Author: Bernadine Evaristo Rating: 3.5/5 Finished: 11 July 2021 Synopsis: It’s a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy’s mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She … More Book Review: Hello Mum
Format: Audiobook finished 6 April 2020 Rating: 5/5 Synopsis: Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she’s kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humour and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. Review: This is hands down the … More Review: Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Format: Hardback finished 3 April 2020 Rating: 5/5 Synopsis: This riotously colourful book takes a photographic journey through Queen Elizabeth IIs ten decades of colour-blocked style. Review: It is no secret that I am a big fan of the Queen so this book was an absolute delight to read. Yes there are not many words … More Review: Our Rainbow Queen by Sali Hughes
Format: Audiobook finished 23 March 2020 Rating: 5/5 Synopsis: Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. The passengers are: a TV star, a pregnant young woman, a disabled war … More Review: The Passengers by John Marrs
Format: Audiobook finished 9 March 2020 Rating: 4/5 Synopsis: What if you almost missed the love of your life? Nadia gets the 7.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma’s after too much wine. Daniel really does get the 7.30 train every morning, which is easy because … More Review: Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams
Format: Hardback (from library) finished 7 March 2020 Rating: 4/5 Synopsis: The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen’s Coronation. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful … More Review: Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner
Format: Audiobook finished 29 February 2020 Rating: 3/5 Synopsis: She sleeps, a pale girl in a white room . . . Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl’s face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: ‘Daddy.’ It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees … More Review: The Other People by C.J. Tudor
Format: Kindle finished 25 February 2020 Rating: 4.5/5 Synopsis: Marriage is complicated, especially for Kate. Her husband Jack has a temper on him, and has been an absent father for years. Kate knows it’s time for a divorce. The trouble is, Jack refuses. And now that he has found out Kate has met another man, … More Review: Clean Break by Tammy Cohen
Format: Kindle finished 23 February 2020 Rating: 4.5/5 Synopsis: When Lizzie’s daughter Meg is given a life-saving heart transplant, Lizzie feels hugely grateful to the nameless donor. Then she receives a letter from the donor’s mother, Karen, asking to meet, and it seems like the least she can do. But as soon as Karen is … More Review: The Donor by Clare Mackintosh
