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Archive for July 2021

#MischiefAndMemories blog linky 28

Say hello again to #MischiefAndMemories Some schools have already broken up but we still have 2 weeks to go! Anyway, it’s a new week of our new blog linky! Mischief And Memories is all about your family and lifestyle posts so come and link up! We want: – Connecting and interacting with other bloggers Building […]

Marshlight, by Joy Ellis

Christie visits the fens to conduct research for her employer’s book. She stays with her cousin Liz and partner Matt, retired cops now private investigators. The couple are investigating a woman’s disappearance and are then invited by the police to help with a murder enquiry. But Christie soon provides them with another case… Marshlight is […]

#Project365 2021 week 27

Day 185: steaming through Sunday (a pun for Matthew 🙂 ). I’m sure the time at weekends goes at double speed! Day 186: too tired to cook for myself after Pilates so a quick nachos Day 187: our first transition visit to Matthew’s secondary school to meet his tutor and have a tea party Day […]

Those I Have Lost, by Sharon Maas

India 1930s. Rosie’s first loss is the death of her mother at the age of 10. She goes to live with her mother’s friend Silvia in Ceylon. An idyllic childhood ensues but the Second World War is imminent: who else will she lose…? Those I Have Lost is an historical novel set during the 1930s […]

Queen of Blood, by Sarah Kennedy

England 1553. Mary Tudor ascends the throne and restores Catholicism. But not everyone is happy and rebellion brews… Queen of Blood is the fourth book in Sarah Kennedy’s The Crown and the Cross series but the first book by this author that I have read (something I will swiftly amend!) Set in Tudor England, the […]