The Black Dress by Deborah Moggach

My thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me to take part in this blog tour, and to the publisher, Tinder Press?Headline, for providing a proof copy. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Carer Deborah Moggach’s The Black Dress is a beautifully observed, darkly funny, tender and … Continue reading The Black Dress by Deborah Moggach →

One Last Time by Helga Flatland

My thanks to Anne Cater and to the publisher, Orenda Books, for inviting me to take part in this blog tour. I received an ebook to read ahead of taking part, and this review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Anne’s diagnosis of terminal cancer shines a spotlight onto fractured relationships with her daughter and granddaughter, … Continue reading One Last Time by Helga Flatland →

The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke

I received an ebook version of The Lost Love Song via Netgalley. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Arie and Diana were destined to be together. Arie falls for Diana in a heartbeat. Their love creates a life for them, a marriage and a home. Pianist Diana wants to capture this in a song … Continue reading The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke →

In The Sweep of The Bay by Cath Barton

I pre-ordered and bought this book direct from the publisher of my own choice. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Ted Marshall meets Rene in the dancehalls of Morecambe and they marry during the frail optimism of the 1950s. They adopt the roles expected of man and wife at the time: he the breadwinner … Continue reading In The Sweep of The Bay by Cath Barton →

All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

My thanks to Jenny Platt at Hodder & Stoughton for inviting me to take part in this blog tour. The decision to take part in my own and this review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone.He just needs to realise it. In weekly phone calls to his daughter … Continue reading All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle →

Thank you, Lucy Ellman

Yesterday I read the Guardian interview with Lucy Ellman and quietly seethed as I read *that* paragraph. The one where she essentially assigns mothers to two decades of being vapid airheads after giving birth. I probably shouldn't be writing this post, particularly given the fact that I have another eighteen years to serve before I'm … Continue reading Thank you, Lucy Ellman →