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Originally released in 2004, it has been reissued and is now available as an ebook or in audio. Susan Wiggs started out writing historical romances and has since moved into a stellar career writing women's fiction, but The Ocean Between Us was a surprise to me. Mary Jo here, talking about The Ocean Between Us by Susan Wiggs. I can promise that they find a new kind of light at the end of their week of togetherness, so it’s well worth diving into for your escapism addiction. We root them on as they grope about in their darkness. The reader is dragged into their mixed-up lives and really needs to know how all these good, but confused, people fix themselves or each other. Make no mistake about it, this is a deliberately literary novel, so you won’t get your fun and games happy ending, but the writing is positively compelling. He had been given up for adoption and is now searching for his birth parents. Into this suffocating atmosphere drops Jesse, an American son fathered by Andrew while he was in a war zone. Phoebe is the younger sister with no purpose other than getting married.

Emma, his wife, gave up her dreams to be a mother and has buried herself in tradition. Andrew, her father, was a journalist who once thought he could save the world. Olivia is the no-nonsense doctor out to save the world. So her family quarantines with her in their stately old, crumbling manor in Norfolk. The basic story here is that Olivia Birch has been treating some kind of plague in Africa and when she comes home for Christmas, she has to quarantine for a week. Pat Rice tells us about: SEVEN DAYS OF US by Francesca Hornak.

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This is only the first novella in a series of three and I can’t wait for the other two! I absolutely loved the chemistry between these two and watching the romance develop. But everything is not as it seems, and slowly but surely they begin to find common ground. They try to co-exist as house owners, but drive each other nuts. At first glance he is everything she hates – a corporate lawyer working for a company that has no regard for the environment whatsoever. She’s just been left a half share in a house by her former mentor, but she hadn’t reckoned with having to share it with the woman’s nephew Liam. The heroine Mara is an environmental engineer and extremely brilliant at what she does, but she’s fighting against sexism and prejudice in her workplace. I also very much enjoyed Under One Roof, a novella by Ali Hazelwood which she calls “STEMist”. This is definitely the perfect summer story! (If the links above don't work for you, try this one.) I fell head over heels in love with him – how can you not love a man as determined as he is to do the right thing for his very sensitive 8-year old daughter, while at the same time being the perfect boyfriend? Kat has to decide whether she dares to take a chance and believe that he is every bit as great as he seems, and I was rooting for this couple all the way. He has his own problems to contend with, but instead of charging in like a bull in a china shop, he stops to consider the best way of solving them. Then the hero Noah arrives on the scene and he seems almost too good to be true. A child of divorced parents, she has lots of emotional baggage, but for the most part, she manages to ignore it. She’s independent and capable, but with a positive outlook on life, and she never complains even when things go decidedly pear-shaped. The reader can’t help but empathise with the hard-working heroine Kat from the start. This story is an absolute delight and exactly what I needed right now to sweep me away from real life! It’s a wonderful tale of learning to trust, the importance of being open and honest with everyone, and the healing power of love. My favourite read this month was Sue Moorcroft’s latest novel Summer at the French Café.

Anne here, and it's that time again, where we share the books we've read and enjoyed in the last month.