My thanks to Midas PR for the tour invitation and extract for Kate Ruby’s debut novel, Tell Me Your Lies. Does Amber really have Rachel’s best interests at heart or is there something darker going on? Only one thing is…
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura’s husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that…
5. Duckling by Eve Ainsworth, sent for review by Penguin. Because I’m a mood reader I can virtually guarantee that whatever books I selected would no doubt end up still being unread at the end of the 3 months. If…
I tend to read stand alone novels, rather than series, so I can’t point to a hero character. I would like to say Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird. He’s so balanced and understanding, and fair and honest. He…
Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden fault lines beneath the surface of their ordinary family life. This domestic noir feels a bit different to all the others…
There is something about reading books as a teen, or a young woman, at a time when we are profoundly vulnerable and not yet sure of who we are, when words and stories on the page can sneak into our…
The pretty yellow cover is totally at odds with the story within. More than once I thought I was ahead of the story only to be wrong-footed. A Tidy Ending is mesmerising, gripping and so very clever. A definite must…
Jane is a delight to read. Her cheery nature shines through. She marvels at the differences the countryside holds. Always eager to help she comes to understand that nature can be cruel but also that even this can be necessary…
As well as the main protagonists of Eve and Logan, there are some great minor characters such as Freda who runs The Nook, the village shop, and knows everything that’s going on and George, one of the island’s fisherman who…
In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they’ll need to get their own act together before the…
