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November 30, 2023

REVIEW: Yet Love Remains by Mary Burchell

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1970s / angsty / co-respondent / divorce / England / female friendship / Historical / second chance at love8 Comments

To fall for Charles is the last thing Helen expected … but will her lies cost her the love of her life? England, 1970s When Helen Debenham agrees to help her friend Sylvia out of her unhappy marriage to the famous playwright Charles Lane, the last thing she expects is ... more >

August 30, 2023

REVIEW: The Husband Criteria (The Lorings Book 3) by Catherine Kullmann

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1810s / family relationships / female friendship / Historical / London / Regency / trad regency4 Comments

How can they discover the private man behind the public façade? London 1817 The primary aim of every young lady embarking on the Spring frenzy that is the Season must be to make a good match. Or must it? And what is a good match? For cousins Cynthia, Chloe and ... more >

August 8, 2023

REVIEW: Mrs. Porter Calling by A. J. Pearce

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / female friendship / First-Person / Friends / Historical / Historical fiction / journalism / journalist / London / The Emmy Lake Chronicles / War / Military / World War II4 Comments

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London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of “Yours Cheerfully,” the hugely popular advice column in Woman’s Friend magazine. Cheered on by her best friend Bunty, Emmy is dedicated to helping ... more >

August 3, 2023

REVIEW: The Baron and the Lady Chemist by Alissa Baxter

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbusinessman / chemistry / class differences / English Historical / female friendship / Historical / London / PTSD / Regency / Regency England2 Comments

Their chemistry creates a chain reaction . . . but will love be the final result? Dorothea Grantham has always been fascinated by chemistry and spends most days conducting experiments in her laboratory at Grantham Place, staining silk with gold, silver, and other metals using chemical processes. Thea embroiders the ... more >

July 25, 2023

REVIEW: The Lady from Burma : A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery by Allison Montclair

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / Agent/Spies/Undercover / female friendship / Historical / London / mental health / murder / murder mystery / Post WWII / self discovery17 Comments

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Murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-WWII London. In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture – The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are ... more >

June 16, 2023

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbullying / Canada / Dual Timelines / enemies to lovers / family relationships / female friendship / grumpy / sunshine / hijabi / immigrant fiction / Muslim / POC / POC author / second chance at love / South-Asian / South-Asian Canadian / TorontoNo Comments

Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a far cry from ... more >

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