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Snowflakes over Middlewick Bay by Eliza JScott #Review #MiddlewickBayBook8

I am delighted to feature the eighth in Eliza J Scott's Micklewick Bay series, Snowflakes Over Middlewick Bay , which was published by Storm Publishing on October 2nd. A wintry treat brimming with snowflakes, secrets and second chances!   When her beloved Aunt Colleen passes away, settling her affairs means doing the one thing Hannah Merryweather has spent years avoiding: returning to Micklewick Bay, the seaside town she fled years ago and has never quite found the courage to face again.   Coming home means facing the past too. Polly, her stepmother, and Darryl, her stepbrother, still loom large over the life she once knew, and the home she lost is never far from her thoughts.   Then, on her very first day back, she nearly collides with the one man she never expected to see again: Lachie, the kilted, green-eyed Scotsman who stole her heart last spring. His unexpected arrival in Micklewick Bay is the last complication Hannah needs – especially as feelings she thought she’...
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For When I'm Gone by Rebecca Ley #Review

 

 Rebecca Ley's debut novel, For When I'm Gone was published on 3rd September by Orion. 

Because there's never enough time to say goodbye...

Sylvia knows that she's running out of time. Very soon, she will exist only in the memories of those who loved her most and the pieces of her life she's left behind.

So she begins to write her husband a handbook for when she's gone, somewhere to capture the small moments of ordinary, precious happiness in their married lives. From raising their wild, loving son, to what to give their gentle daughter on her eighteenth birthday - it's everything she should have told him before it was too late.

But Sylvia also has a secret, one that she's saved until the very last pages. And it's a moment in her past that could change everything...

My Thoughts

This is a superb debut novel which has some poignant and heart-wrenching moments. You move from the present to the past through the journal which Sylvia has written for her husband as a sort of guide to how he can manage after her death from breast cancer. Through her words, you getto know her. Paul, her husband discovers a few things he did not know about her. It is a powerful story of grief, loss and moving on.

    Sylvia turns out to be a complicated but sincere person and you get to see her in her different roles: wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend. Through her, you also get to meet her children. There is so much that resonates with the reader. The daily minutiae of everyday living is set against some profound moments of self-awareness. Although at times it feels unbearably sad, there is also a feeling of resilience and hope. It is one of those books which touches a nerve at times and which has a lasting effect on the reader. Marvellous

In short: Read with a box of tissues to hand!

About the Author


Rebecca Ley is a journalist who wrote a column for the Guardian, Doing it for Dad, about her father's dementia. She has previously worked at the Times, the Sun and the Daily Mail. For When I'm Gone is her debut novel.

You can follow Rebecca here: Twitter 

Book link: Amazon UK 

Thanks to Rebecca Ley, Orion Books and Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for a copy of the book. 


 

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