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Amanda Prowse's I Wish is part of the Wishing Tree series. Verity and daughter, Sophie leave home in London to take an extended vacation in Linden Falls, Vermont. Verity's heart is broken after her husband's rejection. Verity and Sophie both think they know what they want but in the end, is that really what they wanted?
Book Blitz: To Love And Be Loved - Amanda Prowse.
Book Blitz: To Love And Be Loved - Amanda Prowse. @mrsamandaprowse @KellyALacey @lovebookstours @igbooktours #Lovebookstours
I’m excited to be working with Love Books Tours to be bringing you a stop of the To Love And Be Loved Book Blitz. As usual, I’ll introduce you to the author, and then we’ll take a look at the book. Amanda Prowse is an international bestselling author of twenty-eight novels published in dozens of languages. Her chart-topping titles What Have I Done?, Perfect Daughter, My Husband’s Wife, The…
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An Ordinary Life was one of those books that tugs on your heartstrings from the beginning until the end. Great story line. Wonderful characters. Contrasts perceptions and behaviors over the years. Highly recommend this WWII historical fiction.
Book Review: The Day She Came Back by By Amanda Prowse
I’m not sure how I feel about this book, as I did and didn’t enjoy it. There are a few funny moments tinged with a lot of sadness and anger. I can understand the main character being angry at the death of her grandmother. Who brought her up. Along with the anger of finding out that throughout her 18 years of life, what she was told and lead to believe about her family was a lie.
The character was finding it hard to comprehend what she had been told and what actually turned out to be the truth. In real life anyone would go through a huge mixture of feelings and the author portrayed this very well. For me however the part I enjoyed the most in the book was the epilogue, when we found ourselves ten years down the line.
Victoria is 18 years old, she lives with her elderly grandmother Prim. Who is the only family that she has. Her mother passed away when she was a baby, due to her being a drug addict. Prim and even her grandfather kept to this story until he passed away when Victoria was 9.
One day Victoria goes out with her best friend Daksha and as they are leaving Prim asks her to bring a balaclava when she meant a baklava. When Victoria gets home she finds Prim in her favourite chair in the garden room, she is slouched with blank looking eyes. Victoria realised that her grandmother has passed away. She contacts Daksha and she and her parents turn up to help her. Daksha’s father is actually Prim’s GP.
Daksha and her family do all they can to help and support Victoria and when she finally goes back home Daksha stays with her. On the day of Prim’s funeral Victoria is still in shock and is basically just going through the motions. After the funeral they all go back to Victoria’s for the wake. When she spots a woman out by the lake. She goes out to see if she can help her. The woman somehow looks a little bit familiar but she can’t understand why. The woman is called Sarah and she drops a huge bombshell that sets Victoria spiralling a bit out of control. She says that she’s Victoria’s mother!
She asks the woman to prove who she says she is. With all of this Victoria doesn’t know what to do, her mind is constantly going over everything she grew up knowing and what Sarah has told her. She meets up with a boy she went to school with and they hook up with each other. Flynn isn’t the right guy for Victoria, but she can’t see that until he persuades her to have a party at her house.
Daksha isn’t impressed about the party, plus she can’t go anyway as her mother is taking her to see family. Besides Daksha and Victoria have had a bit of a falling out due to the way Victoria is treating Daksha along with doing things she wouldn’t normally do.
The party ends up being a disaster. Victoria gets drunk, people are abusing the house. She ends up hiding in the larder being sick in to a boot. When she realises she needs to find Flynn. However when she does find him, he’s in Prim’s bed having sex with another girl. She wishes that Daksha was there to help her get rid of everyone, but she wasn’t there. So she called on the only other person that said she could count on him day or night, Prim’s companion Gerald.
Gerald turns up and starts to get everyone out, except Flynn as he starts mouthing off at Gerald. So Gerald pulls out his father’s pistol from WWII and threatens them all if they don’t leave now. Unbeknown to everyone the pistol was decommissioned after the war.
The next day everyone rallies around Victoria and they get the house back to how it should be. All of them in their own way tell Victoria that she can’t carry on acting like this, and what would Prim think of her? They all agree that she needs to sit down with Sarah and discuss the reasons and why Prim told her that her mother was dead.
Victoria goes over to Norway to see Sarah as she’s been living there for many years now. Hoping she’ll get all of the answers she’s looking for. Her time in Oslo is tiring, upsetting and very emotional. She doesn’t know how she feels one minute to the next it’s like she’s on a rollercoaster. Sarah says that she hopes one day they will be able to meet half way and build up a strong relationship.
We eventually jump 10 years into the future where life for Victoria has changed so much. I can’t tell you anymore about her future as I don’t want to spoil it for you. As this was my favourite part of the book.
Pages: 320, Publication Date: 7 July 2020. My Rating: 3 Stars
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The Light in the Hallway by Amanda Prowse
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From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes the moving story of a man whose life is changed in an instant. How do you start again when you lose the only love you’ve ever known?
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When Nick’s wife Kerry falls ill and dies, he realises for the first time how fragile his happiness has always been, and how much he’s been taking his good life and wonderful family for…
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📚#receptionlivresque 📚 Merci à @smarsanediteur pour l’envoi de leur nouveauté : « Et Pour Le Pire », d’Amanda Prowse, paru le 14/08 ❤️ Je vous reparlerai bien sûr plus longuement une fois cette lecture terminée. En attendant, voici la 4ème de couverture, qui est très alléchante : ◾️ « « Je vais rassembler tous les petits morceaux que tu as cassés, cachés dans les tiroirs, balayés sous le tapis, et je me reconstruirai. Je deviendrai ce que j’ai toujours voulu être. Je ne renoncerai pas aux rêves que tu t’es acharné à briser. » Kathryn Brooker, respectable épouse et mère de famille, vient d’assassiner son mari. Derrière la brutalité de ce meurtre, il y a le poids du silence. Pendant quinze ans, elle a subi des sévices physiques et psychologiques sans rien laisser paraître. Kathryn va payer cher cette dangereuse imposture : personne ne comprend son crime, car personne ne pouvait se douter du calvaire que son mari lui faisait vivre derrière les portes closes. Entre les explications qu’elle doit à ses enfants et son désir de venir en aide à d’autres femmes en détresse, Kathryn sait que le chemin vers la reconstruction sera long. Mais au bout de ce chemin, pour la première fois depuis bien longtemps, elle aura peut-être le droit d’être qui elle veut. Un roman poignant sur la violence conjugale et la reconstruction de soi. » ◾️ Un agréable dimanche à tous 😘 ◾️ #stephanemarsan #etpourlepire #amandaprowse #servicepresse #rentreelitteraire #lecture @stephanemarsan #bookstagram #livrestagram #book #bookaddict #livreaddict #roman #rentreelitteraire2019 #bouquin #bloglitteraire #bibliophile #romannoir #bibliotheque #bouquiner #pal #pilealire #livre #livraddict #instabook #instalivre #accroauxlivres #lectrice #litterature https://www.instagram.com/p/B2JsYftIecq/?igshid=1r71sibjk5l8v
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This is the first book I’ve ever read where I cried at the first chapters.
Hitch – Thomasina – is such a sad character as the story opens, taking happiness in the very small things in her life.
Over-protected by her parents, her life is kept small as her health, as a baby, was precarious, and he rparents hadn’t realised how strong, physically and mentally, she had become.
The story is both sad and also uplifting. It reminds us that happiness is in own hands and can be created from small beginnings.
As we see Thomasina grow in self-belief, we are shown possibilities. There is a strong underlying philosophy apparent in this story that is developed empathetically and subtly with great style.
One of the best quotes from the book is:
‘I know that words are powerful things and have great weight’.
