I have to make an exception and I’m so glad that I did. Although this […]
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A year ago the world looked on in tears as Paris, the City of Light, struggled to come to terms with the terrible events of November 2015. Some of you may remember the very moving open letter that was doing the rounds on Facebook in the days following the attack […]
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UK Publication Date: 3 May 2016. 320 pages. This debut novel from Mary Waters-Sayer is full of colour and sensation. A literary novel with depth and substance. Kat is mother to Will and wife to entrepreneur Jonathan. They have a very comfortable life in Kensington, with a large house next […]
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