‘Happiness begins when you stop chasing Mr Perfect and start choosing yourself’– Love, Lies & Sticky Toffee Pudding [ About Love, Lies & Sticky Toffee Pudding ] Successful lawyer, Charlotte Bloom, has been dumped for the 100th time. She invites her ex-boyfriend on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Barbados, to help her understand why. She knows…
‘The crocus on the book cover of When Secrets Bloom is no mere embellishment. It’s the novel’s pulse. Chosen with intention, it mirrors the quiet force of the women within: those who wait, who remember, who hold fast through the frost.‘– When Secrets Bloom Today I am delighted to welcome back Patricia Furstenberg, author of…
‘A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland’– Fun and Games [ About Fun and Games ] Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no idea what he wants. It’s his last summer on the small island where he has grown up and he should be enjoying…
‘In my life, there are things that have happened to me, and things that I have done, that have proven to be moments that have a clear before and an after. One of those moments, perhaps in some ways the biggest, was the day that I met Richard Aveling for the first time.’– Bitter Sweet…
‘You do not say anything but want to get up and run out of the house. The sitting room is the same as it was twenty years ago, you sit in the same armchair, your mother sits in the same place, the windows look out on the same houses, yet everything is different, and it…
This year I made a very conscious decision to bring some older books with me on holidays to Portugal in July. These were books that had been languishing on my own personal tbr pile for quite some time. I did bring my Kindle as backup but, as it turned out, I didn’t need it. Instead…
‘That’s it, it’s all she gets. Fragments. Discarded scenes she rescues from the cutting-room floor that she replays, knows by heart’– The Good Mistress [ About The Good Mistress ] The affair is over – so what does she have to lose? Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only…
I’ve been on holidays for the last couple of weeks so I am gently (very slowly) dipping my toes back into blogging. Today I really wanted to mention a brilliant blog post that went live when I was away. It features an international collaboration of approximately twenty bloggers that I was only too delighted to…
‘Mimi Truang did not yet know that her baby was gone. She sat back and closed her eyes, coffee in hand.’– My Other Heart [ About My Other Heart ] May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before…
‘Your child has been kidnapped.You’re live on television.’– Dead Line [ About Dead Line ] Going live in 10, 9, 8 . . .Today is a huge day for TV reporter Rose’s career. A live interview with one of the most powerful men in the country, on one of the nation’s biggest TV shows.7, 6,…