Not a great book. The characters were rather one-dimensional - the bitter wife, the selfish son, the selfish daughter who turns into the unselfish daughter when her own child is born, the feisty straight-talking matriarch, the quirky friend, the gay hairdresser. They were all cliches. The story w...
I picked this book up because of the blurb on the back sounded intriguing. I didn't regret it. Erica James is a superb writer. Instead of writing directly about the tsunami she writes about the changes to relationships that can occur after surviving something as horrendous as that. However, the b...
An enjoyable light, entertaining read, though not the best novel from Erica James. The characters come across strongly - I liked Ella and feisty Maggie, thought Ethan was weak and his wife and friend too one- sided and bitchy. I got slightly irritated early on with the frequent introspection pa...
I was pleased to receive a free copy of this book via Goodreads and read it over the weekend. Sadly, I realised that I expect more from a book than a light romantic read now. I am sorry but it just wasn't for me. I imagine the storyline would hold more appeal to older readers. I can't imagine my ...
The Holiday was published in 2008, as it is set in Corfu I thought it would be the ideal book to take with me on holiday this year. It was really interesting to read her descriptions of the beautiful island of Corfu whilst I was actually there, I actually read the chapter where the lead chara...
In order to spend more time with her four-year-old son Ned, Clara Costello trades in her secure, well-paid job and sports car for a camper van called Winnie, and the three of them set off on a mystery tour of England. Of course, her friends and family think she's gone mad. But when they arrive in...
On the Richter scale of bad ideas it was certainly up there with the cherry liqueurs. Unquestionably Clayton’s heart had been in the right place when he’d planned his surprise for Barry and Stacey, and if the outcome hadn’t been as it was, surely they would have seen the f...
‘She’ll be free in about fifteen minutes if you’d like to call back,’ the school secretary told her. A meeting, face to face, was probably a better way of dealing with the matter, but Harriet didn’t want to take any more time off work unnecessarily. Nor did she want to take the easy way out by te...
Annoyingly, if she hadn’t stayed on to help in the office and discuss the idea with Tony of adding Endeavour to sit alongside the Morse and Lewis tours, she would have made it home in the dry. With traffic rumbling past and icy pinpricks of rain stinging her face as she pedalled furiously along S...
They hadn’t bothered with breakfast, and now, at nine thirty, with Lloyd calling out that he’d made them something to eat, they didn’t need telling twice. Sitting in the courtyard, Katie tucked in with hungry relish to the bacon sandwich Lloyd had given her. ‘Mmm . . . sublime,’ she said, wiping ...
Tattie had encouraged him to make the trip; she seemed to think he might cheer his sister up. He wasn’t totally convinced, but he was willing to give it a shot. In fact before Tattie had said anything he had already decided – after Eliza hadn’t returned any of his calls or messages – to see her. ...