After all the chilly months – and, trust me her in Scotland it was very chilly – it was heartening to have the warmth of blue skies and sunshine last week. The pleasure of sitting outside is immeasurable – I even broke out the flip-flops! However, as I’m typing this the snow – yes, SNOW – is falling outside. Talk about changeable! It’s been an … Continue reading March 2022
It only took one night to tear a family apart. Artist and illustrator Edwina Spinner used to have a busy family life. Now she lives alone, in a house that has grown too big for her. She has decided to sell it. As Edwina takes the estate agent from room to room, she finds herself transported back to her life as a young mother. Back … Continue reading Moving by Jenny Eclair #BookReview #Sphere #3.5*
Lana and Roman Wade have fled the city for a little corner of paradise, exchanging their flat with its unhappy memories for a small honey-coloured house among the rolling green hills of Oxfordshire. Their new home, set in a residential Close known as The Gardens, is their dream and their new neighbours are charming.So why is Lana feeling so uneasy? Lana and Roman may seem like … Continue reading The People Next Door by Tony Parsons #BookReview #Penguin #NetGalley #5*
Welcome to Berecombe-by-the-Sea for a year of very special celebrations… This year sees the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those brave boys who went to fight on French beaches for our freedom. And now Berecombe is playing host to our American allies once more. All surviving soldiers who were billeted in the town have been invited for street … Continue reading Sunshine & Cider Cake by Georgia Hill #BookReview #TheGreatSummerStreetParty1 #OneMoreChapter #4.5*
There’s no place like Home . . . The Home Group is a collection of ultra-exclusive private members’ clubs and a global phenomenon, and the opening of its most ambitious project yet – Island Home, a forgotten island transformed into the height of luxury – is billed as the celebrity event of the decade. But as the first guests arrive, the weekend soon proves deadly … Continue reading The Club by Ellery Lloyd #BookReview #BlogTour #Mantle #NetGalley #5*
MEET DETECTIVE ALICE ROSSI IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES. A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish. A female serial killer with a deadly agenda. The detective who must stop her. Luxury holiday lodges in the stunning Peak District. The game begins . . . Callum is lured to an isolated boathouse by … Continue reading The Ash Lake Murders by Helen H. Durrant #BookReview #DetectiveAliceRossi1 #BlogTour #JoffeBooks #Books’n’All #5*
In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies. 1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and … Continue reading Scarlet Carnation by Laila Ibrahim #BookReview #LakeUnionPublishing #WunderkindPR #5*
THE MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS OF OUR TIME A brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family’s foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants … Continue reading French Braid by Anne Tyler #BookReview #RandomHouse #NetGalley #4.5*
A traditional British detective novel set in Cumbria A drowned man. A missing teenager. A deadly secret. When Emmy Leach discovers the body of a drug addict, wrapped in a tent and submerged in the icy waters of a Cumbrian tarn, she causes more than one problem for investigating officer DCI Jude Satterthwaite. Not only does the discovery revive his first, unsolved, case, but the … Continue reading Death in the Mist by Jo Allen #BookReview #DCIJudeSatterthwaite7 #BlogTour #Rachel’sRandomResources #5*
Eva has lost her baby. Set in the South Bronx in the mid-1990s, Stories of Gabriel portrays neighbors in a tightly knit community at a time of crisis. How does this loss affect the lives of the devastated parents, their families, friends—the people on the block? What memories, heartbreaks, and quests does it spark? Haunting and intricate, Stories of Gabriel is not “a love story,” but a story of … Continue reading Stories of Gabriel by Esther Alix #BookReview #DebutNovel #HeliotropeBooks #MaguirePR #4.5*
Grace J Reviewerlady 