After the Crash

The room was almost silent.  A a slight chill from the temporarily shaded sun gave me a shiver.  Silence was broken every time a bleep emitted from the machine that the body had been attached to.  I call it a body, because it was impossible to distinguish at a first glance whether it was male …

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My Review – Watch For Me By Twilight by Kirsty Ferry

Delivered to my kindle by the wonderful Choc-Lit for an honest review! Read over a couple of sunny summer days, swinging in a hammock beneath a cherry tree. Synopsis Lady Cassandra, known as Cassie, decides to relieve her heavily pregnant sister in law, Elodie, of the burden of an open event at Hartsford Hall.  Not …

My Review – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

August Book Club Title Read over an August night, lying next to a sighing husband, who does not seem impressed with the new bedroom reading lights!  It should also be mentioned, that he, of husband fame, is not a fan of an emotional reader: Giggling, weeping or otherwise, and especially at hours between 0100 and …

My Review – Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen

A generous loan from a friend and teacher! Read during convalescence, Spring 2018. Synopsis Maggie Monroe is an American journalist who is fiercely independent and courageous. Less than thrilled to be saddled with researching the decline of the English Aristocracy she sets off to England with two male colleagues. Rory Bevan is flailing at keeping …

My Review – Summer at Carrick Park by Kirsty Ferry

Delivered to my kindle by the superb choc-lit team in return for an honest review. Consumed in an evening along with a large portion of chocolate fudge cake! Well, needs must. Synopsis Rosa Tempest has many skills, but a lasting relationship does not appear to be one of them.  During a shift on reception at …

My Best Friend

Davy and I grew up together, he was my cousin, we were born 7 days apart. I remember the first time I saw his dad punch him, we were about 8 or 9.  We were sat on the stairs of his house, having been out on one of our wanders, there was little to do …

My Review – The Truth Lies Buried by Morton S. Gray

Delivered directly to my kindle by the lovely people of Choc-Lit for an honest review. Read over a couple of weekday evenings, in the sticky heat of a city in summer. Synopsis Jenny returns to her childhood home, the seaside town of Borteen, in sad circumstances.  Facing the future,  and encouraged by her friend, she …

A Work In Progress

Having started in earnest to actually write something destined for publication yesterday, I am once again harassed by my thoughts running away with themselves.  I have had an active mind since the minute I first breathed life.  I am an insomniac, manic over thinker and worrier.   I will endure. I have never been one to …

My Review – Little Pink Taxi by Marie Laval

This book was delivered to my kindle by the lovely team at choc-lit for an honest review. Read over a couple of warm summer nights of 2018 for sanity, and as a backdrop to end of school term shenanigans accompanied by my current tipple, Seville Tanquery Gin and Tonic, blissful! Synopsis   Rosalie Heart drives …

Pants

The radio blared on with inconsequential nonsense, it was the six o’clock news headlines. Nothing made sense, I did not want to be awake. Surely I had only just closed my eyes! The night before had been a scramble to get back into our own bed from the put-you-up in the downstairs play room. We …