#AudioBookReview – The Foundling by Stacey Halls #TheFoundling #ThePigeonhole

From Goodreads: "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 - the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed - by...

#AudioBookReview – The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes #TheGiverofStars #LoveAudio #AudiobookChallenge #LibraryLoveChallenge #2019histfict

From Goodreads: "Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly...

#BookReview – A Dangerous Engagement by Ashley Weaver #AmoryAmes #ADangerousEngagement #ARC #NetGalley

From Goodreads: "Amory Ames is travelling to New York, excited to be a bridesmaid at her childhood friend Tabitha’s wedding, but with Prohibition in full swing, her husband Milo is less than enthused. When a member of the wedding party is found murdered on the front steps of the bride’s home, the happy plans take...

#BookReview – What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon #WhatTheWindKnows

From Goodreads: "In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything… Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a...

#BookReview – The Wrong Envelope by Liz Treacher #BookBlitz @liztreacher @LoveBooksGroup #LoveBooksTours

I'm thrilled to be taking part in the blog blitz for The Wrong Envelope by Liz Treacher. Thanks so much to Kelly of Love Book Tours for the invitation and to the author for my lovely paperback copy. Before I share my review here's what the book is all about: Summer 1920. Two worlds are...

#BookReview – The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith #TheJazzFiles #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "Introducing Poppy Denby, a young journalist in London during the Roaring Twenties, investigating crime in the highest social circles! In 1920, twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a...

#2018HistFicReadingChallenge – Final Update

At the end of 2017 I posted that I was going to join in with the 2018 Historical Reading Challenge as hosted by Passages to the Past. I decided I’d aim for 15 books this year in the hope that I’d read more than that. I posted an update in March and I'd already read/listened...

#AudiobookReview – The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick #ThePhantomTree

Goodreads blurb: "Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait - identified as the doomed Tudor queen Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a...

#AudiobookReview – The Tea Planter’s Daughter by Janet Macleod Trotter #TheTeaPlantersDaughter #IndiaTeaSeries # BrillianceAudio #LoveAudio

Goodreads blurb: "1905 INDIA: Clarissa Belhaven and her younger sister Olive find their carefree life on their father's tea plantation threatened by his drinking and debts. Wesley Robson, a brash young rival businessman, offers to help save the plantation in exchange for beautiful Clarrie's hand in marriage, but her father flatly refuses. And when Jock...