Month: March 2021
+ fiction, radio play, review
Picturing the Past by Cat on a Piano Productions / Theatrephonic
Congratulations! It’s the 20th episode!! Picturing the PastA brush with the past What a beautiful, poetic, yet ultimately sad story of commercial success but unfulfilled, suppressed creativity. It takes place in two timescales – nowadays when Amy and Ruth attend an exhibition of paintings by landscape artist Hugo Westfield who died in 1947, aged just 59. The history of the artist is described in … Read More Picturing the Past by Cat on a Piano Productions / Theatrephonic
+ community, family, fiction, friendship, holiday, literature, love, review, romance, seventies
Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan
Madame Burova – Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years. Imelda Burova has spent a lifetime keeping other people’s secrets and her silence has come at a price. She has seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Her cards had unmasked them all and … Read More Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan
+ community, Dogs, family, female friendship, fiction, friends, friendship, literature, love, relationships, review
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
Prickly. Stubborn. Terribly lonely.But everyone deserves a second chance… Missy Carmichael’s life has become small. Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she’s haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty home; the sound of the radio in the dark; the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. #SavingMissy #MeetMissy @BethMorrey @fictionpubteam @HarperCollinsUK #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours Spiky and defensive, Missy knows that … Read More Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
Old Bones by Helen Kitson
Diana and her sister Antonia are house-sharing spinsters who have never got over their respective first loves. Diana owns a gift shop, but rarely works there. Antonia is unemployed, having lost her teaching job at an all girls’ school following a shocking outburst in the classroom after enduring years of torment. Diana is a regular at the local library, Antonia enjoys her “nice” magazines, … Read More Old Bones by Helen Kitson
The Castaways by Lucy Clarke
A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME.WISH YOU WERE HERE?THINK AGAIN… It should be like any other holiday. Beautiful beaches.Golden sunsets.Nothing for miles. You’ll never want to leave.Until you can’t… My Review What an exciting book, so full of tension. I just wanted keep on reading till I found out what happened. Erin and Lori are sisters. They have always been close, even … Read More The Castaways by Lucy Clarke
+ abuse, child abuse, childhood, family, family drama, female friendship, fiction, friends, friendship, loss, motherhood, rape, relationships, review, sisters
The Fractured Globe by Angela Fish
Nature? Nurture? Or just plain luck? Single mums, Tia and Kay, meet when their sons are born on the same day. Tia is a product of the welfare system but wants a better life for her son. Her entrapment by her manipulative and controlling boyfriend in the world of drink, drugs, crime and enforced prostitution suggests otherwise. Is she a ‘born devil’ or can … Read More The Fractured Globe by Angela Fish
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