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Floating Solo by Shelley Wilson #Review

  Fancy taking a leisurely boat ride along a beautiful Warwickshire canal? Floating Solo by Shelley Wilson was published by Hillfield Publishing on November 5th. Are you single? Have you lost your confidence when it comes to travelling? Would you welcome a few weeks away to find that missing spark? Climb aboard the Creaky Cauldron for an adventure like no other! Budding entrepreneur Kat Sinclair wants to grow her quirky solo narrowboat holiday enterprise but faces rejection at every turn. Until a Hollywood film crew gets in touch with the potential to change her business, dreams, and love life forever. 'Enemies to lovers' 'Small town romance'   My Thoughts   You can't help but fall under the spell of life on the canals when you read this story. Kat has big dreams for her business but seems to lack confidence to put it into action. Her Floating Solo holidays are very successful for her clients and many use the experience to sort out their thoughts and plan their ...

Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou #Review #Giveaway

It is a great priviledge to welcome you to Books, Life and Everything today for Laurie Petrou's debut novel, Sister of Mine. I also have a great Giveaway to offer you today. Details on how to enter are at the foot of this post.


Steeped in intrigue and suspense, Sister of Mine is a powerhouse debut; a sharp, disquieting thriller written in stunning, elegant prose with a devastating twist. Fans of Liane Moriartyā€™s Big Little Lies and Shari Lapenaā€™s The Couple Next Door will be utterly absorbed by this compulsively readable novel. 

TWO SISTERS. ONE FIRE.  A SECRET THAT WONā€™T BURN OUT. 

The Grayson sisters are trouble. Everyone in their small town knows it. But no-one can know of the secret that binds them together.  Hattie is the light. Penny is the darkness.  Together, they have balance. But one night the balance is toppled. A match is struck. A fire is started. A cruel husband is killed. The potential for a new life flickers in the fireā€™s embers, but resentment, guilt, and jealousy suffocate like smoke. Their lives have been engulfed in flames ā€“  will they ever be able to put them out?

My Thoughts
Claustrophobia mixed with the banal and everyday- these are the elements which I look for in a psychological thriller and you will find them in this novel in spades! The relationship between the two sisters is fascinating as you track their lives and realise that the power balance between the two of them seems to see-saw. 

    This is a fairly short but concentrated read with you never quite knowing what is going to be revealed. The two sisters hide the truth right to the end and it is a masterly finale. This is a great debut novel which keeps you guessing right to the end. 

In short: relationships are stretched beyond breaking point in this psychological thriller.  
    
About the Author



LAURIE PETROU has a PhD in Communication and Culture, and is an Associate Professor at Ryersonā€™s RTA School of Media in Toronto, where she is also the Director of the Masters of Media Production program. She has given several TEDx talks on subjects including gender and rejection. Laurie was the inaugural winner of the Half the World Global Literati Award in 2016, a prize that honours unpublished work featuring female protagonists, for her novel Sister of Mine. She now lives in a small town in Ontario wine country with her husband, a wine maker, and their two sons.  

You  can follow Laurie here:  Goodreads

Book link: Amazon US  |  Amazon UK



Thanks to Laurie Petrou and Anne Cater of  Random Things Tours  for a copy of the book and a place on the tour. 


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Giveaway (UK only)





To win a copy of Sister of Mine,  just Follow and Retweet the pinned Tweet at @bookslifethings.


The prize will be three copies of the novel, each one including an exclusive handwritten 'behind the scenes' note from the author.

Closing Date 24th June 2019. 




*Terms and Conditions ā€“UK entries only.  The winner will be selected at random via Tweetdraw from all valid entries and will be notified by Twitter and/or email. If no response is received within 7 days then I reserve the right to select an alternative winner. Open to all entrants aged 18 or over.  Any personal data given as part of the competition entry is used for this purpose only and will not be shared with third parties, with the exception of the winnersā€™ information. This will passed to the giveaway organiser and used only for fulfilment of the prize. I am not responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.

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