Plot: The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny’s characters range from mischievous and edgy to tenderly touching. In “Damascus,” a mother fears her teenage son is…… Read more “Book Review: Games & Rituals By Katherine Heiny”
Book Review: Love Her or Lose Her By Tessa Bailey
Plot: Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be, anyway. Now, Rosie’s lucky to…… Read more “Book Review: Love Her or Lose Her By Tessa Bailey”
Book Review: The Sunrise Sisterhood By Cathy Bramley
Review: This one was a bit on the ‘give me the author’s other books instead’ as they are a lot better. This did start off well however…… Read more “Book Review: The Sunrise Sisterhood By Cathy Bramley”
Breakfast: Healthy Smoothie
This simple recipe is actually very delicious! Milk: My favorite nut milks for a creamy smoothie are coconut milk or soya milk which are the better of…… Read more “Breakfast: Healthy Smoothie”
Sensory Messy Activities For Babies and Toddlers
Ta da! I found some local pine cones, stones and shells (to paint), sand from a beach and some paint and glue. A container of water and…… Read more “Sensory Messy Activities For Babies and Toddlers”
Book Review: The Girl Upstairs By Georgina Lees
Plot: How well do you know your neighbour?Would you trust them with your life? I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against…… Read more “Book Review: The Girl Upstairs By Georgina Lees”
Book Review: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle By Jennifer Ryan
Plot: After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family…… Read more “Book Review: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle By Jennifer Ryan”
Book Review: The Light We Lost By Jill Santopolo
Plot: He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last? Lucy is faced with…… Read more “Book Review: The Light We Lost By Jill Santopolo”
Book Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words By Pip Williams
Plot: In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into…… Read more “Book Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words By Pip Williams”
Book Review: The Bullet That Missed By Richard Osman
Plot: It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local…… Read more “Book Review: The Bullet That Missed By Richard Osman”
Book Review: The Lipstick Bureau By Michelle Gable
Plot: Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. “A gripping, fascinating…… Read more “Book Review: The Lipstick Bureau By Michelle Gable”
Book Review: Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman
Plot: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their…… Read more “Book Review: Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman”
Book Review: The American Roommate Experiment By Elena Armas
Plot: Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She…… Read more “Book Review: The American Roommate Experiment By Elena Armas”
Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder By Holly Jackson
Plot: The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he…… Read more “Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder By Holly Jackson”
Book Review: The Alice Network By Kate Quinn
Plot: In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World…… Read more “Book Review: The Alice Network By Kate Quinn”
Book Review: Forever Interrupted By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Plot: This heartrending debut novel weaves a beautiful love story with anhomage to the redemptive power of female friendship. Elsie and Ben are average twenty-somethings, but this is…… Read more “Book Review: Forever Interrupted By Taylor Jenkins Reid”
Book Review: Spare By Prince Harry
Plot: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched…… Read more “Book Review: Spare By Prince Harry”
Book Review: Hyphenated Relations By Daniel Maunz
Plot: Sam Daly is leading a life of quiet isolation following the death of her husband, Mike. She is content to merely put in her eight hours…… Read more “Book Review: Hyphenated Relations By Daniel Maunz”
Book Review: The Maidens By Alex Michaelides
Plot: Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is…… Read more “Book Review: The Maidens By Alex Michaelides”
Book Review: Twisted Love By Ana Huang
Plot: He has a heart of ice…but for her, he’d burn the world. Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed…… Read more “Book Review: Twisted Love By Ana Huang”
Recipe: Protein Pancake Tuesday
Ingredients: 1 Cup All Purpose Flour 1 Teaspoon Sugar 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder 1/4 Teaspoon Salt 1 Cup Milk of choice 1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil 1 Tablespoon Water 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract…… Read more “Recipe: Protein Pancake Tuesday”
Book Review: Only Love Can Hurt Like This By Paige Toon
Plot: An earth-shattering secret. A life-changing love story. When Wren realizes her fiance is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. On…… Read more “Book Review: Only Love Can Hurt Like This By Paige Toon”
Book Review: Carrie Soto Is Back By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Plot: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is…… Read more “Book Review: Carrie Soto Is Back By Taylor Jenkins Reid”
Book Review: Crave By Tracy Wolff
Plot: My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a…… Read more “Book Review: Crave By Tracy Wolff”
Book Review: Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay By Ali McNarma
Plot: The sun is shining on the golden castle on Rainbow Bay – and change is in the air! Amelia is a single mother, doing her very…… Read more “Book Review: Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay By Ali McNarma”
Dessert / Snack: Valentines Day Simple Cookies (Vegan friendly)
The few ingredients: 225g butter, softened 110g caster sugar 275g plain flour 1 tsp cinnamon or other spices (optional) 75g white or milk chocolate chips (optional) Dry ingredients mix together first using an electric whisk…… Read more “Dessert / Snack: Valentines Day Simple Cookies (Vegan friendly)”
Book Review: Love & Other Scams By Phillip Ellis
Plot: You are cordially invited to a crime extravaganza: two con artists join forces to pull off a huge scam, posing as a couple at the poshest…… Read more “Book Review: Love & Other Scams By Phillip Ellis”
Book Review: The Man Who Died Twice By Richard Osman
Plot: It’s the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big…… Read more “Book Review: The Man Who Died Twice By Richard Osman”
Book Review: A Year At Castle Court By Holly Hepburn
Plot: Sadie is a single mum, nursing a broken heart. Her best friend from childhood, Cat, is burned out from working long hours as a chef in Paris. In need…… Read more “Book Review: A Year At Castle Court By Holly Hepburn”
Recipe: Delicious Caramel Chocolate Apple Pudding – 10G protein + 131 Cals
This easy to make dessert is very tasty and filling! With 10G of protein you would be mad to not try it. I used: 1/2 tub of…… Read more “Recipe: Delicious Caramel Chocolate Apple Pudding – 10G protein + 131 Cals”
Book Review: Suspects By Danielle Steel
Plot: A dedicated CIA agent becomes an unexpected ally to a woman haunted by the kidnapping of her family, in this thrilling novel from #1 New York…… Read more “Book Review: Suspects By Danielle Steel”
Book Review: The Back Up Man By Phoebe Luckhurst
Plot: Shortly after her 29th birthday, Anya Mackie finds herself single, homeless and jobless. Well-meaning friends and family rally round, but she’s soon stuck in a flatshare…… Read more “Book Review: The Back Up Man By Phoebe Luckhurst”
Book Review: Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop By Rebecca Raisin
Plot: Flora loves Christmas more than anything else in the world, so she’s gutted when her Scrooge-alike boss fires her from Deck the Halls Christmas emporium. But now…… Read more “Book Review: Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop By Rebecca Raisin”
Healthy and Freshly Hand-Made Chips
We stopped by a local farm shop and decided to try fresh potatoes without the middle man in this process. We also had a lack of chips…… Read more “Healthy and Freshly Hand-Made Chips”
Book Review: The Secret History By Donna Tartt
Plot: Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and…… Read more “Book Review: The Secret History By Donna Tartt”
Book Review: An Ocean of Minutes By Thea Lim
Plot: Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders,…… Read more “Book Review: An Ocean of Minutes By Thea Lim”
Book Review: The Book of Wonders By Julien Sandrel
Plot: The Book of Wonders is a moving, heart-warming tearjerker of a novel about finding the strength to carry on in the face of devastation, and how the…… Read more “Book Review: The Book of Wonders By Julien Sandrel”
Book Review: Eight Perfect Hours By Lia Louis
Plot: On a snowy evening in March, 30-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a…… Read more “Book Review: Eight Perfect Hours By Lia Louis”
Book Review: My (extra)Ordinary Life By Rebecca Ryan
Plot: The Average UK Woman… Has brown hairIs 5’4Eats meatDoesn’t live in LondonWill fall in love before they’re 30…Emily knows how she measures up. How do you?…… Read more “Book Review: My (extra)Ordinary Life By Rebecca Ryan”
Dinner: Low Cal Pasta & Chicken Dish – 489 Cals!
Aside from cooking the pasta boiling it for 25 minutes, I began to make the sauce which takes a little while as it is my first time…… Read more “Dinner: Low Cal Pasta & Chicken Dish – 489 Cals!”
Book Review: The Family Holiday By Elizabeth Noble
Plot: The Chamberlain family – Charlie and Daphne, and their children Laura, Scott and Nick – had fantastic summer holidays when they were young. But then, inevitably,…… Read more “Book Review: The Family Holiday By Elizabeth Noble”
Book Review: Sincerely Me By Julietta Henderson
Plot: An uplifting and heart-warming novel about a family reunited, second chances and the power of forgiveness, from the author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The…… Read more “Book Review: Sincerely Me By Julietta Henderson”
Book Review: Maybe She’ll Stay By Robyn Lucas
Plot: After three disastrous marriages, a series of bad dates, and a tumultuous relationship with an emotionally abusive mother, psychology professor Nancy Jewel is through with love…… Read more “Book Review: Maybe She’ll Stay By Robyn Lucas”
Book Review: The Best Days of Our Lives By Lucy Diamond
Plot: When 35-year-old Leni McKenzie is knocked off her bike, her family’s world is turned upside down. Leni and her sister Alice were best friends as well…… Read more “Book Review: The Best Days of Our Lives By Lucy Diamond”
C’s La Vie 