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Last night I started reading A Beautiful Day by Kate Anthony.....

Today is the day that things are going to change for Rachel Bidewell.


She will walk through the doors of Clifton Avenue Care Home and start a new life.


Rachel is returning to work. And as she discovers, juggling a new job, three children and an ex husband can feel like drowning.


Someone needs to throw her a lifeline...


Philip doesn't seem like an obvious lifesaver. He has just lost the one person who ever cared for him and, even as an adult, he doesn't know how to live in the real world.


But might Philip and Rachel each have something the other needs?


This is a story of unexpected friendship; of the messy, muddy territory of those broken by life - and what it takes to fix them. It reminds us that the very darkest of days can be funny, heart-warming and even beautiful.

Glad you enjoyed it, Ann :-)

Yes the villa was a good read. :-)

Persie I'm a tree hugger, Dermot is welcome to the bins :-D <3

Hi Persie long time no see..... :-D <3 always great to see you posting :-D <3

I like Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa is one that came up in GlossieAnn's Greaders group..

Hello Emma, yes it is a long time no speak, have you hugged your rubbish bin, Dermot recommends it?

Persie

Pammy I downloaded The Villa too, havent read it but will do now you have mentioned it :-)

SVera I thoroughly enjoyed the book I was even going to suggest it for the GReaders thread...well worth a read.....

Hi Belladonna not sure if we have spoken before but Welcome and its great to see you posting.......I will take a look at the one you have mentioned......

Happy Reading Bookworms & Kindle Tarts :-D <3

The Drowning ~Camilla Lackberg, an excellent series of Scandi crime novels :-)

Have finished Nicholas &Alexandra at last and enjoyed it very much. Tragic ending of course with the murder of Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children, and the deaths of a number of other people connected with them. As well as enjoying it as a good read I feel I understand the history of Russia a little bit better now. Book seems to be well researched and the same author has written books on Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, which might be worth a read.

Just finished reading The Villa In Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson.

Four people are invited to stay in a villa in Italy through the will of Beatrice Malaspina. None of them knew her and appear to have no connection to each other.

I really enjoyed this book and best of all it was free on Kindle :-)

'Simply English' by Simon Heffer.

The Author said: "I am far from sure that every act of violence done to the English language is recorded here but the most frequent & the most likely are, as are the means of avoiding them".

An amusing & useful read.

Persie long time no see or speak <3

Hope you and yours are keeping well :-D

Emma :-)

I read a lot of thrillers but in between I chuck in a Rosie Thomas or a light hearted who dunnit by M C Beaton and also read her historical novels.. can do one of them in an evening.

Plus I have other favourites and am not doing Greaders while I catch up with a lot of my books and have been doing quite well and then a new Rosie Thomas appeared on the scene so am well over half way through "The Illusionists" and really enjoying it. She certainly puts a lot of research into her work. Once again she has turned out a book that is completely unlike anything she has written before.

The nearest I have read to this would be the one about fireworks: The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale where the author's research on pyrotechnology was excellent that was a Greaders group one that I don't think I voted for but was very pleased to read. :-)

Choccy you is a love thanks sweetypie <3 <3 <3 :-D

Thanks Choccy, just downloaded to my kindle :-)

Thanks Choccy. That looks interesting. I've been trying to get in to Amazon to download it but all I get is "This page cannot be displayed". I'll try again later.

I'm still on Nicholas and Alexandra which seems to be taking me forever to read but I am enjoying it and learning a bit about late 19th/early 20th century Russia. All I knew about Rasputin was that he was influential in the politics of the time and was a hypnotic and rather nasty character. It seems his influence over Alexandra and, through her, over Tsar Nicholas was enormous. He is a totally repellent character but fascinating at the same time. I certainly feel I'm learning something from this book.

Thanks Choccy just ordered it.

Free today - could be interesting

In Search of Martha Brown

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K7A2IVW/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk

Though born in obscurity and dying publicly on the scaffold for the brutal murder of her husband in 1856, Martha Brown as a historical character remained elusive. She has long been an object of fascination to many people, not the least being the young Thomas Hardy who witnessed her execution. This book reveals for the first time all that has been discovered up to now about Martha Brown. It also contains a full report of her trial; a discussion of the relationship between Hardy and Martha Brown; a description of turning the research into a novel; a biographical note on Lady Pinney, and an intriguing chapter on Martha's mind by psychiatrist Dr Derek Steinberg.

Hi Karen my Mum was not too keen on The Four Streets, but I dont want to spoil it for others.....

I have just finished reading

A Pocket Full of Shells - Jean Reinhardt Kindle 77p

In 1846 a baby girl is born to a young Irish fisherman and his wife. It is the second year of The Great Hunger and the young couple choose to remain in Ireland while family and friends are leaving. Their story takes place in the fishing village of Blackrock, near Dundalk, but the cities of Liverpool and Sunderland have a significant influence on their lives. Is their love for each other and their homeland enough to sustain them? Will they be forced to join the one and a half million who emigrate? This is the story of a young man's love for his wife and child as he struggles to provide for a family in one of the darkest periods of Ireland's history.

A lovely read

:-) :-)


Special ~~~~s to all Bookworms and Kindle Tarts <3 <3

Just got The Four Streets for the grand total of 20p, thanks very much :-D

I <3 a bargain :-)
Karen