Christmas at hope cottage

The german girl

The paris secret

He was perfect. Denim-blue eyes, a dazzling smile. And he hadnt sent me a picture of his junk. Which is about as rare, these days, as a Dodo. When Sloane met Myles, everything fell into place. He loved a Martini almost as much as she did, shared her passion for four-cheese pizzas, and made her laugh harder than any episode of Friends. Shed found The One at last and she could finally delete Tinder,...

You think you can trust the ones you love most. But what if one secret could make you question everything?Every day, a woman like Louise passes you in the street: elegant, confident, determined. But underneath, shes struggling.She doesnt know her sister, Alice, has been scared of leaving the house since their mother died.She doesnt know when Alice babysits her little boy, Archie, he sometimes sees...

There, on the dusty floorboards, was a piece of paper, folded neatly. A newspaper article, written in German, alongside a faded picture of two men in Nazi uniforms staring at the camera. I was about to place it back in the box of forgotten things when something in the text jumped out at me. My breath caught in my chest. I know that name.London, present day. Isla has grown up hearing her beloved gr...

WOW, what a story Utterly hooked from page one, so glad it was a weekend and I could binge read!. An absolute must-read!! 5 huge stars from me. Goodreads Reviewer, 5 starsEveryone makes mistakes. But does everyone deserve to be forgiven?She runs past the tinkling of childrens laughter that fills the park. Heart hammering, feet stinging, she reaches the riverbank, her breath catching in her throat....

A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughters hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officers hand was at Lieses throat before she saw him move. I can kill you easily, then I can kill your daughter. He relaxed his grip a little. Or perhaps I could kill her first?England, forty years later. When Karen Cartwright is...

My whole body aches. I trawl memories of her, now so precious. my darling child. I cant lose herWhen Tessa arrives at the little house by the lake with her two children, it is an escape. The rental house may be a bit small but its theirs for the summer. A place to hideHowever, their isolation is disrupted by the family from the big house next door. Three children and their glamorous mother Rebecc...

An absolutely HILARIOUS, unputdownable summer read about two best friends who pack their bags for the trip of a lifetime, and promise to start living life to the fullest.Maddy and Leanne are in need of a miracle.Maddy can't bear to wash another pair of her husband's Y-fronts and if he continues to drone on about golf she might just scream. Leanne can't stand living with her overbearing mother for ...

This morning, I was packing up lunches, ironing, putting on the laundry I should have done last night. Now my precious daughter is accused of murder. When ten-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddys mother Juliet cannot believe it. How could her bright, joyful daughter be capable of such a thing? As the small village community recoils in horror, the pressure of...

One morning, Connie McColl wakes up and decides to swap her ordinary life, for an extraordinary adventureConnie McColl is finally free to make her own decisions for the first time in decades. And when she meets glamorous Gill and downtrodden Maggie, at a rather dull flower arranging class, it seems that shes not the only one dreaming of adventure. The three very different women all agree its about...

Amsterdam, 1941. My hands are so shaky Im fumbling. Where to hide? I pull open the dresser, throw aside the blankets, put the baby in and push the drawer shut, just as the nursery door swings open. The German officer marches into the room, yelling over the crying downstairs: You! Grab all the children - now! Based on the heart-wrenching true story of an ordinary young woman who risked everything t...

Most of us want to change something about ourselves. It might be our response to stress, our weight, patterns in our relationships or our performance at work. Change is hard, and its emotional, but its not as impossible as you think.In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist and behavioural coach Dr. Gabija Toleikyte gets straight to the heart of why we form certain habits and behaviours and show...

Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes my mother once told me. As a small child, I looked up at my mother and clutched her hand. The puffiness of her palm reminded me of a loaf of warm pita bread, and when she laced her fingers into mine like a pretzel, I felt safe. I would have walked with her to the ends of the earth.When M...

Join Flora Steele - bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, and amateur detective - as she faces her most puzzling case yet!Sussex, 1957: When Flora Steele andhandsome crime writer Jack Carrington attend the grand re-opening of the Priory Hotel in the beautiful little village of Abbeymead, their day out is cut short when the flame-haired female singer in the band suddenly drops dead before their eyes.Flora...

When she was just twelve years old, Mackenzie Price came home to find her father bleeding to death on the kitchen floor. She will never forget that night, nor what her mother asked her to doTwenty years later, Detective Mack Price is back in Lakemore, despite vowing never to return. Determined to atone for the sins of the past, she is unstoppable in her quest for justice.When eighteen-year-old Abi...