My Review for My Grandmother's Inn by Kristen Harper

‘A message sent with love always finds its way from one heart to another’.What a beautiful read My Grandmother’s Inn was, I wanted to visit Molly at Hydrangea House from the get-go. I wanted to stroll along the beach and watch the iridescent sunset that Kristin Harper writes so beautifully about. I wanted to join in with the guests and savour the delicious pastries that Molly collects from the bakery every morning. My Grandmother’s Inn shows...

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My Review for Liar Liar by L.G.Davis read by Tanya Eby

Liar Liar has to be one of the most accurate titles for a book that I’ve seen in a long time. Everything, from start to finish, is a lie. Every single character seems to be a liar, or at least someone who hides the truth... I loved it! Every chapter just gives you something different, another twist to the story and another link to what might have happened in the past.Narrated by Tanya Eby, I listened to Liar Liar as an audiobook and she really drew...

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My Review for The Cuban Daughter by Soraya Lane

Written across two timelines, The Cuban Daughter is set both in London and Cuba, following Esmeralda in 1950 and Claudia in the present day. Claudia sets out to discover what happened to her great-grandmother in Cuba in 1950 and just how she came to be in London.I was entranced by The Cuban Daughter from start to finish, and I loved Soraya Lane’s writing about Cuban history and culture, and the time-warp concept of the entire country. Cuba is definitely...

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My Review for The Loch by Fran Dorricott

Twenty years ago, three young women disappeared, never to be found. The rumour to this day is that their bodies are still hidden deep within the murky Loch Aven.A time-slip novel, ‘then’, mainly told from the viewpoint of Rebecca, and ‘present day’, told from Eleanor’s perspective with a few other characters intermingled in the storytelling. Eleanor, Clio and Michaela are on a girls’ holiday in Scotland and sunny, it is not! Wet, misty, dismal and...

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My Review for The Man I Met on Holiday by Fiona Gibson

If you want a book to get you in the mood for warmer weather, then grab a copy of The Man I Met on Holiday by Fiona Gibson. Happy, lighthearted, funny and huggy. I guarantee it will leave you wanting to linger in the sunshine with a pina colada, with the sun on your back and the breeze blowing through your hair.Lauren and James are two single people on holiday in Corsica. James is flying solo and Lauren might as well be, as her son is keeping to...

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My Review for Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

“Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died”.I was literally chairbound. From start to finish, I couldn’t put this book down. Sally Diamond was definitely strange with severe mental health problems, but who wouldn’t be with the start in life that she had? For me, she was a loveable character, and I just wanted to put my arm around...

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My Review for Letters to a Stranger by Sarah Mitchell

I wasn’t sure about this book when I began to read. Cassie and Noah (mother and son) are camped out in a caravan in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, and their reasons for being there become clear as you read. With dual timelines of 2020 and 1940, the entire book is made-up of letters and diary entries (1940) and letters, texts and emails (2020). By the middle of the second part of the book, (there are seven), I was well and truly hooked! Dive...

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