Slow start but really got going once Vita and Oliver crossed paths. Quiet a sweet love story. I think it must be very hard to date a widower, impossible not to feel second best I would have thought. So I was feeling very sympathetic towards Vita as she tried to deal with it. Shed a few tears towa...
I am trying to read less 'chick-lit' these days but this author is a particular favourite of mine and her books are not as trashy as many out there so definitely one to pick up in the library. She always develops her characters well and so you want to read on to find out what happens to them. I l...
I love Freya’s novels – usual light, full of quirky heroines and with recurring themes of intense female friendship and lots of lovely rude sex, they are nearly always on my summer reading list.In a departure from tradition, “Love Rules” breaks away from her conventional formula of concentrating ...
Polly vertrekt voor een jaar naar de VS vanwege een uitwisselingsproject. Dat jaar heeft een effect op haar relatie met Max, onder andere door een stomme fout die ze maakt. Hier wordt ze uiteindelijk voor gestraft. Hoewel het voor een groot deel toch haar eigen schuld is, bleef ik toch met haar m...
No, it's no good; I can't take it any more! I tried to ignore the weird changes of tense and the insistence on trying to fit a one-liner at the end of every chapter. I continued in the face of purple prose, yawned through descriptions of Richard shopping and cooking, showering and dressing for hi...
For my hospital visit today I decided to take Freya North's Home Truth paperback with me to see me through the tedious day. It is the second book by Freya North I have read and I found it was as good as the first. An easy read that does not require enormous amounts of concentration which helps wh...
And Michelle repeated, What! What! at the other end of the phone line. The excitement in Vita’s voice was contagious. ‘I really like him.’ ‘Yes, yes – but you’re skipping the details. So, you left the posh park place, had a licky ice cream, went for a pizza and then what?’ ‘We came back here – to...
Perhaps it had something to do with Cat’s place being very much a home. Initially this had been a great comfort to Oriana, having left hers in the United States and then finding the antithesis to exist at her mother’s. Eventually though, Cat’s set-up rubbed a newly exposed nerve in Oriana so raw ...
She woke at gone ten, by which time Arlo had been awake for an hour. He had been watching her for the best part of half an hour. The worst part of half an hour had been on waking, when a sense of dread had swept over him in a dark wave. He had lain beside Petra, not daring to turn or look. He'd k...
It was beautiful because it could be played out against a backdrop of early summer, which had arrived now for good in a burst of bluebells and the clement weather scenting the air. The crocus might now have gone and the dog violet was on its way out, but primula sprang a chorus of yellow and crea...
You became the artist’s muse; immortalized, written in stone, both locked and released from the very fabric of the mineral. You were the inspiration for the piece, you were the solution for the sculptor’s incarcerated creativity. Born of the rock. The reason for the stone. Conceived, carved, poli...