#20booksofsummer Book 9 #AudiobookReview – The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend #TheGrowingPainsofAdrianMole #LoveAudio #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "Sunday July 18th My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both …

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#20booksofsummer Book 3 #AudioBookReview – Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver #MurderAtTheBrightwell #LibraryLoveChallenge #LoveAudio

From Goodreads: "Amory Ames might be wealthy but she is unhappily married to playboy Milo, so willingly accepts her former fiance Gil Trent's plea for help in preventing his sister Emmeline from meeting a similar fate. Amory and Gil set off for the Brightwell, a sprawling seaside hotel in Devon, where Emmeline and her intended, …

#20booksofsummer Book 2 #BookReview – Blackberry & Wild Rose by Sonia Velton #Blackberry&WildRose #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "When Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’ is too good to refuse. Inside the Thorels’ tall house …

#AudiobookReview – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens narrated by Martin Jarvis #GreatExpectations #LoveAudio

From Goodreads: "In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge …

#AudiobookReview – A Clerical Error by J. New #AClericalError #TantorMedia

From Goodreads: "When the crime scene is pure coincidence and there’s no evidence, how do you prove it was murder? Ella Bridges faces her most challenging investigation so far when the vicar dies suddenly at the May Day Fete. But with evidence scarce and her personal life unravelling in ways she could never have imagined, …

#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 …

#AudiobookReview – Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery performed by Rachel McAdams #LoveAudio #AnneOfGreenGables #Audible #2019HistFicReadingChallenge

Goodreads blurb: "When ageing brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative red-headed girl who is mistakenly brought to them instead. Nor are they prepared for the way in …