Book after Book

Today I am extremely happy to participate in the blog tour for The Daughter in Law by Nina Manning and to be able to share with a Q&A with the author herself… Hi Nina! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of The Daughter in Law ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Thank you very much! The book is firstly about the relationship between a mother and her son and the hostility Annie shows towards Bens new wife, Daisy. But Annie is also afraid to let her son go and has raised Ben to be fearful of the world. The mother in law/daughter in law theme is a universal one and something many wives experience when they meet their mother in law’s for the first time. But there are more reasons why Annie is so reluctant to let her son go. And when Annie and Daisy find themselves alone in Annie’s remote beach house for several months, is when the two women learn more about each other and the lengths a mother will go to, to protect her child. ...

Welcome to my date on the blog tour for Shari Low ’s My One Month Marriage , where I am lucky to be able to share a Q&A with the author of this delightful new novel! Hi Shari! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of My One Month Marriage ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: The book opens a month after Zoe’s marriage, and she’s plonked in the midst of a pile of wedding gifts that need to be returned. Her husband is gone, kicked out after Zoe discovered he’d spent the night with someone else. Thankfully, her three sisters – Marina, Verity and Yvie – have all arrived bearing food and neon pink cocktails to cheer her up. But the comfort is short lived. While they’re dissecting her marital woes, Zoe gets a call that gives her a clue as to who husband cheated with. And to her horror, it seems that it might be one of the three women sitting in front of her.  Did you have the plot entirely figured out when you started writing the bo...

Welcome to the blog tour for Nina Manning ’s latest novel, Her Darkest Fear . I am particularly happy to be part of this tour as I’ve already had the pleasure of having Nina on my blog last year, when she answered my nosy questions on her debut novel, The Daughter In Law , and on reading and writing in general. If you missed that, I’d definitely recommend that you catch up here . Anyway, let’s not forget why we’re here today! Here’s what I thought of Her Darkest Fear … Synopsis: Frankie Keegan is struggling. While she tries to make strides in her career, life at home is slowly unravelling as she is haunted by the secrets of her past. As the dark nights draw in, the anniversary of the loss of her brother looms and Frankie is drawn back to the memories of that fateful night 20 years previously. As she descends into a guilt-ridden state, she begins to suspect that someone else is also remembering that night and they are determined to terrify her... Can she confront her past bef...