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Addition: Netgalley review e-book Genre: Historical fiction Published: 2014 Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: 1961: Born on the day that WW2 broke out, 21-year-old Fay Knox cannot remember her early childhood in London, before she moved to a Norfolk village with her mother, Kitty. Though she has seen a photograph of her father, she does not recall him either. […]
Book 44 was a Netgalley review book – A Week in Paris by Rachel Hore. I love Hore, she is one of my favourite authors, so I was very excited to be reviewing this book! I really enjoyed this book. I found the beginning of the book a little slow but once I got past […]
Are you like me…do you have more than one book on the go? For me, the breakdown is simple: What I am reading and What I have started but not picked up in a while: What I Am Reading Radical Growth Havilah Cunnington The pathway to the radical growth you’re wanting is not complex. It’s […]
Addition: E-book Genre: Fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 Synopsis: The new novel from bestselling author Rachel Hore, much loved for her stories in which past and present are grippingly entwined.When Emily Gordon, editor at a London publishing house, commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a tricky path […]
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback from the library Genre: Historal Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: Photographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father, Tom. While sifting through his papers, she finds he’d been researching an uncle she never knew he’d had. Intrigued, she visits her father’s childhood home, the once beautiful […]
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Library paperback Genre: Historical mystery, female fiction Rating: 4/5 Synopsis: The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again… Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark forest, crying for her mother. Now her six-year-old niece, Summer, is […]
Synopsis: Magical Cornwall, a lost garden, a love story from long ago… Lamorna Cove – a tiny bay in Cornwall, picturesque, unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today, Mel Pentreath hopes it is a place where she can escape the pain of her mother’s death and a […]