When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi’s disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its … More Review: Tall Bones by Anna Bailey
London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline ‘Caro’ Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a … More Review: Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Spring has bloomed! Well, at least the calendar says so, the weather in the UK doesn’t appear to be catching on just yet. It’s still really cold, wet and grey. No blooms in the garden yet, but daffodils are in no short supply in the supermarkets. I also got my first dose of the Covid … More March Bookish Wrap Up
A deliciously gothic story of wishes and curses – a new dark fairy tale set against a Victorian backdrop full of lace and smoke. Once upon a time Ella had wished for more than her life as a lowly maid. Now forced to work hard under the unforgiving, lecherous gaze of the man she once … More Review: The Shadow in the Glass
Two women, bound by a child, a nd a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be … More Review: The Foundling by Stacey Halls
