Flawless –Tilly Bagshawe

The diamond business isn’t just about elegant women and their rich husbands... at least not for Scarlett.  As stunningly beautiful as the jewellery she designs, Scarlett is determined to succeed.

But before long Scarlett realises that beneath the glittering surface is a world of shady dealers and insatiably materialistic women, who will do whatever it takes in pursuit of the perfect stone. Even if it means sacrificing everything they have.  So will Scarlett get sucked into this world of greed and lust or will she emerge with her heart and her business intact?

My Rating 4/5  (Fiction)

When I started to read the first few pages I thought this is not my type of book.  I carried on and I must say that I was surprised that I really got into It .

Gypsy Boy - Mikey Walsh

Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. 

This is something Mikey knows only too well.

Growing up, he didn’t go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his world. But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture,  his family's legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of grief and abuse.

Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision -- to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to belong.

My Rating 5/5 Heartbreaking (Non-Fiction)

Heartbreaking. It was not at all what I expected, I thought it would be a funny and heart warming story about gypsies. How brave of Mikey to tell his story with so much emotional, physical, and sexual abuse that has gone on his life.
I could not put it down until I had finished it.

Marshmallows For Breakfast – Dorothy Koomson

When Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, a separated father of two, and begins a new job. Kyle’s six year- year-old twins, Summer and Jaxon, quickly adopt Kendra as their new mother, even though she’s hiding a painful secret that makes her keep everyone – especially children – at arm’s length.

Then Kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and everything falls apart: she can't sleep, she can't eat, she's suspended from work and the kids are taken away by their mother. The only way to fix things is to confess to the terrible mistake she made all those years ago. But that's something she swore never to do ...

My Rating 5/5 Loved This Book (General Fiction)               

This is the first book I have read by Dorothy Koomson. I loved the special Saturday breakfast with the children. A real page turner and I could not put it down.

Taken – Sharon Hamilton

‘God only knows what fate befell Vicky after, cold and alone at the bus stop, she accepted a lift home.’

Abducted from a local bus stop, schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton vanished into thin air.  Her disappearance left the country in shock and a family torn apart.  Sharon, her sister and best friend, never stopped looking for her.  Then, seventeen years later, the search came to a tragic end.

Taken is Sharon Hamilton’s heartbreaking true story of what happens to a family when one of its most loved members disappears without a trace.  It’s about never giving up hope that one day they will come home, and that justice will be done.

My Rating 5/5 Heartbreaking  (Non-Fiction)

The Kinsella Sisters – Kate Thompson

Home is where the heart is...

Free spirit Rio Kinsella finds herself settled in the picture-postcard village of Lissamore on Ireland's West Coast. It's where she took her first step, had her first kiss and conceived her beloved son Finn. But now Finn's spread his wings and flown the nest, what's to keep her here? An old flame and a new prospect may provide the answer...

City girl Dervla is poles apart from her bohemian sister. A businesswoman with a quick mind, a hard heart and a nose for a good deal, she has no time for love. But is there anywhere she can really call home? And will the arrival of a new client throw her glossy magazine life-style into disarray? 

Torn apart by a long-standing feud, the Kinsella sisters are reunited upon the death of their wayward father. But on clearing the family home, they discover a secret so intriguing it could change their lives forever...

Welcome to blissfully unpredictable Lissamore. It's guaranteed you'll never want to leave!

My Rating 5/5 Loved This Book  (Fiction)

I loved this book it’s a real page turner. A summer read that I could not put it down.

About The Author

Kate Thompson is an award – winning former actress.  She is happily married with one daughter, and divides her time between Dublin and the West of Ireland, where she swims off some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.