Take a Look at Me Now by Miranda Dickinson.

This is the first book by Miranda Dickinson I have read. I added this book to my reading pile due to my fellow bloggers giving it a great review and I was not disappointed.
If I did not have my lovely daughters and housework to deal with I would have read this book in one sitting !!!!!! It's that good.
Thus story is based alround Nell Sullivan, she works for the council in the planning department and has been there for mny years. Nell has always stuck to her five year plan in work and relationships or should I say relationship with Aiden who is on off boyfriend material .
Nell walk into work one morning think that Aiden had a change of heart and that they are meant to be together but hits her with the blow that she is losing her job there and then due to downsizing. Nell stocked then mad then calm as the information sets in Nell starts to think that she wants to do something special with her payout. As they leave the office most of the group head to the pub to drown they sorrows but Nell's as other ideas and walks into a travel agents and out of the blue she decides to visit her cousin Lizzy in San Francisico for 8 weeks !!!!!
As soon as Nell arrives she knows she made the right choice, after spending a week sight seeing with Lizzy the city starts to feel like home. While in this lovely city  meets some great characters in the way from Annie a crazy diner owner that dishes up the die for waffles to Prince Charming Max Rossi.
Being in San Francisco Nell has a clear head and realises that Aiden really isn't the love of her life and also starts to think about her future and realising that she has been putting her dream on hold  her live for cooking, so Nell volunteers at Annie's for the rest of her stay to get work experience  and soon loves working there but that's  not the only thing Nell is falling in love with......
But before she knows she fallen in love with Max and it's time to go on the eve of her return to the Uk Nell discovery the max has a daughter and he is still live his wife!!!!!!
When home Nell has no time for tears as she is making her dreams comes true and along the way Aiden gets her on the way to her dream we'll she thinks it's her dream will she open her diner in  the UK or will Nell find her way back to the heart of San Francisco!!!!!

I live this book from ten first Chapter and it reminds me of all the places I visited on my honeymoon so if you have not read this book then go get a copy and read xxxxx

It happened in Venice by Molly Hopkins

This is the first book I have read by this author. I found this book very enjoyable  and hard to put down !!
This book is based around Evie Dexter who's heart was slightly broken by her two timing Rod the Fiancé , Evie takes him back but promises to never bring up the affair again which Evie finds hard.
After spending a weekend away Rob he moves in and is planning they future telling her , where and when to work Evie feels things are going to fast and that she loves her jobs and does not want to change especially her tour guide job that takes her around the world and meeting new people and seeing new things .
In time Rob runs away with his plans for they future and takes Evie to meet his parents!!!! In one evening she finds out they his parents do not live in Spain he has a wife already and he has a son. Evie world falls apart.
Her friends rally round John her friend / client from the holiday tours takes her away to Dublin and supports her through the bad times!!!!!!!!
After months of crying and self pity Evie is ready to face the world, she looking for tours again and  her hrs at the bar that Nik her best friend owns to help him out.
Evie is sent to a mystery guest review in Venice siting in the hotel bar drinking her gin and tonic that costs the earth!!!! But all the places and all the hotel who walks into hers......
Is Evie ready to look for love or is it right under her nose you will just have to read the book to find out.

A Spring Affair by Milly Johnson

This is my third book by this author . I must say it was a nice surprise to have the book based around  one character instead of four from the last four books I have read, but was not a disappointed .

A spring affair is based around Lou Winter who life consist of a mother that is never satisfied with her choices and actions in life and a unfaithful, ungrateful husband Phil. Lou life wasn't always about running around pleasing people needs once she had her own dreams and plans , Lou thinks it's all forgotten !!!!! Until she comes across an article on clearing clutter, unwanted and unused items from your home. as lout starts to clear  her home she realises she has more clutter than she thought and oders a skip in walks Tom Bloom with his lovely dog Clooney into her life.

The more she clears the houses the more the stronger she gets and opens her eyes to her life. the past comes to head of Phil unfaithfulness to her and Lou feels that the only personal she needs is her best friend Deb who she lost during her Split from Phil. Once Deb is back on the scene her life gets stronger by every hour in the day. once she has finished clearing her house  of clutter and her new business is on the move. Lou takes ajob on clearing someone's else clutter out  that she did not love her husband anymore and her marriage was over from the minuet she took back her husband so the only thing left to clear out of her life was Phil.

From that moment Lou life changed forever but you will have to read the book to find out how.