• Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    The Mothers Of Victory Street

    July 25, 2021 - By 

    The Mothers of Victory Street is book #3 in a lovely series about the Bryant Sisters – not really sisters, but the name of their singing trio. I’ve read and reviewed The Girls of Victory Street and Wedding Bells on Victory Street and was happy to follow their story. The Mothers Of Victory Street From Amazon charts bestseller Pam Howes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting historical novel about a young woman trying to snatch her chance at happiness amongst the ruins of World War Two. 1946, Liverpool. Bella Harrison cannot believe the devastating war that stole the lives of her father and…

  • Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    Captivating The Cynical Earl

    July 23, 2021 - By 

    It’s been a while since I read a Regency Romance and so I was pleased to be able to read and review, Captivating the Cynical Earl, Catherine Tinley’s latest historical romance. Captivating The Cynical Earl The cool, aloof earl And the enchanting lady For Jack Beresford, Earl of Hawkenden, emotional entanglements are the path to pain. But when his brother brings his new wife and her best friend to his country home, everything changes. Lady Cecily Thornhill is both vibrant and beautiful, and Jack finds himself increasingly captivated by her sunny nature. Yet he must resist her charms, for in…

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    Books & Book Reviews - Non-Fiction

    Coconut

    July 13, 2021 - By 

    Coconut by Florence Ọlájídé is her story – a Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her search for belonging and identity. ‘By the time I was six years old, I knew my life was marked by difference. I was either too Black, too White, too young or too feisty…’ Florence Ọlájídé Coconut A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families and then taken to Nigeria by their parents. Coconut is the true story of one of those children. North London, 1963. Nan fosters one-year-old…