Plot: An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected, in this unflinchingly funny and honest novel from the author of Last Tang Standing. Management consultant Lucie Yi is done waiting for Mr. Right. After a harrowing breakup foiled her plans for children—and drove her to aContinue reading “Book Review: Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic By Lauren Ho”
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Book Review: Heart Bones
Plot: Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah’s parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built andContinue reading “Book Review: Heart Bones”
Book Review: Just Another Liar By Mandy Byatt
Plot: Denise, Petra, and Anna all have their reasons for being alone.But they’re not ready to share them. David is the answer to all their problems.But they’ve only met him online. Each woman wants her happy ending.But only one of them can get it. One of these women will end up dead.But which one? AndContinue reading “Book Review: Just Another Liar By Mandy Byatt”
Book Review: To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Plot: A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class inContinue reading “Book Review: To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee”
Book Review: Mad About You By Mhairi McFarlane
Plot: Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. Getting married.Her boyfriend’s family.Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself. And he’s also hiding secrets of his own . . . Can these two take a crazy risk, face theContinue reading “Book Review: Mad About You By Mhairi McFarlane”
Book Review: The Memory Of Her By Bianca Schwarz
Plot: Eliza Broad has overcome trauma and loss to become the confident woman and spy she is today, much in thanks to the care and attention of Sir Henry March, spy to the Crown. Fellow spy and good friend to Sir Henry, Allen Strathem has loved Eliza from the moment he first set eyes onContinue reading “Book Review: The Memory Of Her By Bianca Schwarz”
Book Review: The Art Of Travelling Strangers By Zoe Disigny
Plot: It’s the 1980s, and art historian Claire Markham reels from a series of heartbreaking losses. Desperate to escape her shattered reality, she becomes an art guide in Europe for quirky stranger Viv Chancey and embarks on a life-changing journey through the art-filled cities of Milan, Venice, Ravenna, Florence, Siena, Rome, and Paris. Once abroad,Continue reading “Book Review: The Art Of Travelling Strangers By Zoe Disigny”
Book Review: The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks
Plot: Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty. But he is haunted by memories of the beautiful girl he met there years before. A girl who stole his heartContinue reading “Book Review: The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks”
Book Review: The Painter’s Girl By Helen Fripp
Plot: Paris, 1860s. For Mimi Bisset, survival is everything on the cobbled streets of the Paris slums. She tries to forget the pain of losing her daughter Colette: born out of wedlock and forcibly given away to a rich family. But Mimi’s world turns upside down after a chance encounter with handsome artist Édouard Manet.Continue reading “Book Review: The Painter’s Girl By Helen Fripp”
Book Review: The Christie Affair By Nina De Gramont
Plot: In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance.I’m no Hercule Poirot.I’m her husband’s mistress. Agatha Christie’s world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame. Nan O’Dea’s world is something very different. Her attempts to escape a tough London upbringing duringContinue reading “Book Review: The Christie Affair By Nina De Gramont”