It was really a pleasure to read this third book of the Wild Isle series. This time, the central character is Flora. We return to St Kilda and to a number of the events that marked the lives of Flora and her friends (Books 1 and 2), but we now see the situation from her... Continue Reading →
I love family sagas and this is what attracted me to this book, my first encounter with this author. I decided to read the previous two (Master of His fate and In the Lion’s Den) and follow with this one. I enjoyed the overall story of the Falconers, a real rags to riches story. It... Continue Reading →
Libby and boyfriend Max drop by a Christmas party at a friend’s mansion with a group of Libby’s old university friends. But they are snowed in and stuck together at Christmas. The story goes back and forth between their university years and the present. What happened in the past has left wounds and questions. This... Continue Reading →
Helen lives in Scotland. Her mother is Greek and her father Scottish. Although her mother is estranged from her parents, she sends Helen to visit her grandparents for the first time in 1968. Helen discovers Greece mostly through enjoyable days, but she soon realises that there is an undercurrent of something she is uncomfortable with.... Continue Reading →
The story starts during the political coup in Iran in 1953. Roya is an idealistic teenager who spends a lot of time at the stationery shop of Mr Fakhri, a magical place full of books, pens bottles of ink and little trinkets. There, Roya meets Bahman and falls for this young man involved in politics,... Continue Reading →
Night Train to Marrakech is the third and last part of the Daughters of War trilogy. Vicky, the daughter of Elise and Victor travels to Morocco in the hope to meet her grandmother Clemence and learn more about her past. She studied to be a fashion designer and she hopes to meet Yves Saint Laurent,... Continue Reading →
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