A Very Modern Marriage is the third instalment of Rachel Brimble’s exciting Victorian saga series, The Ladies of Carson Street. . A Very Modern Marriage He needs a wife…Manchester industrialist William Rose was a poor lad from the slums who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but in order to achieve his greatest ambitions he must become the epitome of Victorian respectability: a family man. She has a plan…But the only woman who’s caught his eye is sophisticated beauty Octavia Marshall, one of the notorious ladies of Carson Street. Though she was once born to great wealth and privilege, she’s…
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Pepper Pot Farm is the third book in the Pepper Bay books that I’ve read and reviewed. Pepper Pot Farm Welcome to Pepper Bay. A small close-knit community where you’ll find chocolate box cottages, quaint shops, drama, friendship, and love. Snuggle down with this cosy, feel-good, comfort read that whisks you away to a beautiful bay on the Isle of Wight – Perfect for fans of Christie Barlow, Phillipa Ashley, and Holly Martin. The Pepper Bay books are standalone stories that intertwine with recurring characters. Tessie Sparrow and Nate Walker have everything a relationship can have, except intimacy. Neither of…
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Have you ever stopped reading? I have and it was such an unusual and uncomfortable time for me. I was in my early ’40s. I would start a book and couldn’t finish it! And this went on for quite a few months. And for a lifelong reader this was like a punishment. I felt so out of sorts and unlike myself. Strangely, it seemed to coincide with my getting married, moving to a new home and a new city. Was it stress, I wondered? But reading has always been my number was to destress! A few months later, I found…