Tommy struggles with people, with communicating, preferring solitude, drifting off with nature. He is protected by his Tinker family who keep to old ways. A life of quiet seclusion under canvas is all that he knows. Charlotte cares for her sickly father. She meets Tommy by the riverside and an unexpected friendship develops. Over the years it becomes something more, something crucial to both of them. But when tragedy strikes each family they are torn apart. Charlotte is sent far away. Tommy might have done something very bad.

My Thoughts:

Charlotte and Tommy are two very different people but when a chance encounter leads to a friendship for the both of them it is not what either of them were expecting. But can they help each other out with what is going on in their lives. I liked learning more about each of their lives and the bond that they develop. But when something terrible happens they are forced apart can they find a way to be together or is that bond broken for good. It was a good read that I couldn’t put down, it was engaging and a powerful story.

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What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love?

Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But as the two of them navigate this freedom, Warren and Bridgette’s relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness.

When she comes across an old list of things she wanted to do “maybe one of these days,” Maggie decides to live life to the fullest and accomplish these dreams. Maggie keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can’t help but worry, even as Sydney grows more and more suspicious about their friendship. But if she’s going to move past this jealousy, she’ll need to reconcile how she and Ridge came together with the fact that Maggie will always be in their lives somehow…or end up walking away from the man she loves so much.

My Thoughts:

This is the third book in the Maybe Someday Series and to enjoy it you really need to read the first two books to get to know the characters. It was nice to get reacquainted with Ridge, Sydney, Maggie and Warren, you feel as though you know them after reading all three books. This book is mainly Maggie’s story and about her life but it also continues with the other’s lives too. It was another nice easy read which I enjoyed. I loved the ending.

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Today, nothing is going right for Em. And it’s about to get much worse.
Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering, dishonest men – the boss who sexually harassed her and the flatmate sleeping with her behind his fiancée’s back. But all Em can think about is catching a flight to attend her sister’s wedding and see her dying mother.

With a record-breaking heatwave, and a serial killer making the streets unsafe, London is completely gridlocked. Em’s life has always been full of men getting their own way, and today the scorched city teems with them standing between her and home. As Em’s troubled past returns to haunt her, she refuses to let them win. Her defiance leads to shocking consequences that soon spiral wildly out of control.

In a world where men don’t listen, and girls have no voice, one woman can change everything.
Today, no one will be staying silent.

My Thoughts:

Em has a lot going on in her life right now and really needs a light at the end of the tunnel. London is going through a heatwave and all Em needs to do is get to the airport to catch a flight to her sister’s wedding, but everything is going wrong and she doesn’t know if she will catch her flight on time or if she will ever get to the airport. I did feel sorry for what she had to endure, everything was up the spout and with no end in sight. I enjoyed the story throughout and the parts that included twitter were fun to read, it broke up the story a little. I was engaged from the start and didn’t know where the story was going to go, but the twists shocked me and the ending was absolutely fantastic. This book is going to be a real hit when it comes out.

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In a university town in the American Midwest, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are. Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, each of them faced with decisions that will complicate and compromise their visions of themselves.

As they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment. The friends ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? and what does true connection look like in an age of precarity.

My Thoughts:

I loved reading about these friends and to see what the outcome of their lives would be. They all go through relatable and personal issues but they all come out the other side with each other by their sides. It will bring warmth and love to your heart after reading it. It is a raw and sympathetic story about friends, lovers and life and I really enjoyed reading it. I could see this being made into a film, that would be perfect.

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When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B – a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties – she meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn’t have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share.

Mrs B is no fool and knows there is more to Janice than meets the eye. What is she hiding? After all, doesn’t everyone have a story to tell?

My Thoughts:

I really enjoyed this book about Janice, she is a cleaner and hears many people’s stories. She never tells anyone these stories she keeps them to herself as she is the keeper of stories. When she meets Mrs B, things are different Mrs B is near the end of her life and is quite sharp. But maybe Mrs B can find things out about Janice that no one knows. It was a clever and interesting story that captivated me, I was not sure if it would be for me but it really was and I loved it. Such a warm and funny read in parts.

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Laila and her husband arrive for a week’s holiday in Greece in desperate need of a reset.

As Laila sits by the pool she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the other family staying in their resort.

Em has no idea who Laila is, or that she has been watching her and her teenage sons and husband so intently.

Five days later Em’s world will be blown apart by a horrifying event.

Laila thinks she knows the truth of what happened. But in telling Em what she’s seen, she stands to lose everything she holds dear.

And what if she’s got it wrong?

My Thoughts:

What an intriguing story about a wife and husband who go away on holiday to get away from every day life and talk about their future. I think Laila’s back story will be relatable to some women and I did feel sorry for her. But whilst on holiday she meets Em and she becomes obsessed with her life but when something awful happens will Laila own up to what she knows. The story keeps the reader feeling tense with the twists that happen throughout the story. It felt quite a long story and would be a great beach read.

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This is the story of Gayle and Martin, who fall in love over the course of ten years- over a yearly visit to a tiny, isolated island off the Welsh coast.

Gayle is a teacher and each year she brings her class to the island to see the local flora and fauna, from sea birds to playful seals. Martin, the island’s caretaker and only human resident, lives in and maintains the lighthouse, which opens to the public for just this one day a year.

Gayle is effervescent but feels trapped, while Martin is lonely and isolated. As their love slowly builds over time, they both yearn for the annual field trip where they can finally see each other… Until one year Gayle doesn’t come back, and Martin has to leave his island hideaway to find her.

My Thoughts:

What a beautiful story, you are bound to fall in love with not just the story but with all the lovely characters too. The setting sounds idyllic and perfect. It is a tender love story about two lonely souls that are brought together by chance and it showed me if you want something that much, grab the bull by its horns and go for it. If you don’t you will regret it. I loved the pace of this read and read it throughout a day, you will go through all the emotions, I laughed, I cried and I felt all warm and fuzzy. It is a beautiful story and I loved it.

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THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. YOU’D DIE TO BE THERE.

Ten lucky people have won a place at the most exclusive launch event of the century: the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon. It’s an invitation to die for. As their transport departs for its return to Earth and the doors seal shut behind them, the guests take the next leap for mankind.

However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems. The champagne may be flowing, but there is no one to pour it. Room service is available, but there is no one to deliver it. Besides the ten of them, they are completely alone.

When one of the guests is found murdered, fear spreads through the group. But that death is only the beginning. Being three days’ journey from home and with no way to contact the outside, can any of the guests survive their stay?

My Thoughts:

The book is set in the Hotel which is the first hotel on the moon, ten people have been picked to go there and they cannot wait. But it is not all as it seems and things start to go wrong very quickly. Some one is found murdered but who was it and why? and will the remaining guests all get out alive? it is such a quirky and unique story line of a locked room mystery. However it was not right for me, I don’t enjoy locked room mysteries, and non fiction sci-fi books. It just didn’t grab my attention.

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When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change.

Or maybe not.

Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion. And he wants to be the one to test this theory.

Will Bridgette find it in herself to warm her heart to Warren and finally learn to love?

Maybe.

Maybe not.

My Thoughts:

This book is in the Maybe Series and follows on from Maybe Someday. This is Warren’s story and it is a nice short quick read. I read it in a couple of hours. Warren gets the opportunity to have a female room mate he jumps at the chance but he doesn’t expect someone like Bridgette to be that person. He fancies her but she is cold and doesn’t seem interested in him until he tests her. It was quite a sweet and romantic story line. When Bridgette opens up to Warren he sees her for her and helps her show what real love is like. It is a tender and beautiful romance and a great story to curl up with.

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There’s no place like home. There’s no place like Cornwall…

Maisie Winters has everything she could ever want. She lives in the idyllic Cornish town of Port Karadow, has a jammy job in her dad’s shop, adores her rescue mutt, and has time to take the landscape photos she loves.

While her best friend and sister left the town to chase big dreams in London and New York, Maisie stayed – she wouldn’t leave her favourite place for anything … or anyone.

When her long-time crush, Colm Caffrey, returns from a decade abroad, old feelings start to resurface. Maisie begins to ask herself if there might be one big thing missing after all?

My Thoughts:

I needed a book to take my mind of everyday things and this was the perfect remedy, I felt as though I could lose myself between the pages, it was just so good to wind down with this story. Maisie lives in the beautiful and very scenic Port Karadow in Cornwall and has a ideal life for herself, but when her crush from years ago turns up he decidedly shakes things up for Maisie and she doesn’t know if she is coming or going with him. Can they rekindle what they had before? This is book 8 in the Cornish Cream Tea Series and if you haven’t read any of those books, I would definitely recommend reading them as they are just as good as this one. As a follow on we catch up with old friends and also new ones, it was nice to see what other people were up to from the previous books. It is a perfect pick me up read that was making me dream about booking a weekend away to Cornwall, I love Cressida’s descriptions of Cornwall I felt as though I could taste the sea air on my lips reading this story. This book is just what I needed and I absolutely loved it.

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