Beautiful

I was asked to review this book by Inspired Kathy.

Delightful book with real characters. Such a beautiful story that the reader will not be able to put down.

Girl returning to her hometown, college years behind her expectation she will marry her high school boyfriend- in the voice of Shrek Happy ever after. Will this happen read on. She is then working on the family farm with her brother. Her life sound predictable and there are assumptions.

The story has some twists and along comes an old college student and not best pleased to see.

I just had to keep reading on till the end.

Recommended author who tells a good story and writes well.

On a par with Sliding Doors

I was asked to review by Librarything.com

A book on similar lines to the film Sliding Doors. - one woman two choices so which do you make?
the two stories were so good and at times overlapped. Really clever.

Love, regrets, choices, the search to be happy and a bit of fun thrown into the mix.

Readers will not be able to put this book down and want to find out what happens at the end.

A good sunbed read.

A cute book in the great Tovi series for children

I was asked by the author to review this - I have been lucky to read other books in the Tovi series. Just apt for this time of year. Kids will love this cute story and adore the illustrations.

Children do not play outside enough these days so on a snowy day kids will relate to Tovi and his friends.

Watch out for the other animals.

Great gift for a child, put away for 2018 Christmas.

A beutiful story of being old and young

I was asked to review this by Lovereading.com

I had not come across this author but so glad I was asked to review.

A remarkable story- thought provoking and emotional too - It’s about getting old, being young and what we do with our lives.

Florence is lying on the floor in her sheltered accommodation she muses over her life- a new resident has arrived is this someone she thought had died over 60 years ago. Her friend Elsie then helps her to remember the past and a secret Florence has kept to herself.

The author writes beautifully and the reader will be drawn to the characters who are real and interesting.

I often wonder when I am older what I will muse over - I have to admit to a few tears a long the way.

Beautiful and I could not put this down totally devoured to the end.

Good for kids and good message

I was asked to review this by Librarything.com

This is a cute book and the author writes about birds that cannot fly- this is about being different and this is a great message for children and adults. We do not all conform to what is expected or the "norm" we need to be accepted for what we are.

This book highlights how the birds help each other- this is a simple message which children will understand it does not need anything other than this message. The illustrations are good.

Don't give up.

Recommended for 6 year olds and upward.

A nostalgic read

I was asked to review this book by Nudge Reviewers.

I was glad to receive this in the Christmas holidays. I trained as a nurse in the 1980s and watch tv programmes set in the 50s such as Call the Midwife but always interested in other types of nurses and Aileen works in a paeds (children) at this time. Nurses at this time were looked upon as angels and staff respected each other- perhaps more so then.

The author now an MP also trained as nurse so is pulling on her knowledge and training. 

The story is set in Liverpool in the 50s and the reader gets a sense of the dockyards, community life emerging from the war. Although this is book four in the Lovely Lane series readers can read this as a stand alone book , but why not read the others in the series too. The book as expected is emotional, we forget the hardships people went through and the dawn of the National Health Service. This was a calling and people devoted their lives to the sick. Sister Tapps is a good example overworked but the hospital is her family.

Will the neglected baby boy survive? - death was common in children still in the 50s and the author tackles these issues in a humane way.

A great old fashioned festive read - recommended.

Happy Christmas and look forward to 2018

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

My pledge for 2018 is to read more books and write more reviews

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Jane Brown