[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A feel-good contemporary romance in a gorgeous exotic location, - pristine and sunny San Sebastián, Spain. Perfect for one of those days when nothing will fill that need for dreamy travel, romance and new adventures but a “swathe of golden sand, a jumble of white buildings with…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This twisty, puzzling, intense read is so rich with detail, characters, red-herrings, nuance and mystery that, if you are anything like this reader, you will quickly find yourself, moody and muttering, questioning every “fact” presented by every narrative witness, - willing yourself to settle down, put the…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 + An absolutely beautiful read, this book resonated so powerfully with me that it was difficult to see it end. Deeply evocative, the author captures perfectly the heady rush that comes with being eighteen, on the cusp of adulthood - a time so jumbled up with innocence,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟1/2 A contemporary romance set in the beautiful sun, sand, and surf of Queensland’s Bellbird Bay. Ailsa McNeil, 52 years old, has just learned that her twenty-five year marriage to her husband Bob, (suddenly and somewhat mysteriously behaving like a “surly loner”, distancing himself in all forms of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟 Benji is a black Labrador, and interestingly, also a narrator of this book, which features a dog’s-eye view of the complications that can arise in seemingly perfect human lives. Meriel, the main (human) protagonist, and the story’s second-provided POV, believes herself to be happily married. Until the…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gentle look at love, as it ages, batted about and corrupted by the passage of time, as long-held fears, insecurities and secrets, do their dirty work in darkness - leaving us to wonder, is it ever too late to start again? Prickly and somewhat unlikable, Meena…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This adorable picture-book touched me. With its simple rhyming prose, gentle watercolor images, and lovely message, reading this book (with a child, or as an adult with the child-in-you listening ) is like wading into a serene and calming lake - losing yourself to something eternal, something…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A feast for lovers of contemporary crime fiction, this stellar collection of 25 stories, all written by members of CWA and embracing a theme of music, is both a must read and a rare and captivating treat. With stories reaching broadly across the crime genre, including procedural…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟+ For this reader, a long-time fan of both Rachel and all the Marion Keyes books, visiting with Rachel again, (along with the entire Walsh family), is a visit with old and treasured friends, - so much so that re-opening the door, to step back into their world,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A pitch-perfect thriller, this book is dark and devious and thoroughly engaging - with enough twists and turns to keep even the best psychological sleuth guessing. Helen, Serena, Rory and Daniel. College friends at Cambridge, (Rory Haverstock is Helen’s brother) and as the couples pair up and…