I loved this novel! I’m just about to go over to ReadA Chat and start a chat on it! Perfect for the Hay Rollers (although definitely a closed door romance x) I just loved it so much. So much small town community and gorgeous scenery to vicariously enjoy! I love Stella Quinn novels! So comforting
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This is so not my usual novel. It’s Hansel and Gretel what really happened/ 20 years later/ its full of foxes and bears and witches and magic.. I loved it! Cant wait to til October when it’s published (by Harper Collins) and I can talk about it! Will you read it? So different, but has
There’s SO much going on in this novel. I finished school in 95 so all the 90s nostalgia was fun and I could completely relate to the bewilderment of there being just as much time has passed ‘from 2018 to 1995 as 1995 to 1972’..and I’ve definitely done that reevaluating what should and shouldn’t have
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When I lost my shop last year I turned to my favourite fiction characters for lessons in resilience. I’m not surprised at all that Belinda Alexandra would turn to her own fiction. Her novels are full of heroines rising from the ashes. I loved and so appreciated being along for the emboldenment. What a gorgeous
Exactly what I wanted!! Such a steamy rom com but with the best message; lean into audacity, be true to you, ask for what you want and ‘raise that bar..and do not compromise about where it sits ever again’. My goodness it also gives you SO much to think about…relearning and systematic racism, the patriarchy,
An accidental reread because my friend Adrian said how much she loved The Rat Catcher so I opened it at the. It’s page and settled on in for the afternoon! I love Patrick and Rosie x being in Sydney in the summer of 1900 as it sweltered and battles a rat infestation was so enjoyable
You know you are in safe hands and kind of should have some tissues ready when you start a new Kelly Rimmer. And The Paris Agent might be my most favourite yet. No spoilers here at all, but oh my goodness, what a web of secrets and bravery, confusion and courage. I feel I’ve been
Gosh, I cannot be the only one thinking May!!! The month of cooler nights, lap blankets and mothers. I hope it is also a month full of good books and great stories. Happy New Month to you and I hope you enjoy the 14th whether you celebrate Mother’s Day or not. I thought in honour
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I’d had The Artist’s Secret on my bedside table for months, I knew I would love it and was happy to just know it was there waiting..and it was just as fun as I knew it would be! What a saga! And what a heroine we have in Wren Summers! Beautiful, smart, driven, capable and
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It is with very immense pleasure that I open my laptop to write ReadA Chat is working!!!!!! It feels like a long, slow arduous journey to get here, but yay!!!!!! I am so so so happy with ReadA Chat and I so hope you will be too! I have wanted this feature in the community
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