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  Description Everyone’s welcome. But not everyone leaves… Nick and Amber Miller are splitting up and selling their Devon home. But despite the desirable location, the house isn’t moving. Not a single viewing so far. When their estate agent suggests an open house event, Amber agrees, even as she worries about their gossiping neighbours attending and snooping around their home.   But Amber has more to worry about than nosy neighbours. Because thirteen people enter her house that afternoon, and only twelve leave.   Someone doesn't want the house to sell, and is willing to do  anything  to stop it… Review Wow - this is a page turner. This book begins with Amber having split from her husband and now selling what was his family home. An interfering Mother In Law who doesn't want her to move and take the grandchildren with her or sell her old family home. Pretty pedestrian stuff until the house isn't selling and the estate agent encourages Amber to hold an open house. Soon after

  Description Summer, 1995. July Hooper knows eighteen things about her mother. Like number thirteen: she loved dancing on the kitchen table. And number eight: she was covered in freckles. And then there's number two: she died after being hit by a car when July was small. She keeps this list hidden in a drawer away from her father. Because they're not allowed to talk about her mother. Ever. But an anonymous note slipped into July's bag on her tenth birthday is about to change everything she thinks she knows about her mum. Determined to discover what really happened to her, July begins to investigate, cycling around the neighbourhood where her family used to live. There she meets someone who might finally have the answers. July wants her family to stop lying to her, but will the truth be harder to face? Review I absolutely loved this book.This book is not like anything else I have read before, and these days that's getting rarer for me. Set in the summer of 1995 we follo

  Description Another warm and uplifting book from the author of The Kicking the Bucket List   ‘Feelgood’ Good Housekeeping Has their friendship stood the test of time? The Class of ’72, Sara, Ally, Jo and Mitch were as close as sisters, then life intervened and the four friends lost touch. Now in her sixties, Sara has realized – late in the day – that those women were the best friends she’d ever had and is determined to get the gang back together. Ally is facing a huge turning point in her life and Jo, after years of being chief cook and bottle washer, needs to put herself first after a wake-up call. None of them know what happened to Mitch. The coolest and most enigmatic of the foursome doesn’t want to be found and it seems that even after all these years, the women are still keeping a few secrets from each other… Review Nice to read about a group of friends who are mature ladies. I loved the beginning of this book. A mature lady who works in daytime TV and is being let go, what will

  Description The Orient Express. Luxury. Mystery. Romance. For one group of passengers settling in to their seats and taking their first sips of champagne, the journey from London to Venice is more than the trip of a lifetime. A mysterious errand; a promise made to a dying friend; an unexpected proposal; a secret reaching back a lifetime...As the train sweeps on, revelations, confessions and assignations unfold against the most romantic and infamous setting in the world. Review Just perfect. It's taken me a long time to get around to reading this book but I am so very glad I did. It was just delightful.  It took a while before we boarded the Orient Express. The actual trip on the Orient Express is not taken up by that much of the book, but the descriptions of both the train and the views were so worthwhile. The book begins in the past and I settled right into it.  Despite having quite a large group of characters who all end up on the train, each of the backstories was so well writ

  Description CAUTION:   THIS BOOK IS ADDICTIVE  . . . 'A brilliant, brilliant novel. Incredbily gripping and scary!'  Susanna Reid,  Good Morning Britain 'Had me gripped from start to finish.'  Jane Fallon 'Creepy, paranoid and shocking.'  Alex Michaelides 'Twisty, insightful and completely absorbing.'  Celia Walden 'Everyone needs to buy and read it.'  Rob Rinder _____________ How well do you know the people next door? You've moved to your dream home: a gorgeous honey-coloured house in the country. It's a new beginning: your chance to put the terrible truth of what happened to you in the city behind you. But your new neighbours have secrets of their own. Terrifying secrets. Unimaginable secrets. And when you learn about the previously happy family who lived - and died - in your house, you start to wonder how safe you really are . . . Review Initially I thought this was going to be edge of the seat stuff, but unfortunately it paled. With

  Description Tuesday morning starts like any other – until Terry discovers her best friend Iris has gone missing. Finding her takes Terry, Iris and Terry’s confused father Eugene, into an extraordinary journey – one that will change all of their lives. And, along the way, what should be the worst six days of Terry’s life turn into the best. Because friendship teaches us all to be brave. And, sometimes, the rules are made to be broken. Review This is a great novel about friendship, I just wished it had mentioned the dementia aspect in the book blurb. Whilst in the main I enjoyed this book, the fact that Eugene has dementia and is not just "confused" as the description stated was at times hard for me to read. I also felt for Eugene as he was traipsed around on the road trip. Someone with dementia needs stability and little change and this was far from that, although he didn't seem to do too badly with it and the subject was dealt with sensitively.  Another surprise and thi