• Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    An Ordinary Life

    Amanda Prowse is one of my favourite authors. This is book #13 of hers that I’m reading and she never fails to disappoint. The last book of hers that I read and reviewed here, The Boy Between, a much more personal book she co-authored with her son, Josh. An Ordinary Life From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a tale of love, loss—and one last extraordinary dance. Christmas Eve, 2019. Ninety-four-year-old Molly lies in her hospital bed. A stroke and a fall may have broken her body—but her mind is alive with memories. London, 1940s. Molly is a…

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    A Wild Legacy

    In December I shared my review of The Wild Heart here. That was Book #2 of Celeste De Blasis’ Wild Swan Trilogy. A Wild Legacy is Book #3. I so enjoyed both of these books that I got myself a copy of Book #1 of the trilogy, A Wild Hope . A Wild Legacy Lexy Culhane follows in stunned silence as her father bundles her younger brothers onto the train in a midnight flight away from the only life they have ever known. It seems impossible to her that her gentle, loving mother could have shot a man. Despite the shock,…

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    The Dream That Held Us

    “The Dream That Held US took me on an exquisite exploration if a love that crosses boundaries of time and culture.”  Angela Barton author of Arlette’s Story, Magnolia House and You’ve Got My Number “Deeply imbued with a certain wistfulness and haunting sense of loss brought out by the end of a glorious summer… Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang’s latest novel is a sensitive and skilful exploration of love, longing, and whether life sometimes relents to give us second chances.” Osama Siddique – author of Snuffing Out the Moon “This book carries a universal message about love and finding your way in…