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When a fire rips through Travis’ home leaving him and Bella with nowhere to live he makes a decision that will change their lives forever, in trying to keep his daughter safe he takes a risk that means he might lose her.
Come Away with Me by Sara MacDonald
Jenny and Ruth were fast friends growing up in Cornwall but when Ruth’s parents suddenly decided to move to Canada when the girls were eighteen they lost touch. Fast forward a decade and a chance encounter on a train throws the two women together again, and it’s not long before they realise that their lives [...]
Dangerous Waters by Anne Allen
I’ve just spent a lovely day experiencing life on the island of Guernsey through the eyes of Jeanne le Page in Dangerous Waters. Jeanne comes back to the island where she spent her childhood after the breakdown of her relationship and the death of her grandma. She left at the age of 16 after witnessing [...]
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
Having just experienced Jacquelyn Mitchard’s clunky effort of jumping between characters and their history I breathed a sigh of relief when I picked up The Distance Between Us and discovered quite quickly that Maggie is master if this skill. Events unfold in parallel as Jake experiences a tragic crowd crush in Hong Kong that leaves [...]
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Still Summer
It’s been a while since I read anything by Jacquelyn and I couldn’t remember what kind of books she wrote, turns out Still Summer is some sort of chick lit meets family drama meets thriller – only problem being in trying to be all of those things it didn’t quite gel together properly.
In short this is a book about four women who charter a boat to sail around the Caribbean to spend some quality time together and catch up on old times. Throw in a last minute illness which means one woman can’t go and a teenage daughter is taken along instead, a rusty can opener, a couple of tragic accidents and some modern day pirates and instead of a dream vacation you have a nightmare on the open sea.
Goodnight Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson
Goodnight, Beautiful
As Nova sits by her son’s bedside willing him to wake from a coma, we learn about the events that brought her to this place, events that started with her falling in love with her best friend Mal, and years later offering to be a surrogate for him and his wife Stephanie.
Dorothy takes us right back to the beginning of Nova and Mal’s friendship, and then through the voices of Nova and Stephanie she brings us back through the years to the present day. This is a story of friendship, and love, and misunderstandings, and lies.
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
I was really starting to worry for a while there that my reading mojo had completely deserted me and I was going to have to seek out a new hobby. In a last ditch attempt to prove I could actually finish a book I picked up Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult, and true to form I couldn’t put it down.
The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy
The Legacy of Eden
The Legacy of Eden is Nelle’s first novel and if this is a hint of things to come she has definitely made my ‘must watch author list’. From the opening line I was hooked, I wanted to learn more about the mysterious Aurelia. It’s so much more than just a farm, it’s almost living and breathing and it holds the key to so many of the family’s darkest secrets. I wanted to learn more about Lavinia Hathaway, the matriarch of this once-great family, a woman whose influence was often un-noticed but shaped the lives of those around her. And of course Meredith. I wanted to know what had happened on that dark night so many years ago that had prompted her to leave her family home far behind, flee to another city, and spend her nights haunted by the ghosts of her past.
