Take Mum Out by Fiona Gibson

 

This is the first book I have read by this author and I have a coupe more of her books in my to read pile that is ever growing !!!!!!!!

I enjoyed every page and laughed out many times so this is a must read book for lazy day in the sun or an escape from a busy lifestyle.

In this book we meet Alice a single mother to two teenage boys, Logan and Fergus in a little flat contented and she lives close by to the boys school which she works at during the day and by night and weekender she runs her meringue business on the side .Life is good, but her three friends have other plans........

Her best friend's feel that  she needs a man in her life it has been far to long for since she had some lovin in her life so she is set up on blind dates.

Val is the first to produce her date of Giles who works with her who happens to be a younger man at first she is not sure about going on a date with a young man but she enjoys her time with Giles till she is mortified that she is taken for hid mother !!!!! and decides that maybe that had scared of Giles for life and doesn't think that she will hear for him anytime soon.

Her second date catches her on a whim and when she blasts down the phone thinking its one of the boys and again left mortified as its Stephen calling about a date they meet for lunch but the date is left to his choice and he books a pizza place within a children's play area !!!!

Stephen the dentist is a little out of practice as he is the sole parent to his daughter and when he is not working his life runs around this daughter's the date goes well and Alice like Stephen but fills that they will be good friends...

With all this extra active of her love life Alice has to deal with the boys growing up and holidaying with they father for the Easter Holidays so with this found freedom she decides to go to Paris with Charlie another date, he whisks her of to Paris  she wants to see the sights that she hasn't seen in a long while but Charlie has other ideas but Alice manages to escape his clutches and if that didn't put her off then Charlie stealing things from the hotel and decides that her and Charlie are not suited in any form.

Her mother comes to stay which breaks up the loss of the boys and they celebrate her birthday and decide to visit a museum and bump into to Stephen and Molly his daughter, they land up spending the day together it felt easy to be around Stephen .Even Molly  loved spending time with Alice's mother and her wild stories  by the day of the day she was pairing Alice and Stephen off, but Alice informs her mother that they are no more than friends and nothing more ........

On return of Logan's and Fergus's little break with they father she finds out that Logan is moving out and in with his father and Patsy his girlfriend he has promise that he is converting the barn into an apartment for him with out even talking to Alice about it .

Alice doesn't take the news well losing one of her babies also she is turning 40 is not helping things but she doesn't have time to brood as the meringue business is taking off and she finds herself in the local deli run by Pascal hot and French owner who is flirting with her !!! his voice does wonders but Alice has had enough of dates and it goes nowhere.

her birthday arrives and she heads out to the bar for drinks with the girls but lands up at a surprise party for her and someone had invited the hot deli owner she spends most of the night talking to Pascal and they arrange to meet for drinks at a later date but her party doesn't go to plan as Logan crashes on to the floor in pain and a tooth missing Alice spends the rest of the party in A&E then phones Stephen as he is the only dentist she knows of the top of her head and he tells her to come round in the morning and he will sort it out .

How does Alice cope with the boys growing up and not being boys anymore but growing men !!!

Who's Alice prince charming  the out of practice dentist or the hot deli owner well you will just have to read the book as you will love every minuet.

 

One Small Act Of Kindness by Lucy Dillion

In this wonderful story we meet Libby who is married to Jason who both have given up wonderful jobs and life of the big city to run the family hotel in Jason home town , the hotel also comes with a Mother in Law and her dog  in tow , but them dew Libby and Margert do get on..
Running the hotel isn't easy it needs a complete make over from bathroom taps to a new booking in system!!!!
Libby starting to have the day from hell trying to find a booking that Margert made but is no where to be found and a room that's ready and suited to a elderly couple and that her on her door step expecting to stay as they have booked ,but a noise from outside draws her out into a scene of horror but she soon assessing and thanking control of the situation she sees there are two cars involved it a smash and a lady undera wheel of one of the cars she stays in control till the police and ambulance arrive she has a quick look for anything laying around of the lady under the car wheel to help them at the hospital but all she has was a slip of paper with the name address of her hotel why was she coming there she wasn't booked in Jason and Marget knew nothing about the mystery lady why was he out with no ID or phone who goes out with now phone ??????
When the mystery lady wakes up in hospital she has no idea who she is not even a name and has no memory at all even the accident she is feeling lost not knowing anyone or anything . When Libby visits the hospital with her mother in law she ant help but check on the mystery lady and finds her awake and even thou they had only really meet that morning they bonded straight way even thou they where complete strangers. Libby helped her pick a name of Pippa she felt it suited her but didn't know why, after a week later Libby goes to find Libby who is being discard to social services has now one come to claim her and still no memory apart from the last few days , Libby steps in and takes care of duty of Pippa until she gets well and better and even more remembers and from they the friendship really began to build stronger ties from Pippa trying to find here past and Libby helping her find her pastas this was the first friend she made since she moved from London, Jason just slotted back in his friends of Ruby friends and appeared that he never left and she was not apart of that click.
When they back at the hotel Libby lets Pippa settle in and they take a walk to the scene they comes across an item that the police must of missed and it brings flash backs and Pippa remembers she is Alice Robinson, her parents happy times and then losing them all over again the pain , she had a start a name but they soon hit a brick wall she is nowhere to be found on the Internet not even Facebook !!
After another night of Jason Dow th ruby club the girls hit the internet but have no luck so try they hand at the booking system which to Libby surpise Alice is a dab hand at it just as they get a run at it they hear a noise but Libby insist that its Jason home from his drinking session that he promise he would not get drunk but find that Luke is carrying a never drunk Jason through the door , but as soon as he sets eyes on Alice he calls her by her name he knows her he many hold the key to hr past. Once Jason is tuck up in bed for the night Luke heads into the girls he is a little taken back the Alice doesn't  not respond to him when Libby explained what happen , Luke explained that he meet Alice while he was working down here and the Pub he was staying at Alice worked behind the bar not not where she lived , but she had a boyfriend . They called the pub where she worked they might have personnel details on file , they boss know her voice straight away but was shocked to hear from her as he thought she was on a five star hoilday with Gethin (the boyfriend) when she arrived he gave her his home address . Luke takes her to the address  but they was no one home so she leaves a note with the hotel number on. The next morning Alice wakes that she is a little closer to her past but has a feeling is more in her past than he says but just can't remember when she gives up hope that  Gathin will call she pops out for coffee to calm her nerves he calls and is coming straight over!!!!!!
When she comes face to face she doesn't get the pull she does with Luke but puts it down to nerves but she doesn't really know this man part from photos and stories he is trying her of they life together,but Gathin wants her to move back home Alce is holding back for some reason but can't put her finger on it .
While Alice is moving forward with her life Libby's seems to be going down hill while she is out visiting she gets a call that the workmen are walking of the job all her plans for an August finish is up in smoke she finds out that Jason has been paying the bill after a screaming row Jason comes clean that they where more bills coming in than he expected and that he invested what savings they did have in a deal even after he promised he would not go back to after they walked from after he was sacked .  Jason walks out and leaves Libby to deal with all the mess on her own.
Will Libby dream hotel come true with or without Jason. Will Alicefind her past and who's in her future , well you will just have to get yourself a copy and read.

This fabulous story is out 23rd of April so go get a copy  and get lost in this wonderful story.

The Secerts We Share by Emma Hannigan

This is the first book I have read by this author, I'm so glad I requested this book to review and now look forward to reading more from this author .

In this story which has three stories running along side and the cross over many times throughout the book which is one of the things I loved most about the book. We meet Clara who is in her eighths and is going strong who's family is falling apart at the seems , Max her son walked out twenty years ago and has never looked back and moving to the U.S. Ave is a strong business women and runs the
family business like clock work and is carrying on the family legacy but Clara feels that Ave is
losing  her way in life nursing a broke heart and bitterness towards Max for leaving her, Clara decides
to look for Max this good be her last chance to make peace and she wants to know he is well and happy, she hires a private investigator to find him. In know time he has found Max who is married and they have a seventeen year old  daugther , Max becane a doctor just like his father. Clara writes to Her granddaughter Nathalie explaining who she is and that she would love to meet her one day and also her mother and father who she dearly missed.
Across the waters Max works hard at his job maybe too hard and when he is home he is there but not really there , he has a wonderful wife Amber and a daugther that is growing up fast which he is missing out on. it's a blink of an eye Nathalie is involved in a car crash on the night of her prom she and her boyfriend are the only survivors all the others are killed even her best friend Mackenzie which she is fighting to accept and Nathalie goes into a drinking melt down and its Amber last straw when is found her drunk and that she got a homeless guy to buy her vodka . Amber is at breaking point when she reads the letter from Clara and she calls her explaining that she thought Max's family was dead but this was clearly not the case and decides that Nathalie needs some time away from LA
with her extant end family across the seas in Ireland  and time out, this opens a can of worms that
Max with Nathalie thousands of miles away she hoped the she would get answers to her many questions as now she feels that she really never knew her and everything they had was based on a lie.
When Clara and Nathalie meet for the first time there not emotional hello but a respect of two women meeting for the first time but Nathalie is going to keep her at arms length, but Clara has a way with people they warm to her every quickly and over they forst meal her magic seems to working on Nathalie especially when they found out they both like to make things and Clara (Oma) offered to teach her how to make a quilt while she is staying with her. She is in too minds she is warming to Oma she wants to let her in but why has her father keep his side of the family away.
making the quilt is bonding them together but where in the sewing room she stumbles upon a box of letters from Hannah to Lukas during the war of they love and strength for each other she would write to him about everything even when she was sent to a camp which was her darkest hour after giving birth and giving up they baby daugther to protect her from the Germans . Nathalie reads all the letters followed the story from start to finish and started to all more for an understanding of her Oma (
grandmother) ,but will anther sercert destroy her heart or mend it better, Will Max ever forgive his mother  and himself for walking away and his dear sister ever forgive him and let love back in her heart!!!! You will just have to read this wonderful story yourself , but you will not be disappointed.

The book is due for publication on 9th April 2015 go get a copy and enjoy.