Open house by Jill Marsell

This is the first book by Jill Marsell that I have read, so when I read the back I was hooked and had to read !!!!!!!
In this book we meet Neil O'Driscoll who since forever has had a crush on Marcus Kilburton according to her diary, so when Marcus opens the castle to the public Neil has to be his to because his  personal assistance to save her mother house from being sold from under her....

Neil is not like everyone in her family she studied at school when to university  so when she got the job she had to proof she was good at it and stay away from Marcus !!! But Neil has served secrets from her past is about to catch yo with one which is being her special gift of fortune telling from her gypsy roots but is there a part of her past that doesn't want to let go can she see her future with!!!!!

But her best Hetty as stuck by her , so now she needs her best friend as her world is falling apart as her husband has left her from a younger model moved in down the road in the same village!!!!!
Hetty is a wonderful cook and in the end gets her revenge as the new girl friend as put dear old Tony on a diet so when visit they daughter tony is craving her food and soon fells into bed with his ex wife that he left and then comes an affair but Hetty has a good heart and stops it as she feels sorry for the growl friend but also gets her confident back that tony took when he left her and towards the end of the book we find Hetty being talked up by the new local doctor ..........

Through the book we have bits and piece of Neil's life but it soon comes together the there is a dark sercert in Neil's heart that when she went away to university she feel in love with a Ben but they was one little problem Ben lived off his parents which Neil so when they had a mother of all rows over a holiday Neil had enough and left Ben but he decided to go away with another girl instead and that night they were involved in a very bad car crash   and Ben was left with not much life at all Neil stood by he sat by his bed everyday till he came around even thou his parents had given up hope months ago on they son. Ben doesn't not remember  breaking up with her so Neil so treats it like it over time Neil's love turns to guilt and is staying for all the wrong reasons does she let Marcus know her dark secret will she open her heart to her and will Ben let her go , that you will have to find out by reading the book but you will not be disappointed .

I'm looking forward to reading more books from this great author .

Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff

There are so many books out there that left an impression in our lives the first book was The Colour Purple and now I can add this to my list the book is so beautifully written that I felt I was there at it has made an impact and everyone should read this book but warning you will need tissues....

In this book we meet Jenni and ghost writer who has kept a dark sercert for twenty fives years she doesn't even tell anyone not even her best friends or the love of her life Rick !!!!!

Rick and Jenni and rick are at a crossroads in there relationship Rick wants children but Jenni doesn't so when Jenni is approched at her best friends wedding by she and Rick decide sometime apart will do them good but when Jenni finds out where the job is she starts to panic but decides to face her demons head on.

When she arrives at Polvarth, Cornwall the place she vowed never return too as it was too painful and now everything she pushed to back of her head was coming rushing back over and over again.....
But Jenni was here to do a job and pushes throughout it to meet Klara her client for the next few days.

As Jenni starts to record Klara story she finds that they share the same grief for a lost brother and opens wounds that Jenni doesn't  want to deal with from chapter five Klara starts to talk about her children hood and her family moving to Java on a plantation farm they are all close and family life is grand but as Klara opens up more about her family and the war moving to Java and book travels through the time of the war moving to Java, this book is beautiful written. Into great detail of the time Klara , her mother brother in war camps I really felt the I was there too as the story pulled me in I felt like I was Jenni listening to the detail but as the Klara story comes to and end Jenni opens up about what happen to her brother and Klara and Jenni find a bond that will never break and Jenni starts to heal and I not saying to much as this book needs to be read by your own eyes and I hope it leaves a mark in your reading history as a book that must be read.

White Wedding by Milly Johnson

I'm now a hard core Milly Johnson fan and need to read all her books before anymore new ones come out !!!!!!!!!
As you can tell this book is based around weddings , in this book we are introduce to three brides Bel, Max and Violet who meet by chance and become close friends. the first wedding we visit is Bel's to
Richard. Bel has control on her she not even let her step mum help her even thou she has been there all her life but she still can't let her in due to her dead mother,  Bel as arrange everything to the 'T ' for her big day. Bel is very calm up till the day when she puts on a very pain dress but nit her mothers one that was left to her she has a moment where she feels is she doing the right thing but she has come this far it's just getting through the day. The wedding is a very plain occasion  as did Vicky and Max felt something was not right !q but everything was revel at the reception as to why it was very pain and low key in cost. Bel takes the stand at the speeches and informs her family and friends the new husband had been having an affair which her cousin Shaden for many months and had made a special cake showing exactly what they had been doing .Bel walked out of the reception and runaway too her fathers cottages but before she went she let notes for her friends and dad explaining why she had to go through with the wedding. All Bel wants is to be alone but when she arrives she finds that one of the cottages has been rented out all Bel wants is a place to hide and cry out her broken heart but there is the most ignoring man staying in the cottage will he leave her alone with her broken heart or will he be the one to fix it!!!!
The next wedding we visit it is Max's to Stuart , Max is a high powered business women how runs her own business and is not short of money Stuart is school teacher on a normal wage stuart wants a small do which his wages can cover, But Max secretly wants a big fat gypsy wedding and starts planning behind his back knowing that she will be her way in the long run, closer to the wedding stuart starts to feeling that no longer belong to together as it will not work they are too different people and his head is turned by an old friend from school but dies not do a thing as he loves Max until he finds the wedding folder hidden with a lock on it once he is indies it proves that they are not meant to be together but Max still goes ahead with the wedding hope that he meets her at the church but he doesn't so Max is left heart broken but Max a friend waiting in the background will he be team. Stuart or will he mend her broken heart and become team Max.
The third wedding is Violet and Glyn , Violet is the distance from all the girls when it comes to planning of the wedding  she still doesn't have a dress up in till the month if the wedding but Violet hiding a secret she is marry Glyn for all the wrong reason but feels trapped in her own life but is still going through with it !!!! Violet lives with Glyn in his flat but Glyn lost s job and had a nervous brake down and is now house bound and all he needs is Violet 24/7 and she could breath so she escapes to her mothers and her new business for an ice cream shop but Glyn phones every second she is not with him. She finally finds a dress but it still doesn't feel right on even every dress fitting  the dress feels tight but really it's lose and has to be taken in from losing weight. Violet business is her only escape leading up to the wedding but she is not alone in the shop as she has a painter in to decorate the shop she starts  to have feeling for him and knows that she does not love Glyn and hadn't for many years but stay with him because if she left again he would try and kill himself  but she makes the break this comes at a cost as Glyn leaves the flat and need to the shop where he finds Pav working in the shop and he see red and hurt hi and sets fire to the shop!!!!! Violet world is turned upside down but knows that all she wants is her Prince Charming will Pav be that guy you will have to read all the book to the very end to get all the twist and turns in the girls life's . another 10  out of 10  everyone must read.

A hopeless romantic by Harriet Evans

This is the first book I have read by by this lovely lady and probably the longest book I have read to date but loved every page.
Laura foster is the hopeless romantic who falls in love at a drop of a hat and this is how the story starts will Laura fallen for off on Dan who is in a relationship but they have been off on for so long that it seems he has a relationship with Dan  which is kept a secret even from her best friends paddy, Jo and Hilary but then one bad day turns into a bad week as Jo finds out about the affair and then Laura finds out that dan is never leaving his girlfriend especially now she is pregnant and too top this off her job that she has worked at so hard but in the last months as gone down hill she gets herself  suspended!!!!!!!
Laura world falls apart and she trows all her rom con films books out the window as they is nothing of Prince Charming and happy endings anymore.
In part two we see Laura coming out of her self pity pit and going away with her parents and gran to theory holiday home in Norfolk to turn clear her head. While there to please her parents she visits a stately home charley hall for the day she was not really in the mood but was trying to keep her parents happy when she bumps into nick and cheeky groundsman who after a few minuets asks her out for drinks that night the new Laura tells herself that it is just a friends things but they got it off like a house on fire and before she how's she fallen for nick against all her rules with the new Laura , then Laura finds out as secret that Nick is not a cheeky groundsman but the Marquis of Ranlagh and runs has she knows that they are from different worlds and that it would not work but it has change her and realised that Dan was never going to be Prince Charming  and is strong for it she comes home after her grand party ready to get her job back and move on with her life just with no men in it for awhile , while on a job do she bumps into Nick and he is cold a brass and Laura confirms that they are from different worlds she try's to leave but nick insist on taking her home this does nit go while and Laura insist at getting out half way home and again she is not with her Prince Charming but she moves on with her life in work no one knows her secret apart form gran . So when she gets a text saying they need to talk and that he wants her to attend a n autumn ball from advice of gran that life is too shirt and too see what she might want she goes to find out that his best friend has set the whole thing up and she is thrown in the deep end and she can't cope and it only confirm her fears that they r from different worlds but before nick could tell her any different her worst nightmare had happened her fear gran had dead from a heart attack but she never got to say goodbye but her dear gran  wrote to her when the days where coming near and told her that life is too short to have the worms man in it and to chase those dreams of Prince Charming and there is one out there for everyone so does Laura get her Prince Charming  by following her heart nit her head you will just have to read the book to find out .

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.