As a traveller the Orient Express is already on my wish list so with the hook line of ‘A new life is just a ticket away‘ and a cover with turquoise waters and blue skies how could I resist Veronica Henry’s A Night on the Orient Express? The story moves from present day to fifty years ago, intertwining a suite of […]
The bright yellow cover and the unusual title was what drew me to Joanna Cannon’s story set in the long hot summer of ’76. Yes I remember it well, life was slower, the air was still and heavy and we just couldn’t believe that day after day the heat would continue. I was little older […]
It has been fabulous to meet Miss Moonshine a lady of a certain age in a different time period who a little like Dr Who seems to defy age and death as she pops up in modern times too. A lady who has a certain magic and mystical aura who clearly wants to share only […]
So lucky to get Sue to chat to me again as she is an extremely busy author, she will be appearing at The Booksmith in Weedon Bec on May 12th and a blog tour for We Other e-book – which runs from 24th May – 6th June. I recently read Sue Bentley’s book We Other and was totally […]
A fast paced novel centring on Corrie a twenty something much loved daughter of single mother Edwina. Corrie has dreams to leave Ambleside to seek a more exciting life in London but Edwina’s illness is holding her back…..that is until Edwina dies leaving money and a letter which tells Corrie about her father who previously […]
Is it really possible to get rid of everything but one hundred things????? This is Gina’s story as she embarks on her new life….as she sheds the skin of her marriage to Stuart, she goes through the process of clearing out and in doing so cleanses her spirit and makes room in her tiny new […]
What a rip roaring life Clarissa Dickson Wright enjoyed….perhaps enjoyed is not the right word to use as there were some really deep dark times but none the less her account of those times is as rich as her recipes that she and her cooking partner Jennifer Patterson concocted as they explored the UK on […]
