Plot: Duckling’s a nickname Lucy has never been able to shake off.And, if she’s honest, maybe it suits her.She just isn’t the type to socialise with other people.You might say she’s reluctant to leave her nest. Lucy’s life is small, but safe. She’s got a good routine. But all that’s about to change… When Lucy’sContinue reading “Book Review: Duckling By Eve Ainsworth”
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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: One Italian Summer By Rebecca Serle
Plot: When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mum, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magicalContinue reading “Book Review: One Italian Summer By Rebecca Serle”
Book Review: On A Night Like This
Plot: Within days of wishing she could change her life, Fran Cooper is acting assistant to a celebrity, on a yacht in the Mediterranean, and en route to a tiny Italian island and the glittering Crystal Ball, along with the world’s rich and famous. When she – quite literally – bumps into a handsome AmericanContinue reading “Book Review: On A Night Like This”
Book Review: The Switch
Plot: Leena is too young to feel stuck.Eileen is too old to start over.It’s time for The Switch… After blowing a big presentation at work, Leena takes a two-month sabbatical and escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She’d like a second chanceContinue reading “Book Review: The Switch”
Book Review: This Time Next Year
Plot: Down-to-earth baker Minnie Cooper knows two things with great certainty: that her New Year’s birthday has always been unlucky, and that it’s all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she’s never met. Minnie and Quinn were born at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year’s Day thirty years before, and not onlyContinue reading “Book Review: This Time Next Year”
BookClub Reads: All About Us
Plot: Ben’s always loved December, but this year, with his relationship with Daphne on the rocks, it’s missing its usual magic. So when he runs into his old friend Alice – the one that got away – Ben can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he’d done things differently all those years ago.Continue reading “BookClub Reads: All About Us”
Book Review: Dreaming Of Venice
Plot: Find love, friendship and prosecco – in the magical city of Venice Life is tough for Penny. A dead end job in a London café, a boyfriend in Australia (what could go wrong?) and an art career going nowhere. But then Penny is approached with an extraordinary proposition. It isn’t going to be easyContinue reading “Book Review: Dreaming Of Venice”
Book Review: Making Wishes At Bayview
Plot: Callie Derbyshire has it all: her dream job as a carer at Bay View, finally she has found the love of her life. Everything is perfect. Well, almost. Ex-partners are insistent on stirring up trouble, and Callie’s favourite resident, Ruby, hasn’t been her usual self. But after discovering the truth about Ruby’s lost love,Continue reading “Book Review: Making Wishes At Bayview”
Book Review: The Juniper Gin Joint
Plot: It’s been a tough year for empty-nester Jen in her seaside Devon town; her kids have left for pastures new and her husband’s left for another woman. Home alone with her eccentric home-brewing father and a Jack Russell, she is just getting her life back on track when her job at the local museumContinue reading “Book Review: The Juniper Gin Joint”