• Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    Wartime Blues for the Harpers Girls

    I was glad to be able to read and review another book by Rosie Clarke. I had earlier read Lizzie’s Secret another wartime book like Wartime Blues For The Harpers Girls. LONDON 1917 As the Americans enter the War, there is renewed energy in the war effort.   With husbands and sons fighting for freedom, the women of Harpers are left to tackle the day-to-day affairs at home and work. With Ben Harper away, Sally fears she is being followed by a mysterious woman. Who is she and what does she want? Maggie Gibbs collapses seriously ill in the frontline hospitals…

  • Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    Vicki’s Work of Heart

    Having read a few of Rosie Dean’s books I was looking forward to reading another of her books and was not disappointed. Rosie’s novel, Vicki’s Work of Heart, is on a birthday blog tour today, organised by Rachel of Rachel’s Random Resources.  Stranded at the altar, knee-deep in her fiancé’s gambling debts, Vicki Marchant seizes her freedom and moves to France, to paint.It’s her time. No man will get in the way of her ambition again.She learns two things: some men are hard to resist, and her judgement of them is still on the dodgy side. Review of Vicki’s Work of Heart…

  • Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    Being Netta Wilde

    An uplifting story of love, loss and second chances that celebrates friendship and human connections, Being Netta Wilde is the first book I’ve read by this author. Being Netta Wilde Netta Wilde was all the things Annette Grey isn’t. Netta Wilde was raw, unchecked and just a little bit rebellious. She loved The Clash and she loved being Netta Wilde. Annette Grey is an empty, broken woman who hardly knows her own children. Of course, it’s her own fault. She’s a bad mother. An unnatural mother. At least, that’s what her ex-husband tells her. The one thing she is good…