This book was so delicious. I tore right through it There is mystery. What is the connection between these women we meet in different chapters at the beginning of the book? There is betrayal. By a husband, by a friend. There is abandonment. By a parent, by a mentee. And the settings are glorio...
My review of The Flirt by Kathleen TessaroWould it be every man’s dream to be paid to flirt with women? Hughie thinks he has found this dream job that starts with a cream colored card secretively given to a woman to capture her attention, curiosity, and imagination. Kathleen Tessaro takes the re...
Wouldn’t it be marvellous if none of us needed it? But, alas, while some beauties are born, most of us are made. Make-up is a kind of clothing for the face, and in the city a woman would no more think of showing herself without make-up than she would care to walk down the street completely undres...
I asked. “Aren’t you even a little curious to see your name on a brass plaque?” “After all, it’s a lovely name, Diana,” said a man behind us. We both turned. Very thin and gangly, with a narrow pale face and round soulful eyes, he smiled shyly, his chin sloping straight into his long neck at such...
‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ she admitted, handing it back to Cate. ‘It’s not really my area of expertise. It looks like an old Girl Guide badge or something, only it’s too old for all that. Why don’t you ask Laurence at stall twenty-eight? I have a feeling it’s something to do with the wa...