• Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    Summer Secrets at Streamside Cottage

    This is my first book by this author and I didn’t know what to expect. I must confess that I thought Summer Secrets at Streamside Cottage was going to be a light romance. It totally surprised me. Summer Secrets at Streamside Cottage A new start can come from the most unexpected places… It’s been years since Lizzie Lockhart spoke to her parents. But she was safe in the knowledge she knew everything about them. Once upon a time, they were as close as could be. Until they weren’t. After receiving the earth-shattering news of their passing, Lizzie decides it’s time…

  • Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    Chasing The Sun

    I had just finished Judy Leigh’s Heading Over The Hill, which I thoroughly enjoyed, when I realized that I was meant to review Chasing The Sun and that made me so happy. Description of Chasing The Sun Sun, Sangria and new starts, from the author of the bestselling Five French Hens. Molly’s seventieth birthday comes as something of a shock. The woman in the mirror certainly looks every day of those seventy years, but inside Molly feels she still has so much more living left to do. Widowed and living alone with her cat Crumper, Molly fears she is slipping into…

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    Summer in Andalucia

    Having read Lucy Coleman’s A Springtime to Remember and The French Adventure, I was keen to read Summer in Andalucia. Summer in Andalucia Lainey Summers feels blessed to have her dream job writing for a renowned foodie magazine. And the day she goes to interview chef Rick Oliver at his new restaurant—Aleatory—in London’s popular Piccadilly, is the start of an unexpected journey. When Rick is offered the opportunity to jet off to a monastery in Andalucía, to film a cookery competition for Spanish TV, Lainey goes too, to cover the story. Spending a month filming in the stunning Spanish countryside,…