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book review

Sweet Escape at Bayside, by Addison Cole

This book is the fourth in Addison Cole’s Sweet With Heat Bayside series. In Sweet Passions at Bayside, we saw Desiree find love despite her troubled upbringing. In this book, her sister Violet gets her chance at romance. We met Violet in the other Bayside books. She is strong, bold and unconventional. However, there is […]

The Castle Mystery, by Faith Martin

What a delightful murder mystery (if such a thing can exist!) The Castle Mystery has a classic feel about it from start to finish and is firmly in the Agatha Christie style of books that I have always loved. I think this would also suit fans of Gosford Park and Downton Abbey due to the […]

The Housewife, by Valerie Keogh

  Diane is recovering from a breakdown. She doesn’t know what happpened as she has amnesia and the doctors want to wait for her memory to come back naturally. Her husband is being supportive but is obviously frustrated at her lack of progress. She decides to work voluntarily in a charity shop while her daughter […]

The One Who’s Not The One, by Keris Stainton

  Cat is feeling a bit stuck in a rut. Her job is a bit too easy. Her flat share is not going well. Her love life is non existent. Then she spots in a newspaper that her former love Sam has returned from Australia and is doing a stand up routine about her! She […]

The Baby Detective, by Sarah Norris

Not the usual type of book that I review but I was drawn to this baby advice book having devoured many during my three sets of newborn days and first months. Sarah Norris does not promise to make you an expert on all babies. Instead, she aims to give you the skills to decode what […]