Publisher: Viking

Blog Tour: Reasons to be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe

Posted March 24, 2019 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour: Reasons to be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe

Reasons to be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe Published by Viking on March 28, 2019 Genres: Fiction Pages: 288 Format: Hardback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads ‘Funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish’ Marian Keyes ‘I read all of Reasons To Be Cheerful in one glorious gulp’ Caitlin Moran ____________________________________’When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn’t shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell of it all’ So begins a young woman’s journey to adulthood. Lizzie Vogel leaves her alcoholic, novel-writing mother and heads for Leicester to work for a racist, barely competent dentist obsessed with joining the freemasons. Soon Lizzie is heading reluctantly, if at top speed, into the murky depths of adult life: where her driving instructor becomes her best friend; her first boyfriend prefers birdwatching to sex and […]

Blog Tour / Review: Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh

Posted June 5, 2017 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh

Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh Published by Viking on July 13th 2017 Genres: Fiction, Historical Pages: 336 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Stepping off the boat in Mombasa, eighteen-year-old Rachel Fullsmith stands on Kenyan soil for the first time in six years. She has come home. But when Rachel reaches the family farm at the end of the dusty Rift Valley Road, she finds so much has changed. Her beloved father has moved his new partner and her son into the family home. She hears menacing rumours of Mau Mau violence, and witnesses cruel reprisals by British soldiers. Even Michael, the handsome Kikuyu boy from her childhood, has started to look at her differently. Isolated and conflicted, Rachel fears for her future. But when home is no longer a place of safety and belonging, where do you go, and who do you turn to? 1950s colonial Kenya made for an atmospheric setting  for Leopard at the Door, as Rachel returns home to place that is not the same as she once remembered. Jennifer’s writing about Kenya is […]