Hidden Treasures by Michelle Adams: Having fallen in wild passionate love at 16 with Benoit, an Arts and artefacts dealer a good 15 years her senior whilst spending the summer in France with her Aunty, Frances returns to England with more than just a broken heart. Pregnant and protecting the Klinkosch […]
In The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan, There’s been rumblings for what seems like years that the department store Carmen works for will be shut down for good. Yet every year they continue on somehow like normal. But this holiday season, the unthinkable happens: Carmen is suddenly unemployed when the […]
The Sunshine Club by Carolyn Brown: Carolyn Brown’s heartwarming storyline will give you lots of warm and fuzzy good feelings and her homey humor will tickle your funny bone. The Sunshine Club consists of three women, Gussie Sadler, Ina Mae Garber and Blanche Ducaine. When they were ten-years-old they formed the […]
In Christmas in Peachtree Bluff (Peachtree Bluff #4) by Kristy Woodson Harvey, With Thanksgiving barreling towards them and Christmas following right behind, Ansley knows she’s in for a chaotic holiday season. But she wouldn’t want it any other way. Having her three grown daughters and their families close means everything […]
In Forgiving Paris by Karen Kingsbury, When Ashley Baxter Blake was asked if she would like to have her paintings featured in her very own gallery showing in Paris, she knew it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Not only would she be proving to herself that she’s made it […]
The Night of Many Endings by Melissa Payne: Initially, what appeared to be a tad long-winded and a bit of a belaboured point turned into a good for the soul honest read that spoke volumes of survival both in and out of complex trauma. Stranded in the town library amidst a […]
In Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, Diana O’Toole and her long time boyfriend Finn have been planning and saving for their dream vacation to the Galápagos for quite some time. With their fast-track careers keeping them busy–she’s an art associate specialist at Sotheby’s, he’s a surgical resident at […]
Steel’s The Butler appears to be a shift in narrative voice from her typical works, given that the central character is male and cut from a type of archaically soft mould that somehow wields power. And within chapters, it is clear that the removed panoramic style that she is famous for, […]
The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu: Jasmine has found herself in a sugary circle and no its not the donuts that she has been munching on, a year after finishing university Jasmine has no job or boyfriend in sight much to her strict Chinese parents disappointment. Which is how she finds […]
Life Unscheduled by Kirsten Rockaway: For Nicole, working for her company Virtuality and her role as Junior AI designer, are literally her entire world. Accordingly, anyone in the tech industry would kill to work there, and with state of the art exercise desks, sleep pods and a dining hall to ensure […]