Jane Start is a music star who had a hit ten years ago, but who has had middling success since. When the writer of her original song, Jonesy, contacts her about performing at the Royal Albert Hall, she reluctantly gets on a plane, where she meets cute with a handsome Oxford English Professor. Soon they …
Grace has been avoiding life and avoiding her moms calls for years, but when her Elvis obsessed mother decides she wants to go on a road trip to Graceland for her 70th birthday, and Grace finds herself suddenly single, she agrees to go. It's a trip that may shake up her life and change her …
Continue reading A Thousand Miles To Graceland by Kristen Mei Chase
Set during WWII, this is the story of a child being sent to America to escape the bombing in London, and how that choice impacts the lives of two families forever. 11 year old Beatrix is sent by boat to Boston in 1940, where she stays with the Gregorys, going from her working class parents …
When Natasha and Rob take a holiday to rekindle their failing marriage, they accidentally leave their infant daughters beloved toy cow behind. Back in the Cotsolds, Natasha goes online to try and track it down, and a man called Duffy just happens to have it. But he's on his way to the Himalayas. Duffy promises …
When Vega, daughter of the last astronomer, sees the twin stars on the horizon, she knows that it's the sign several generations have been waiting for. She leaves the safety of the valley and the only home she's ever known to go in search of someone known as The Architect. But she has to hide …
Western Australia, 1896. Eliza Brightwell decides to take matters into her own hands when her father mysteriously disappears off his boat while out on a pearl diving expedition with his crew. Time is of the essence when the local constabulary are clearly intent on arresting the wrong man and she must race to find out …
Continue reading Moonlight and The Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook
Since her parent's deaths, Lavender has made money selling flowers grown in the garden that supplied their apothecary shop, along with the orphan boy they took in. It's hard work with little chance of reward, and it looks like she may lose the house and garden, when a chance encounter with a famous medium who …
Six summers ago, on Long Island, three people were found murdered on the beach with sand dollars placed over their eyes, but the killer was never caught. This Summer, the dead refuse to stay dead as something Mina and Evelyn did back then comes back to haunt them. Literally. The lore around Mina's family and …
Continue reading The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman
This book felt like a breath of fresh air after some of the more serious/heavy things I've been reading lately. Gabby longs to be close to her sisters again, like she remembers them being before their mother died suddenly when they were young, their father seemed to abandon them and they ended up being raised …
Born into money in the Mid-West, Nanee finds her true home in Paris. So when war breaks out and the German tanks enter the city, rather than leaving, she stays and joins the Resistance. She helps get famous artists targeted by the Nazi's out of the country and also carries messages, being dubbed The Postmistress. …
Continue reading The Postmistress Of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
