One Last Secret by Adele Parks is due out 8th December. Please see the trailer here
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Never Forget You by Fiona Lucas is a powerful contemporary novel about love. It is a love that just sinks into your heart and soul. It is also about grief and finding yourself.
There is a great love that is selfless and just keeps on giving. Sometimes you meet a person and you just know that they are your soulmate.
With grief comes guilt. There is a guilt about things left undone. This guilts blindfolds a soul to all the good they have done.
We see characters who have unique gifts that need nurturing and not squashing. We see that these gifts can make a soul feel really alive.
Family is important. Family loves us and sometimes knows us better than we know ourselves.
There are the difficult themes of gaslighting and love bombing. The reader recognizes these from the outset, and our heart breaks for a character. We are crying out for an already fragile soul as the person becomes even more lost.
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The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick is a marvellous dual timeline novel that had me enthralled from the start.
The book is set in present day and 1598 in the lead up to the Gunpowder Plot. Chapters alternate, as do the voices, with the action being seen through the eyes of the leading ladies – in the third person in present day and in the first person in 1598.
Living in a barn called Gunpowder Barn in the grounds of the old Catesby cottage provides a link to the past. It is all very atmospheric as there seems to be a thin veil between the two time periods.
We witness that sadness in the present attracts sadness in the past. A love will not rest until the past has surrendered its secrets.
A mother’s love is strong. We witness several instances. Life in the sixteenth century was precarious, not all children born, survived. A veil of grief is palpable.
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Snowed In For Christmas by Sarah Morgan is the most charming festive offering that will warm your heart on even the coldest day.
The setting could hardly be more perfect – snowed in in an isolated Scottish family home where love, laughter and care live. It is a home where strangers are welcomed into the heart of the family.
Sarah Morgan has once more created a marvelous set of characters who lodge in the reader’s hearts. I adored them all from Hunter the dog to Nana Jean. Nana Jean at eighty six yeas old does not believe in wasting time. She says just what she is thinking which is absolutely hilarious. Her mouth has no filter. She is definitely my favourite character, although I loved them all.
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