Lisa’s thrilling tale is set in a village on the River Avon near Bristol with a brief sojourn to Seville. Yes as the title suggests someone is being watched …..but who? and by whom? Main characters include the slightly less than adult wayward Joey her new, less than suitable husband Alfie, Joeys’ brother the affable doctor and his […]
First time for everything and first time for me to read a Fiona Neill novel….definitely won’t be the last. Loved Betrayals, I read the Penguin paperback edition and whilst I had to put it down from time to time the wait to get back to it was far too long. Daisy suffers from OCD, her brother Max […]
Edge of the seat or edge of your bed stuff …depends where you like to read but this kept me there right on that edge wherever I was reading. Manon she of the unusual name appears somewhat adrift in her personal life. Approaching mid life with no partner, no children and estranged from dad and […]
Listening to this audiobook the writer took me to Las Vegas when the strip was relatively new and the likes of ‘Ole Blue Eyes and Sammy Davis Junior were drawing the crowds. You could almost smell the theatrical make up and dust, see the smoke ridden changing rooms and marvel at the sparkle. But life […]
I picked this book up in a library in an old manor called The Kandy House in Sri Lanka on a day when rain stopped play and sunbathing. Coincidentally the main ‘character’ of this story was another manor house but this time in England and this time called Cloudsley in deepest Chilterns country. Maggie pulls herself away […]
I don’t know how I have survived my literary life without listening to or reading a Jojo Moyes paperback. Have loved all that I have experienced so far, in fact I have become a little bit of a Jojo addict and why? …… well each novel offers something different, they don’t follow a format and sometimes they […]
What could be better than reading a book that inspires you to travel when you are already a wanderluster….? I did just that recently when in Casa Heliconia, Sri Lanka. It had been some years since I had read Victoria Hyslop’s The Island so kicking my heels and awaiting the airline to deliver my Lost Luggage I was […]
