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December 18, 2024

REVIEW: A Christmas Secret (Schubert Book 2) by Kirsty Ferry

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscats / Christmas / Contemporary / holiday novella / novella / Scotland2 Comments

A heart-warming fun read from Kirsty Ferry, perfect for cat lovers. What if a secret from Christmas past was stopping you from moving on to Christmas future? When Hugo McCreadie steps into Isla Brodie’s pet portrait studio to get a ‘Festive Furball Photo Shoot’ for his sister’s cat Schubert, he ... more >

November 22, 2024

REVIEW: Susan Settles Down by Molly Clavering

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / brothers and sisters / fish-out-of-water / Historical / Scotland2 Comments

“Don’t, please, write and tell me that we’re mad. I know it already; and even if I didn’t, every friend we possess has pointed it out. My spirit is quailing at the prospect of life at Easter Hartrigg, because I know what pitiful figures we shall cut as landowners in ... more >

April 3, 2024

REVIEW: Dear Hugo by Molly Clavering

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / epistolary / Historical / Scotland / slice of village life / Small-Town / Womens-Fiction6 Comments

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“When the time comes for you to retire, Hugo, if you want a quiet life, don’t settle down in the country. Bury yourself in London or any really large city, and you can live like a hermit, but avoid the outskirts of a village. I am dazed by the ceaseless ... more >

January 9, 2024

REVIEW: The Island Cottage by Jane Lovering

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / First-Person / fish-out-of-water / Magical Realism / Orkney / Scotland / witch5 Comments

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When Brid Harcus is sent to the Orkney Islands, in the far reaches of Scotland, she has high hopes for her trip being short, straightforward and lucrative. Her mother has inherited a cottage from her Great Aunt Jennet which has been unlived in and unloved for decades, and the time ... more >

November 6, 2023

REVIEW: Cassandra by Chance by Betty Neels

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsdisabled character / disabled hero / doctor hero / Netherlands / nurse / Scotland15 Comments

He needed her as a nurse, not a woman Benedict van Manfeld was one of the surliest, most unfriendly men Cassandra had ever met. But when she learned he was a brilliant Dutch surgeon who had severely damaged his sight in an accident, her attitude changed. Benedict asked Cassandra to ... more >

October 17, 2023

REVIEW: Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews1920s / Historical / Historical fiction / post WWI / Scotland / self discovery / social change / spirit guides / spiritualism / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam

In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she’s always expected—until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead. The couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement—a religious society of mediums and psychics that emerged following the ... more >

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