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The Year of What If by Phaedra Patrick #Review

  I am delighted to join in the celebrations for the latest novel by Phaedra Patrick , The Year of What If. You can read my review of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper   here and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy  here Can the future be rewritten? On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she’s finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and she’s confident that, together, they will dispel an old family curse claiming Carter women are unlucky in love. But Carla’s highly superstitious family insists she visit a fortune teller before her big day, and the tarot cards reveal that a different man holds the key to Carla’s happiness – someone she met while travelling during a gap year, twenty-one years ago. This startling information spurs Carla to trace and revisit the ex-boyfriends she met during that time before she walks down the aisle. From Barcelona to Am...
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A Christmas Baby in Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller #Review #GoodwillHouseSeries

 

Here we are with the finale in the historical fiction series by Fenella J Miller, Goodwill House: A Christmas Baby at Goodwill House. It was published by Boldwood Books on August 31st.


July 194

As the war grinds on, Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing to close. A new chapter awaits, one that she never expected to happen to her – she is going to be a wife and mother again!

Excited with their new arrival and with her beloved Flying Officer John Sergeant back in her life, Joanna hopes that even though war clouds gather, love will prevail, and the future will look brighter than ever for the Harcourt family.

John has just one last mission to complete, before they can be together. But even though John is an experienced and competent pilot, the threat of the enemy is still close. Will this be one risk too far?

Or will their be another goodbye for the Harcourts before they close the doors of Goodwill House for ever?

Don't miss the emotional finale in the Goodwill House series!


My Thoughts

This book is full of the period detail which has given the series such authenticity. I found John’s story to be so interesting as he goes from posting to posting. Joanna goes through a massive change in her circumstances as she decides what direction her life is going to take. Life on the Home Front is a mixed experience as it is full of deprivations materially but brings out the best in the community.

    This is the finale in the Goodwill House series and although it is 1941 and halfway through the war, there is a sense in the story of loose ends being tidied up. You also sense the pressure which everyone must have been under and the unspoken fears that the characters feel at each parting, unable to know where loved ones were actually being sent to or the dangers they were under. Every day normality carries on with tiny misunderstandings betraying the tension that was always there. Joanna’s expected baby represents hope for the future but there is also sadness in the story at separations and the cycle of life and death. 

In short: love and separation on the Home Front


About the Author

Fenella J. Miller is the bestselling writer of over eighteen historical sagas. She also has a passion for Regency romantic adventures and has published over fifty to great acclaim. Her father was a Yorkshireman and her mother the daughter of a Rajah. She lives in a small village in Essex with her British Shorthair cat.

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Thanks to Fenella J Miller, Boldwood Books and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.

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