The Wedding is a psychological thriller from a new author to me and I’m happy to review it today. The Wedding Just four words were printed in the card. He doesn’t love you. I’ve been dreaming about this day – marrying Adam, my childhood sweetheart, who I’ve loved for eighteen years. I didn’t realise the perfect day would turn into the perfect nightmare. I was so excited to send out the wedding invitations, carefully writing everyone’s names on thick cream paper in beautiful cursive script. I had no idea I was inviting someone to destroy our marriage. I couldn’t wait to…

Having read Vanessa Carnevale’s My Life For Yours I just had to read A Child Of My Own. A Child Of My Own As I watch her walk away, an arm raised to her face as she wipes tears from her eyes, I wonder if I really can go through losing her again. Because if I do this, I might gain a child, but I’ll lose her in the process. Isla and Ben are devoted parents to their beloved daughter, Reese. She is their little miracle, the child they thought they’d never have until donors made her existence possible. But Isla has never told…

Many years ago I read Sunday’s Child, an autobiographical account written by Anne Lyken-Garner, of her difficult childhood in Guyana. In many ways, that book made the reading of The Far Away Girl a much richer experience. The Far Away Girl She dreamed of finding a new life… Georgetown, Guyana 1970. Seven-year-old Rita is running wild in her ramshackle white wooden house by the sea, under the indulgent eye of her absent-minded father. Surrounded by her army of stray pets, free to play where she likes and climb the oleander trees, she couldn’t feel more alive. But then her new stepmother Chandra arrives and the house empties of love…