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  Description A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family from the celebrated author of  Standard Deviation . Jane easily falls in love with Duncan: he's charming, good-natured, and handsome. He has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere – at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While she may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she didn't have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, still has Duncan mow her lawn. And his coworker Jimmy comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Jane wonders how the relationship is supposed to work with all these people in it. But any notion Jane has of love and marriage changes with one tragic accident. Now her life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and she knows she w

  Delighted to be on the blog tour for this amazing book. Description Fortune favours the fraud... When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, Ada is given a second chance when her wealthy godmother gifts her with an extravagant art history trip to Italy. In the palazzos of Venice, the cathedrals of Florence and the villas of Rome, she finally finds herself among the kind of people she aspires to be: sophisticated, cultured, privileged. Ada does everything in her power to prove she is one of them. And when a member of the group dies in suspicious circumstances, she seizes the opportunity to permanently bind herself to this gilded set. But everything hidden must eventually surface, and when it does, Ada discovers she's been keeping a far darker secret than she could ever have imagined... Review I love Italy and so to revisit past haunts via this book was just heaven in the present climate. Ad

  Description Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find where you truly belong… Seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isn’t it? Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn – and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful. Missy was used to her small, solitary existence, listening to her footsteps echoing around the empty house, the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. After all, she had made her life her way. Now another life is beckoning to Missy – if she’s brave enough… ‘A touching, deftly written debut that celebrates community and kindness’  Sunday Times ‘Moving and optimistic… will delight readers right up to the very last page’  Stylist ‘Bittersweet, tender, thoughtful and uplifting . . . I loved it’ Nina Stibbe Review I loved, loved, loved this book. Missy is 79 years old and all alone in her big rambling house with too many memories of her family life. Then one day after a bit of a turn

  Delighted to be on the Blog Tour today. Description Westview belongs on a postcard. Quaint, picture-perfect, a tiny New England town steeped in history and traditions.  Angela has always been everything people in Westview want her to be. She’s supposed to be happy here, but she’s starting to see all the flaws in her seemingly-perfect life and she’s afraid that everyone else will notice, too. Now, she wants something more than small towns, something bigger than the life planned out for her by a family that has designed and destroyed reputations in Westview for generations. Owen knows that history can be a lot of lies depending on who tells the story and he’s just discovered the truth about how Westview became a drowned town a century ago. But all he wants is to run away from his own past, from the bad decisions he’s made and the tragedies still haunting him. He’s focused on the future and proving people wrong, even though that means keeping secrets from his friends. Long before they u

  Description The world is at war and her country needs her When Florence’s son, John, announces that he has enlisted, she is horrified but determined to hold her family together during the oncoming hardships they are to face. Men are returning to England wounded, with many more not returning at all, families are struggling, and Florence's ‘Dear Girls’ are risking their lives in new and dangerous jobs. Florence might be older now, but she has no intention of sitting back on her laurels while others fight for King and Country. She knows what needs to be done… Review This is the third book in the Mrs Boots series, but it could be read as a standalone. I think this is the best book yet. I've not read many books set in the 1914 war and so was interested firstly in the book from that point of view. The book covers the war from the perspective of  the Boot family in Nottingham and their employees and the impact it has on all their lives and of course the Boots business. I found it to

Description Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years. She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, the wheelchair . . . Turns out her mother is a really good liar. After five years in prison, Patty Watts is finally free. All she wants is to put old grievances behind her, reconcile with the daughter who testified against her - and care for her new infant grandson. When Rose Gold agrees to have Patty move in, it seems their relationship is truly on the mend. And she has waited such a long time for her mother to come home. But is she still the pliable young girl she once was? And is Patty still as keen on settling an old score? Because if mothers never forget then daughters never forgive. A gripping tale of obsession, reconciliation and revenge from an incredible new talent. Review This isn't the sort of book I would usually go for, but it certainly drew me in and was a real page turner. The book begins with the release of Rose Gold's Mother from prison

  Description The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck. When the police begin to suspect her loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they are looking in the wrong place. For the Queen has been living an extraordinary double life ever since her coronation. Away from the public eye, she has a brilliant knack for solving crimes. With her household's happiness on the line, her secret must not get out. Can the Queen and her trusted secretary Rozie catch the killer, without getting caught themselves? Review This was nearly a DNF (did not finish) for me and if it had been the book and not audio then that is probably what would have happened. As it was I nearly didn't finish the audio, but having it on in the background whilst doing other things it was just ok. I think the narrator did a brilliant job, although her Queen voice did rath