Home, Family and Friends

Spent some time with our family over Easter. Spent some fun days walking along the beach at Lennox Head, having picnics and having fun with granddaughters.

Finished reading a mystery thriller Our House by Louise Candish This novel was set in London in 2017. Fiona Lawson arrives home early after a weekend away and finds strangers moving into her house. The contents and personal items have vanished. Her husband Bram is not answering his phone and she does not know where her children are. What a nightmare.

The story switches between Fiona and Bram telling their versions of events during 2016 leading up to the nightmare. Fiona’s neighbor, Merle arrives and helps Fiona work through the issues of identity theft and reporting Bram a missing person. Full of twists and turns and an unexpected ending.

I was really busy all of April 2018 the weeks went fast no time to write about what I was reading. Another book about families I enjoyed reading Miss Mary's Book of Dreams by Sohi Nicholls - 

this was a story about a young woman, Ella who runs a book shop and also writes novels. The story is set in New York. Bryony visits Ella’s shop and buys a special book. Ella and Bryony help each other with encouragement and stories from Ella’s mother and grandmother.

This book is about magic, dreams, families and relationships.

Also finished reading The House at Sunset Lake by Tasmina Perry - 

two young people meet one summer. They fall in love but go their separate ways. Twenty years later they meet again. Old memories and secrets will be revealed.

This was a story about an old plantation mansion, and the family who lived in it and their secrets. It is about writers, musicians and property developers. It is set in the present time and also twenty years earlier, Jim and Jennifer meet one summer but are destined to live different lives, twenty years later they are drawn together again at Jennifer’s families summer house where the ghosts of the past are revealed.