Showing posts with label 'When I Fall in Love'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'When I Fall in Love'. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Perfect Book for Valentine's Day - When I Fall in Love by Miranda Dickinson

If you're looking for a perfect book to read to celebrate Valentine's Day, here it is!
When I Fall in Love by Miranda Dickinson is a wonderful story set in Brighton and the romantic city of Paris. Elsie's husband, Lucas, has died leaving her to complete the list of crazy things they meant to do, but never had time. Drawing on her own experiences of singing, Miranda makes Elsie set up a choir with hilarious results when she recruits Woody, an old rocker, to help her. The love interest is the dependable Olly or could it be Torin who annoys Elsie no end? But at the same time she has to wrestle with her feelings. Can she let go of her memories of Lucas and move on?
Miranda has a fabulous website where you can hear her read a passage from this book when the choir give their first performance.
Which is your favourite book for Valentine's Day?


Thursday, 31 January 2013

Books on my shelf waiting to be read in 2013!

It's so easy to buy books from Amazon or just in Sainsbury's, and I have now got four paperbacks that are waiting to be read, not to mention the others on my Kindle!
Firstly, Happily Ever After by Harriet Evans. I met Harriet one year at The London Book Fair, and have since enjoyed all her books, so I was pleased to see this one. It's about a girl called Eleanor Bee who doesn't believe in love. Well, I hope that with this title, everything turns out all right in the end!
Next, When I Fall in Love by Miranda Dickinson. I have loved all her books since I read her first,  Fairytale of New York. In the latest, in contrast to Harriet Evans' novel, Elsie's happily ever after is taken away from her and she has to build a whole new life, and see if she's ready to fall in love again. Oh, I can hear Nat King Cole singing the song now!
The third book is The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern, which reminds me of the song from Dirty Dancing! Cecelia is another favourite writer of mine, and you may remember that I read The Gift again this Christmas. According to a friend, if I liked that, I would like this one too, as it's about busy Lucy Silchester who's life's in a rut,  being helped by a 'kindly, rather run-down man in an old suit', rather than a businessman being helped by an angel.
My last choice is Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes.  It's a shame that it's not avaiable on Kindle, but I got mine for a amazing £2.99 from Sainsbury's, only 33% of the recommended retail price! It is actually her first novel, which has been brought out to, I expect, satisfy the demand for her books, and I, for one am looking forward to reading it!
What books have you got waiting to be read?