Happy Families by Julie Ma
I’d seen a bit of a buzz about Happy Families by Julie Ma recently, so I picked up a copy from Sainsbury’s. This debut novel was only published on 18th February this year and picked up Richard and Judy’s Search for a Bestseller 2020 prize. Happy Families is the story of three generations of a Chinese family living in a small town in Wales. The majority of the story is told by 34-year-old Amy, the daughter. There are...
Home improvements – if money were no object… #ad
This post contains a sponsored link #ad Every spring, we do some sort of home improvements. We moved into our house in 2014 and it needed a lot of work. We replaced the upstairs bathroom immediately, then the kitchen the following year – which desperately need doing. A year later, we did the downstairs toilet and in 2018, my favourite thing – our ensuite bathroom. It is beautiful now, but before it was so bad that if it...
Drucebox for teenage boys: Review and giveaway #ad
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All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
All the Lonely People is the latest novel by Mike Gayle, which recently came out in paperback. I absolutely loved his previous novel, Half a World Away, so I knew I had to read All the Lonely People. All the Lonely People is the story of 84-year-old Hubert. Hubert leads a very active retirement with his friends Dennis, Dotty and Harvey – at least that’s what he tells his daughter Grace when she calls from Australia every...
