Village October
I knew I was looking forward to The Fallen Woman by Fiona McIntosh, but it superseded my expectations. I love this novel.
I’ve been a fan of Fiona McIntosh’s since 2013 when I happened upon The Lavender Keeper. I’ve always been a historical fiction reader, but the people! The romance! The locations!! She really has a way of putting you in the story..I think I’ve read at least one Fiona McIntosh a year ever since. I adore them.
Though these novels I’ve been to World Wars, I’ve worked at chocolate shops, sweet shops, train stations, lavender fields, a tea plantation, a champagne vineyard, a diamond mine..they are all so evocative and beautiful.
I’ve found friends and fallen in love countless times through a Fiona McIntosh novel..never tacky or over the top but there is definitely romance in the air, and I am there for it!
The Fallen Woman is my most favourite yet. When we first meet Jane Saville we instantly empathise, her mother and sister are horrible!!!! Guy Attwood, friend of king and Winston Churchill is in the midst of apple hunting and it would be wrong of me not to admit to love at first sight.
We watch Jane battle societal judgment at being a fallen woman, Guy as he comes to term with his own place in society, but along the way we also learn so much about apples, colour and meet the loveliest little boy in Jane’s son Harry. This is such a great saga of a novel.
I am yet to visit Britain, but I very much feel I’ve just some back from the most wonderful trip. This is a novel that reads as a love letter to the beautiful moors, beaches, architecture and rivers of Britain. I could taste the apples, cake and tea!
Jane, Guy and Harry are all head strong, determined characters, and I really feel that made for such an enjoyable reading experience too..never two dimensional, Fiona McIntosh has created real people here. I feel I know them all
The Fallen Woman is out now, in all good bookshops and I have no hesitation in recommending it! I hope you love it!!
What I am excited for in November
Pictures of You Emma Grey
Leave the Girls Behind Jacqueline Bublitz
All the Beautiful Things Katrina Nannestad
Legend of Albert Jacka Peter Fitzsimmons
