THE GHOST OF SEAGULL COTTAGE BY ANNE ALLEN – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Sarnia Press on 14th May 2024 I love Anne’s stories always looking forward to the next one that she very kindly sends me to read for a review. Anne Allen was born in Rugby to a Welsh father and an English mother. As a result, she spent many summers with her Welsh grandparents in Anglesey and learned to love the sea. Now she is based in Devon to be near her daughter and two small grandchildren. Her restless spirit has meant many moves, the longest stay being in Guernsey for nearly fourteen years after falling in love with…
View PostALL THE BEGGARS RIDING BY LUCY CALDWELL – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Faber & Faber When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie was eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early.…
View PostSILENT EVIDENCE BY CLEA KOFF – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Avon on the 29th August 2024 Clea Koff, who is mixed-race and Jewish, was born in 1972 to a Tanzanian mother and an American father, both documentary filmmakers focused on human rights issues. Her parents took her and her older brother, Kimera, with them around the world. She spent her childhood in England, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, and the United States. By the time she was a teenager, she had decided to study human osteology, which she did first in California. She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Stanford University. Koff then went on to the master’s program…
View PostSTRAWBERRY MOON BY JOY M LILLEY – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Long Overdue Books I met this author, Joy, when I was running the writing group in Folkestone, Kent and she kindly gave me her new book to review, I must admit the front cover appealed to me as I am sure it will to others. The setting was the Dordogne in France which is a lovely area easily reached from the south coast in the UK. The Patterson family are starting a new life there with their two teenagers, what starts as a new adventure turns into a period of their lives they would never forget. Maisie who…
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