Lawrence Fyre is a flamboyant optimist, running a book shop in the Lanes in Brighton called “Sargasso Sea.” Marin Strang, a shy but self-composed teacher of Spanish, was brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness but now she appears to be running away, not just from her father but also from life itself, as she flitsContinue reading “Piano from a 4th Storey Window”
Category Archives: Contemporary drama
Concealment by Rose Edmunds
In “Concealment” we meet high flying achiever, Amy Robinson, Head of the Entrepreneurs’ Tax Advising Group in a large finance company. But “nothing is but what is not.” Amy hides a secret from her youth and she is determined to appear normal, despite the voice in her head. If that were not enough, Amy hasContinue reading “Concealment by Rose Edmunds”
The Hour Before Dawn By Sara MacDonald
The Hour Before Dawn is the story of two generations which is told in the details of traumatic events in 1976 and the present day. Unusually there are two heroines in this novel, Fleur Montrose and her estranged daughter Nikki. The two women have been torn apart by a mysterious tragedy in Malaysia when NikkiContinue reading “The Hour Before Dawn By Sara MacDonald”
Last Child by Terry Tyler
After the tremendous success of Terry Tyler’s, “Kings and Queens,” set in recent times but based on the Tudor court of Henry VIII, its follow up, “Last Child,” was a treat I was looking forward to. And it doesn’t disappoint. At the beginning of the novel we find orphaned Isabella, Erin and Jasper, the modernContinue reading “Last Child by Terry Tyler”
Lizanne lost in a good book 