Winter: Winter 2020 has come and we are still in the clutches of coronavirus. I hope with all my heart that it is teaching us all something.… Read more “#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Winter issue 2020, no.68 @FoxedQuarterly”
#bookreview Inspire by Ben Fogle published by William Collins
Amazon: What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the… Read more “#bookreview Inspire by Ben Fogle published by William Collins”
#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Autumn issue 2020, no.67 @FoxedQuarterly
Autumn: Something about rainy days seems to galvanise me into composing my seasonal reviews for the quarterly magazine from Slightly Foxed and today is no different. The… Read more “#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Autumn issue 2020, no.67 @FoxedQuarterly”
#bookreview Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman published by Scribner
Amazon: We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it… Read more “#bookreview Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman published by Scribner”
#bookreview Fifty words for snow by Nancy Campbell published by Elliott and Thompson
Amazon: Snow. Every language has its own words for the feather-like flakes that come from the sky. In Japanese we find Yuki-onna – a ‘snow woman’ who… Read more “#bookreview Fifty words for snow by Nancy Campbell published by Elliott and Thompson”
#bookreview The Winter Garden by Heidi Swain published by Simon and Schuster UK
Amazon: Freya Fuller is living her dream, working as a live-in gardener on a beautiful Suffolk estate. But when the owner dies, Freya finds herself forced out… Read more “#bookreview The Winter Garden by Heidi Swain published by Simon and Schuster UK”
#bookreview The Nesting by CJ Cooke published by HarperCollinsUK released 15 October 2020
Amazon: The grieving widower.The motherless daughters.A beautiful house in the woods. Deep in a remote Norwegian forest, Lexi has found a new home with architect Tom and… Read more “#bookreview The Nesting by CJ Cooke published by HarperCollinsUK released 15 October 2020”
#bookreview Where we belong by Anstey Harris published by Simon & Schuster
Amazon: One summer.One house.One family learning to love again. Cate Morris and her son, Leo, are homeless, adrift. They’ve packed up the boxes from their London home, said goodbye… Read more “#bookreview Where we belong by Anstey Harris published by Simon & Schuster”
#bookreview Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens
Amazon: For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase… Read more “#bookreview Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens”
#bookreview The Midnight Library by Matt Haig published by Canongate
Amazon: Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up… Read more “#bookreview The Midnight Library by Matt Haig published by Canongate”
