by Jesse Sutanto

MY RATING 5 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Publication date 29/3/22

SYNOPSIS

The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe–even the mafia–in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties.

Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can’t wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name.Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family aren’t just like her own, they are The Family–actual mafia, and they’re using Meddy’s wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. Her aunties and mother won’t let Meddy’s wedding ceremony become a murder scene–over their dead bodies–and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.

MY REVIEW

Dial A For Aunties was my favourite book of 2021 so I was very excited to get my hands on an advance copy of the second book and find out what Meddy and her hilarious Aunties get up to next.

I was not disappointed! Four Aunties and a Wedding is another rip-roaring laugh out loud comedy from the hugely talented Jesse Sutanto.

You would think one disastrous wedding, complete with a dead body, is enough bad luck for any family.

You would be wrong! In the second book of the totally brilliant Aunties series, Meddy and her aunties find out they have inadvertently employed a mafia family to be the wedding coordinators. And it appears they have plans to murder someone at Meddy and Nathan’s wedding!

And Meddy thought her biggest problem was the neon purple outfits with the fascinators, each topped by a posed Komodo dragon, all her aunties would be wearing!

I would recommend that you read Dial A for Aunties before this second book although it can be read as a stand alone.

Totally hilarious. The larger than life Aunties with their big personalities just jump off the page.

Very very highly recommended.

Thank you HQ for my spot on the tour and my advance Ebook.

by Katie Fforde

SYNOPSIS

1963, a chateau in Provence.

It’s late afternoon when Alexandra arrives, and the chateau before her is old, substantial and its four large towers seem to grow out of the soil. It is, she thinks, reassuring in its permanence and solidity.

Less reassuring are the three silent, rather hostile children waiting for her inside. They are to be her charges for a month: a boy and two girls badly in need of some love, attention, and an English education.

Fresh from London and a recent cookery course, Alexandra has always loved a challenge and feels equipped to deal with most things life throws her.

What she is a good deal less sure about is whether she’ll be able to cope with their father – an impossibly good-looking, entirely unsuitable French count with whom she is trying very hard not to fall in love . . .

MY REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thank you so much Sarah Harwood at Harwood PR for sending me a copy of the book to review.

A big slice of romantic escapism!

Alexandra is on her way from London to finishing school in Switzerland when she stops off in Paris for 24 hours. Whilst sightseeing she meets Donna. Alexandra comes to Donna’s rescue as her bag of shopping splits and she helps her to carry the escaped vegetables! Little does Alexandra know this small Good Samaritan act will change the trajectory of her life.

Having decided, at Donna’s insistence, to spend a little longer than the planned 24 hours in Paris, Donna tells her about a job in Paris an acquaintance is looking to fill. When she goes for the interview she has to lie about her age as it is for a nanny position to three children and she is only 20! The only nannying experience she has had is that of her own nannies who brought her up after her parents died.

The job turns out to be in Provence, in a chateau and somehow Alexandra gets the job and finds herself face to face with three children, 2 of which definitely do not want a nanny! Think Sound of Music. Alexandra manages to settle into life in her temporary position at the château. Then Antoine, the children’s father, returns from a business trip and it is love at first sight for Alexandra. 

Oh and Alexandra is an heiress to a fortune which she will receive when she turns 25. Or when she marries if before then.

A wonderful cast of colourful characters all so brilliantly written. Loved them all, even the evil ones! 

Out now from Century Books.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She’s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and she’s even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; to her there isn’t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories. 

To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at http://www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.

by Sarah Steele

5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

SYNOPSIS

‘My darling girl, I need you to find someone for me . . .’

France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied France from Free France. As the little ones fly across the border and into their mothers’ arms, she breathes a sigh of relief. No one is safe now. Not even the children.

Berkshire, present day. A letter left to her by her beloved late grandmother Gigi takes Hannah Stone on a journey deep into the heart of the Dordogne landscape. As she begins to unravel a forgotten history of wartime bravery and sacrifice, she discovers the heartrending secret that binds her grandmother to a village schoolteacher, the remarkable Lucie Laval . . .

MY REVIEW

A beautiful dual timeline story following Hannah and her search for information on her grandmother’s life, living in a French village during the Second World War.

The present time 

Hannah is looking through a drawer in her father’s bedroom when she finds an old faded letter addressed to her. It is from her beloved late grandmother, Gigi, asking Hannah to find Lucie Laval and ‘tell her I am sorry’. The letter explains where Lucie lived, in the French village of Saint-Michel-sur-Dordogne. Hannah decides she will travel to the village to try to find out what happened to Lucie and what her grandmother was sorry for.

The second timeline is set in 1942, in the village in France. The German demarcation line ran right through the centre of the village meaning half of the village was under German control and the other half French. The children had to cross the line each day to go to school, and they had to have papers with them to allow them to cross each way. We meet Lucie who was the school teacher and find out about her selfless bravery. We also meet other villagers and come to realise many have their secrets and we should not judge people without knowing the reasons they are doing what they are doing.

The story moves back and forth between the timelines as we follow Hannah in her search to fill in the gaps of what she knows. The 1942 story unfolds as Hannah finds out more about her Grandmother. Hannah is also helping the museum put together a more complete picture of the village during the war.

I scooted through this gorgeous book which does tug at the heart strings but is also very uplifting. It is clear the author has undertaken a lot of research. She has written what to me reads as an authentic account of life during the war in a French village, with some villagers joining the Resistance and others trying to save themselves by embracing the German occupation. 

And those cherry bakes had my mouth watering! 

A gorgeous read which is going to stay in my heart for a long time.

Due out 17th March. 

Thank you very much Rosie at Headline for my place on the Blog Tour and for my copy of the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Steele trained as a classical pianist and violinist before joining the world of publishing as an editorial assistant at Hodder and Stoughton. She was for many years a freelance editor, and now lives in the vibrant Gloucestershire town of Stroud. Her debut novel The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon was published by Headline.

SYNOPSIS

Paris, 1750.

In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. 

Madeleine is hiding a dark past, and a dangerous purpose: to discover the truth of the clockmaker’s experiments and record his every move, in exchange for her own chance of freedom.

For as children quietly vanish from the Parisian streets, rumours are swirling that the clockmaker’s intricate mechanical creations, bejewelled birds and silver spiders, are more than they seem.

And soon Madeleine fears that she has stumbled upon an even greater conspiracy. One which might reach to the very heart of Versailles…

A intoxicating story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom.

MY REVIEW

A creepy, gothic, engrossing historical fiction masterpiece! And I’m glad I loved it so much as I preordered the beautiful Waterstones special edition before I read my advance copy.

I was completely immersed in the life of Madeline, the sights, sounds and pretty disgusting smells of Paris during the 18th century and the reign of King Louis XV.

The story is written from the points of view of three ladies from very different backgrounds.

The main narrator is Madeleine, a young prostitute who’s madam is her actual cruel money focussed mother. Madeline is told she must undertake an undercover mission to pretend to be a maid to enable her spy on a talenttted clockmaker and automata maker, Dr Reinhart. Rumours are circulating that he is undertaking unnatural experiments and the police want to know exactly what he is doing. Is he actually doing the unthinkable and taking his knowledge of automatons so far as to try to reanimate the dead?

The second narrator is Veronique, Dr Reinhart’s daughter. Recently returned home from her depressing years being schooled at a convent. Veronique, at her fathers behest, has been studying the human body and organs. She is desperate to become his apprentice.

The third narrator is Jeanne, Madame de Pompadour, the King’s mistress. She feels her useful time is coming to an end as the King tires of her and she is desperate to stay in the court. She needs to find a way to protect her place despite people within the Palace trying to remove her.

Three ladies whose lives, though highly unlikely, become intertwined.

From the gutters of the backstreets of Paris to the Palace and the King himself, this is an extraordinary imagined story based around many true facts, of the fascination of automata at the time and how far the creators go to make their designs as lifelike as possible. 

Thank you to Orion books for my advance copy of the book via NetGalley and my spot on the blog tour. 

translated by Philip Roughton

SYNOPSIS

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.

Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside―as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife―she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be.

Spanning decades and set against a breathtaking historical canvas, Karitas Untitled, an award-winning classic of Icelandic literature, is a complex and immersive portrait of an artist’s conflict with love, family, nature, and a country unaccustomed to an untraditional woman―but most of all, with herself and the creative instincts she has no choice but to follow.

MY REVIEW

I enjoyed this book so much. 

Completely immersive I felt as if I was there in Iceland with Karitas. Vivid descriptions of the land, sea and glaciers. Descriptions of how life was in the remote parts of Iceland. How they cooked, cleaned, what they ate (blood pudding being just one staple!) and they lived a simple but physically demanding life. 

The book is split into three sections, the initial section beginning in 1915 and the final section ending in 1939, and follows the lives of Karitas and her 5 siblings who are living with their mother. Their father died whilst out fishing. Their mother has a difficult life bringing up her 6 children with very little money. Working the land and then knitting clothes to sell to raise money. 

Schooling is difficult to come by but the mother wants her children to have an education so travels north by boat on a very difficult passage, arriving to find she has no accommodation so has to live in the attic of a fish warehouse. The girls find work doing menial jobs such as laundry and cleaning fish which makes painful hands, but they don’t complain. Then the strong willed Karitas manages to find them a small house. 

Then a life changing meeting happens for Karitas when she is summoned to the home of a wealth female artist Madam Eugenía. It is virtually unheard of for a woman to be an artist in those times.

Madam Eugenía has seen some of Karitas work and arranges for her to go to The Royal Academy of fine arts in Copenhagen and has guaranteed her room and board for five years.

I won’t go into the storyline in detail but the rest of the book, parts 2 and 3, follow Karitas in later stages of her life through marriage and having children.

The author also weaves in some Icelandic folklore about elf people. 

This was quite a long read but I didn’t want it to end!

About the Author

Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir is one of Iceland’s most acclaimed writers and the internationally bestselling author of numerous novels, including Karitas Untitled, a Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee; Street of the Mothers; Chaos on Canvas; and Seagull’s Laughter, which was adapted for the stage and also into an award-winning film. She received her degree in 1991 from the University of Iceland and has also worked as a teacher and a journalist. Among Kristín Marja’s many honors are the Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her achievements in writing and her contributions to Icelandic literature, the Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize, and the FjöruverðlaunWomen’s Literature Prize. Kristín Marja lives in Reykjavík.

Philip Roughton is an award-winning translator of many of Iceland’s best-known authors, including Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Þórarinn Eldjárn, Bergsveinn Birgisson, and Steinunn Sigurðardóttir.

SYNOPSIS

At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, a tangled web of lies draws together three vastly different women. Natalie, a young office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke-a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater-and Asha, an overachieving and overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair.

Their fates are bound by their relationships with the handsome, charming assistant athletic director Nicholas, who Natalie loves, Brooke wants and Asha needs. But when two bodies are carried out of the school early one morning, it seems the jealousy between mothers and daughters, rival lovers and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface of this isolated, affluent town-a town where people will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Set in a world of vast ranches, chalet-style apartments and mountain mansions, The Lying Club is a juicy thriller of revenge, murder and a shocking conspiracy-one in which the victims aren’t who you might think.

MY REVIEW

A dark and gripping psychological thriller set in and around an elite private school in Colorado, with rich kids and pushy parents who will do anything for their children.

The beginning of the book grabs your attention straight away. Two people are carried out of the school. Dead? Alive? Police need to investigate whether this was an accident, aggravated assault or a homicide. (It is American!) 

We don’t know the identity of the two people, but we are taken back six months to catch up on the events which led up to this incident. 

Natalie is a person of interest and is currently being interviewed by the police, and as well as going back over events we follow her police interview as the story progresses. The problem is she can’t seem to remember what happened. 

Natalie recently moved to Colorado to help look after her brother. She found a job working in admin in a private school. 

She is, as some of the mothers are, attracted to the very charming Nick who is the PE teacher and who also does private coaching and mentoring to help get students prepared for top universities.

Natalie can’t believe her luck when they begin a relationship, but he is not quite the charming man he appears to be. He becomes very controlling, obsessing over her weight and what she eats. He gives her drugs to feed her addiction until she can’t function without either uppers, downers or painkillers. Then he dumps her.

The other two female main characters, who are school mums, have personal issues in their lives including spoiled daughters who appear to be going off the rails and mixing with a bad bunch. Then disturbing images of one of the girls are circulated around boys at the school. Sloane was persuaded by her boyfriend to take some of herself, but there are others she did not take. 

I can’t go any further into the plot without spoiling it but it is shocking.

After the initial hook, this is a bit of a slow burner which gets under your skin and the pace quickens as the story unfolds. Once I got to know the characters and got further into it I couldn’t put it down. Kept me up well past my bedtime as I had to know how it ended.

Thank you Quercus Books for my proof copy and spot on the blog tour.

About the Author

ANNIE WARD has a BA in English Literature from UCLA and a MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. Her first short screenplay, Strange Habit, starring Adam Scott was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award winner at the Aspen Film Festival. She has received a Fulbright Scholarship and An Escape to Create Artists residency. She lives in Kansas with her family.

by Murray Bailey

SYNOPSIS

Ash Carter and Bill Wolfe are in Israel hunting a group of British Army deserters known as the Killing Crew. Some people think they were a myth, others believe they were the most hated of British soldiers.

In the newly formed state that’s at war with the Arab nations, hated by Jews and despised by Arabs, the two SIB officers think they face an uncomfortable task.

But when they become targets they realise this is more than just a job. It’s life or death.

MY REVIEW

The Ash Carter Singapore series is one of my favourites, and now the author has written two prequels as part of the new Near-East series, this being the second following Cyprus Kiss. I hope there are many more to come as I’m not ready to hear the last from Ash Carter!

The year is 1948. The setting is Israel. The British army have pulled out of the war end evacuated. The British are now despised and seen by many as the enemy. Ash Carter and Bill Wolfe are military police investigators and have been tasked, with the knowledge and agreement of the Israeli government, with finding a team of British deserters who call themselves The Killing Crew. Some are not convinced this crew exists, although a reporter has written articles about them. They need to speak to him.

The search for the Killing Crew is going to be difficult as they have a list of 81 deserters and they don’t know who amongst that list are the crew they are searching for.

Before he gets involved in the search, Carter shows his good guy side by coming to the aid of a mother in distress, and speaking to her he finds she is an illegal Jewish immigrant. A refugee. Carter provides them with basic food which is being rationed. Then he gets rid of the two Slovak debt collector thugs who are preying on her and many others in her situation. A decision which has repercussions.

The search for the Killing Crew leads Carter and Wolfe to a group called Frank’s Band, having had help locating them from a local informant. Are they the Killing Crew? Who is the person known as ‘The Engineer’ who could be the bomb maker?

There are some shady characters in this book and you don’t know who to trust. Can Carter trust those closest to him?

As well as many twists and turns, there is a huge red herring where I was almost shouting at the pages for Ash and Wolfe to realise the connection only to find later I was wrong!

The author has based this book on some historical facts and real events, and a lot of believable fiction, putting the reader right in the middle of the action.

As with all of the author’s books I have read, I thoroughly enjoyed this action packed fast paced thriller and of course meeting Carter again. Ash Carter is an excellent protagonist and I would highly recommend this series, as well as the Singapore series.

Please read the other blog tour reviews and follow Murray on Twitter. He is currently doing a giveaway for a signed copy if Cyprus Kiss.

Twitter @murraybaileybks

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Murray Bailey Is the author of Amazon bestseller Map of the Dead, the first of the series based on his interest in Egyptology. His main series however is the Ash Carter thrillers, inspired by his father’s experience in the Royal Military Police in Singapore in the early 1950s. Murray is well traveled, having worked in the US, South America and a number of European countries throughout his career as a management consultant. However he also managed to find the time to edit books, contribute to articles and act as a part-time magazine editor. Murray lives on the south coast of England with his family and a dog called Teddy.

Follow Murray on Twitter @MurrayBaileybks

by Tina Baker

Hardback publication day 24th February 2022

by Viper Books

SYNOPSIS

WHEN YOUR MARRIAGE IS THIS BROKEN, YOU MAY NOT MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.

A nightmare jolts Debs awake. She leaves the kids tucked up in their beds and goes downstairs. There’s a man in her kitchen, holding a knife. But it’s not an intruder. This is her husband Marc, the father of her children. A man she no longer recognises.

Once their differences were what drew them together, what turned them on. Him, the ex-army officer from a good family. Her, the fitness instructor who grew up over a pub. But now these differences grate to the point of drawing blood. Marc screams in his sleep. And Debs hardly knows the person she’s become, or why she lets him hurt her.

Neither of them is completely innocent. Neither is totally guilty. Marc is taller, stronger, and more vicious, haunted by a war he can’t forget. But he has no idea what Debs is capable of when her children’s lives are at stake…

MY REVIEW

So happy to be part of the Blog Tour for this
dark, disturbing yet compelling domestic psychological thriller. What a read!

The main storyline is set the night before Christmas Eve, when Debs and Marc’s marriage is at crisis point. They were ill matched right from the word go, but were initially attracted by each other’s differences. Opposites attract? 

Sadly after years of marriage, two young children, an affair and working late nights resentment for each other has built up until it has overflowed. Marc has reached breaking point and Deb finds him in the middle of the night, in their kitchen, holding a knife. What does he plan to do?

The current timeline is broken up as we are taken back to various times in their lives and we find a little more background on each of them. We find out about their disastrous childhoods and bad experiences which have moulded them into the people they are today. Damaged.

We also find out sufficient about supporting characters who are only a small part of the overall story such as the next door neighbour to feel we know them a little. Sometimes flicking back and forth can get confusing but not in this case as I was glued to the story.

Some of the scenes and descriptions of violence are difficult to read but the story would not be so hard hitting without them.

Excellent descriptive writing and well written characters, and I loved Lucy the dog who was in the main scene for the duration of the book to give a tiny amount of light heartedness to the overall dark subject matter.

Would definitely recommend.

Thank you to Viper Books for my spot on the tour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

About the Author

Tina Baker was brought up in a caravan after her mother, a fairground traveller, fell pregnant by a window cleaner. After leaving the bright lights of Coalville, she came to London and worked as a journalist and broadcaster for thirty years. She’s probably best known as a television critic for the BBC and GMTV. Call Me Mummy is Tina’s first novel.

by Kathy Wang

Due to be published in UK 26/5/22

by Verve Books

SYNOPSIS

In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she’s in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America’s most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life Balance 2.0); and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. But now Russia’s asking for more, and Julia’s getting nervous.

Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she’s working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she’s slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial “founder’s girlfriend”. One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she’s burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine’s privacy settings aren’t as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. 

The closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she’s the one who built her career; isn’t she entitled to protect the lifestyle she’s earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, Impostor Syndrome is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream.

MY REVIEW

Leo works at the SPB – state protection bureau, one of Russia’s three intelligence agencies

Julia is recruited by Leo and sent to Silicon Valley as a spy, and told to start up a company until she is required. She starts up Tangerine which provides email services, online chat etc and as COO she builds it into a hugely successful company. She becomes powerful and wealthy.

When Leo gets in touch to tell her she needs to marry and have children to fit in as an American citizen, she marries Charlie who is a successful doctor and has a baby.

Leo then gives her a task which, if she is found out, could mean her losing everything. She is enjoying her new life too much and does not want anything to threaten it, not even the reason she is in America.

When she eventually agrees to access personal user records, via ‘God Mode’ which gives her access to everything, one of the technical staff notices and begins investigating.

I found this to be quite a slow burner. I wasn’t really sure where it was going until about 75% in, then I enjoyed it as the action started happening.

Definitely food for thought about how secure our digital footprint is. 

by Lucy Foley

REVIEW BY TIM

SYNOPSIS

Welcome to No.12 rue des Amants

A beautiful old apartment block, far from the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine.

Where nothing goes unseen, and everyone has a story to unlock.

The watchful concierge
The scorned lover
The prying journalist
The naïve student
The unwanted guest 

There was a murder here last night.
A mystery lies behind the door of apartment three.

Who holds the key?

REVIEW BY TIM

I have, much to my shame, Lucy’s debut novel gathering dust in my TBR pile with one or two or three other novels. I think that now I may make the effort to look for it.

The book is set in an Apartment Block in Paris. Jess has travelled to spend time with her brother who she has not seen for sometime. They grew up apart as family tragedy meant they needed to go into the care system so their late childhood and adolescence took different paths. Jess works where ever, most recently in a bar, Ben, her brother, is an investigative journalist. 

The story begins with Jess arriving at the apartment to find Ben not there. He’s not just not there, everything seems to indicate he has vanished, done a runner, fallen off the radar. 

The story is told in the first person by all the protagonists so you learn what happens from each perspective, and little by little the picture unfolds, and it will keep you gripped. I had always fancied living in city apartment like this. Now I am not so sure!

About the Author

Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry – during which time she also wrote her debut, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time, and is busy travelling (for research, naturally!) and working on her next novel.

Visit her Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LucyFoleyAuthor and follow her on Twitter @lucyfoleytweets