Genre: Historical

Blog Tour / Review: The House on Sunset Lake by Tasmina Perry

Posted September 1, 2016 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 2 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The House on Sunset Lake by Tasmina Perry Published by Headline Review on August 25, 2016 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 400 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Tasmina Perry is the bestselling author of The Last Kiss Goodbye and The Proposal. Her new novel is a heart-wrenching love story bejewelled with mysteries and dark secrets, set in the Deep South. If you love sailing away with Santa Montefiore’s novels or unwrapping the layers of the latest Rachel Hore, you will adore losing yourself in this book. 1995. Savannah, Georgia, where the sunsets are long and golden and the air is hot and heavy with promise. Student Jim Johnson isn’t happy when he has to abandon his plans of a carefree month of inter-railing to spend the summer in the Deep South with his mother and his father, a down-on-his luck author who has been sent to Savannah to […]

Review: If I Only Had A Duke by Lenora Bell

Posted August 25, 2016 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.If I Only Had a Duke by Lenora Bell Published by Piatkus on August 30, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 384 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads After three failed seasons and a disastrous jilting, Lady Dorothea Beaumont has had more than enough of her family’s scheming. She won’t domesticate a duke, entangle an earl, or vie for a viscount. She will quietly exit to her aunt’s Irish estate for a life of blissful freedom. Until an arrogant, sinfully handsome duke singles her out for a waltz, making Thea the most popular belle of the season. The duke ruined her plans and he’ll just have to fix them. Garrett, Duke of Osborne, is far too heartless for debutantes or marriage—he uses dalliances and public spectacle to distract from his real purpose: finding the man who destroyed his family. When his search leads to Ireland, the last thing he needs […]

Blog Tour / Review: The House in Quill Court by Charlotte Betts

Posted August 24, 2016 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The House in Quill Court by Charlotte Betts Published by Piatkus on August 25, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 416 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads 1813. Venetia Lovell lives by the sea in Kent with her pretty, frivolous mother and idle younger brother. Venetia’s father, Theo, is an interior decorator to the rich and frequently travels away from home, leaving his sensible and artistic daughter to look after the family. Venetia designs paper hangings and she and her father often daydream about having an imaginary shop where they would display the highest quality furniture, fabrics and art to his clients. When a handsome but antagonistic stranger, Jack Chamberlaine, arrives at the Lovell’s cottage just before Christmas bringing terrible news, Venetia’s world is turned upside-down and the family have no option but to move to London, to the House in Quill Court and begin a new […]

Review: The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans

Posted August 23, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans Published by Headline Review on May 19, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 448 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads What magic is this? You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house. They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder … and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you’ve been waiting all your life to hear. This house is Nina Parr’s birthright. It holds the truth about her family – and a chance to put everything right at last. Harriet Evans. She brings you home. Two things happen when you are a Parr girl: when you are ten, you are told about your future role. The second thing that a Parr girl at some point must learn is harder to tell of. It is a dark work indeed, the business […]

Review: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan

Posted August 11, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan Published by Hodder & Stoughton on June 30, 2016 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Historical Pages: 321 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads 1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer’s daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war. But in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. A small lie escalates. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to atone for her behaviour – but has she left it too late? 2014, and Maggie’s granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn’t wait to leave thirteen years earlier, marriage over; career apparently ended thanks to one terrible mistake. Can she rebuild herself […]

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