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March 4, 2024

REVIEW: The Land Girl on Lily Road by Jillianne Hamilton

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / England / Farmer / Historical / homefront / Rural Romance / rural setting / Women's Land Army / World War II6 Comments

Expecting a relaxing getaway at her family’s summer estate, pampered socialite Elsie Foster-Quinn signs up for the Women’s Land Army. When she ends up at a Somerset dairy farm instead, Elsie immediately butts heads with the grumpy farmer she now works for. Being a land girl in a small town ... more >

January 25, 2024

REVIEW: When the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / Civil-War / family relationships / Historical / Historical fiction / North-Carolina / rural setting / War / MilitaryComments Off on REVIEW: When the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart

For readers of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles, an evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her convictions whole during the most devastating and divisive period in ... more >

November 15, 2023

REVIEW: Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1970s / Alabama / alcoholism / bullying / country music / dysfunctional family / pregnancy / rural setting / second chances / singer / Small-Town / teenager7 Comments

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Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he’s loved telling him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with ... more >

February 10, 2023

REVIEW: The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsfish-out-of-water / France / needlework / older woman / rural setting / self discovery / sisters / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life. A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in ... more >

April 2, 2021

REVIEW: The Frenchman and the Lady: (Enter: Mrs. Belchamber ) by Elizabeth Cadell

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / England / family relationships / older woman / rural setting7 Comments

Mrs. Belchamber was not invited but Mrs. Belchamber came to stay. The changes she introduced into Scotty’s topsy-turvy Kentish farmhouse were past belief. But though Christopher could not help feeling some concern that he had landed on his friend a woman of character as well as three lively French children, ... more >

June 1, 2020

REVIEW: A Power to Charm by Frances Murray

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Paranormal lite / politics / rural setting / slice of village life / Spain / village / WitchesComments Off on REVIEW: A Power to Charm by Frances Murray

This is a light-hearted story set in an Andalucian hill-village. Agnes, a mathematics teacher with some curious and useful abilities takes a holiday in Spain and meets a breeder of horses who asks her to marry him. She abandons her job and her father and the UK and comes to ... more >

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