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  • Wish You Were Here

    By Karly Lane
    3 stars

    The story's main characters are Reggie (female) MacLeod and Tim Warbois. The setting is the MacLeod cattle farm in New England, Australia. Tim is a broken man after 3 of his army friends had committed suicide after serving in Vietnam. He needs to get away from everything and comes across the MacLeod's Farm Stay, where he learns to fly fish, gets a job on the farm, meets Reggie, falls in love with her and the rest his history! Apart from the bad guys and the theft a prize bull and some cattle... It was an easy holiday read but too much of 'holding back the tears' and 'biting the lower lip' for me.

  • The Golden Doves

    By Martha Hall Kelly
    4 stars

    I love historical fiction and this novel didn't disappoint. It's the story of Arlette and Josie who worked for the French Resistance in Paris. The story is set in both 1943 and after the war in 1952, When they are arrested they are taken to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and suffer the atrocities that happened there. Arlette's son Willie was taken from her and after the war she vowed to find him. She ends up in French Guiana but stumbles across Nazis who are doing medical tests on children there. It's an exciting but disturbing book. 'Always remember'...

  • Jinnie

    By Josephine Cox
    3 stars

    Susan deserts her newborn child Jinnie so her sister Louise adopts Jinnie as her own. Adam and his sister Hannah witnessed their mother's murder and are traumatised. They are being looked after by their devoted grandmother. This story follows their lives and what happens when Susan returns to take Jinnie back. An easy read with likeable characters.

  • The One Plus One

    By Jojo Moyes
    4 stars

    Jojo Moyes is a favourite author of mine and this book didn't let me down. The main character, Jess has a daughter, Tanzie who is gifted at maths. Her teenage stepson is a bit different and gets bullied. The family need to get Tanzie to a maths competition in Scotland so she can get a scholarship to a private school. They end up meeting a man called Ed Nicholls (who has his own problems!) and he offers to drive them to Scotland. The adventures they have on the long journey make you laugh and cry. I didn't want the story to end...

  • The Miller's Daughter

    By Margaret Dickinson
    4 stars

    I love historical fiction and this novel was an excellent read. Set in Lincolnshire in 1918 it follows the life of Emma Forest whose father owns a flour mill. Her life was no fun - she had to work very hard in her father's mill and then the man she wanted to marry came back from the war a different person. She ended up in a loveless marriage to a man who only wanted the mill. Even though this book was published in 1997 I think I have found another author to follow!

  • Dawn

    By V.C. Andrews
    3 stars

    I'm not sure what aged reader this book is intended for? This edition was published in 1990 so obviously quite an old novel! I think I read Flowers in the Attic many years ago... Dawn (and her supposedly brother Jimmy) are moved from place to place by their parents. Their father gets a job at a posh school so the kids are allowed to go there too. Dawn meets the handsome Philip Cutler and falls in love with him. It turns out that he is actually her real brother and the mean Clara Sue is her sister. Dawns parents had actually kidnapped her from the rich family when she was a baby. Dawn is the start of a new series by V.C. Andrews - I'm not sure I'll bother reading anymore...

  • Blue Diary

    By Alice Hoffman
    3 stars

    Ethan, now a pillar of the community, has been exposed about a rape and murder he committed 13 years ago. His wife and son are obviously devastated and struggle to believe that their husband and father could be capable of such a heinous crime.

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