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Another You by Jane Cable - Blog Tour and my review - revisited When the publisher, Sapere books approached me to be part of the Blog Tour for Another you by Jane Cable, I was delighted to join in, especially as this is a book I'd already fallen in love with.  Another you is a delightful book which I originally reviewed in January 2017. It's now got a beautiful new cover and is reaching out to a new audience, so if you didn't catch it first time around I urge you to try it now, treat yourself! The Blurb Sometimes the hardest person to save is yourself… Marie Johnson fell in love with The Smugglers pub when she first moved to Dorset with her husband, Stephen. But when Stephen’s wandering eye caused the breakdown of their marriage, and the costs of running the pub started to mount, Marie felt her dreams crashing down around her. With local celebrations planned for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Marie is hopeful things will turn around. But she could never have predicted the ...

The Daughters of Ironbridge - Mollie Walton - My Review My thoughts: The Daughters of Ironbridge is an already well-known authors diversification into historical saga's under a new pseudonym and as expected she adapts to this style of writing extremely well.  This is women's fiction which will appeal to fans of authors such as Diney Costelloe and Katie Flynn, which explores aspects of friendship and life on both sides of the class division of the early 19th century The story begins when an uncommon friendship springs up between two young women from very different backgrounds. Working class Anny, daughter of an ironworker is thrown in the path of wealthy Margaret and surprisingly, against all odds the girls soon become staunch allies.  Despite their huge lifestyle differences the girls find a lot in common and soon decide to band together as a force to be reckoned with. Strong feisty women, a great historical setting in an inimitable location in Shropshire combine to make this ...

Today is publication day for the new historical novel by Deborah Carr - The Poppy Field and just look at that delectable cover! As my contribution to the blog tour to help celebrate todays launch of this exciting new title I have a question and answer session with the author for you. Q&A with Deborah J: Hi Deborah and Welcome to Beadyjans books. D: Thanks very much for hosting me and my new book, The Poppy Field published by HarperImpulse. Deborah Carr. J: Q1: Firstly can you tell me a bit about The Poppy Field and what inspired you to write it? D: The Poppy Field is a novel about two nurses, one a contemporary trauma unit nurse, Gemma Kingston, who is suffering from burn-out after a personal tragedy. She’s desperate to find a way to forget what’s happened and travels to a rundown farmhouse outside the town of Doullens to renovate it for her father. The other nurse, Alice Le Breton is a VAD working at a casualty clearing station near Doullens in the First World War. She is esc...

The Winter that made us by Kate Field: I am pleased to help introduce you to this new novel, in the genre of contemporary women's fiction. As part of the Blog Tour for this new book by Kate Field I am delighted to share with you the beautiful cover: Here's the blurb so you can discover what it's about: When Tess finds herself unexpectedly alone and back in Ribblemill, the childhood village she thought she’d escaped, she’s sure she can survive a temporary stay. She’s spent a lifetime making the best of things, hasn’t she? Determined to throw herself into village life, Tess starts a choir and gathers a team of volunteers to restore the walled garden at Ramblings, the local stately home. Everything could be perfect, if she weren’t sharing a cottage and a cat with a man whose manner is more prickly than the nettles she’s removing… As winter approaches, Tess finds herself putting down her own roots as fast as she’s pulling them up in the garden. But the ghosts of the past hover...

The Stolen marriage by Diane Chamberlain: I've read many of the books by this author and am never disappointed. The stolen marriage is just the perfect romantic read to curl up with. It take us back to the 1940s in Southern America, where we meet Tess DeMello an Italian American girl who has her life all mapped out, engaged to be married to the lover of her life boy next door Vincent, bound by their family ties, background and plans to work together in a medical practise as he is a fledgling doctor and she a trainee nurse. But Vincent is called away to work in far away Chicago where he is needed to help treat victims of the outbreak of polio. Tess's best friend Gina tries to take her mind off his absence and stop her moping and the 2 girls head off for the bright lights of Washington, where Gina's aunt owns a staid and well chaperoned boarding house, for a girly weekend together. But Gina is a tad more flighty than Tess and the girls plans go badly awry and end up changing ...

I'm thrilled to be second up on the blog tour for the WONDERFUL new book The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull as I'm not sure I can keep my big mouth shut any longer about quite how ownderful I found this story. Wow The Wild Air blew me away (or maybe I should say FLEW me away) The Blurb .....  A heart-warming, exhilarating novel about one young woman's determination to follow her dreams of becoming a pilot in the early 20th century. In Edwardian England, aeroplanes are a new, magical invention, while female pilots are rare indeed. When shy Della Dobbs meets her mother's aunt, her life changes forever. Great Auntie Betty has come home from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, across whose windswept dunes the Wright Brothers tested their historic flying machines. Della develops a burning ambition to fly and Betty is determined to help her. But the Great War is coming and it threatens to destroy everything - and everyone - Della loves. Uplifting and page-turning, THE WILD AIR is a stor...

My Review Everything but the truth is about relationships and secrets a taut Domestic Noir thriller/ romance. Rachel and Jack are like any young couple, they are very much of the Social media generation, they haven't been together long enough to really deeply know each other inside out, but what they do know is they are in love, they are in it for the long haul, which is just as well as Rachel is expecting Jacks baby. Perhaps they should have waited a while, but Things are what they are and they both very much want this baby, after all they have the rest of their lives to get to know the little quirks of each others lives. But although Rachel is certain that Jacks the man for her to spend the rest of her life with, a judder of deja vu runs through her when, following a glimpse of an email he tries to conceal, she suddenly begins to suspect he may be hiding something from her, after all this has happened to her recently in a previous relationship which crashed when she had cause to ...

Blog tour and Book Giveaway Before the Rains – Dinah Jefferies It would be hard to find a more richly descriptive and lavishly depicted book than Before the Rains. Every page bursts with opulent, evocative imagery, colour and vibrancy, including the beautiful cover and it is astonishingly, heart-warmingly, romantic. Dinah Jefferies is rapidly becoming my go-to author for vivid, plausible escapism. With her words she paints stunning exotic landscapes of epic proportions, which immerse the reader in past cultures, gently educating us about historic events, breaking our hearts a little, before wrapping us in the warmth of a passionate relationship. In Before the Rains, I was transported to India in the 1930s in the final days of the crumbling British Raj and instantly immersed in the spice laden, colourful, Indian culture, where I met Eliza, a recently widowed British woman of 28. Wanting to carve out her name as a photographer she accepts a position, through the British Government, to wo...

Quick catch up and links to a couple of great book giveaways I feel as though I've abandoned my blog - because all the books I've read this month are for blog tours which aren't happening yet! So just to keep everyone updated I've rounded up a few of the great #book #Giveaways around at the moment (and there are some wonderful titles available) who doesn't love the thrill of winning and a lovely new #free #book arriving? While you visit these great book blogs stay and have a read, you'll find some wonderful reviews and recommendations of the best new books around. Visit Lindasbookbag  for the chance to win a copy of Something Missing by Glenice Whitting. A book about two very different women in 2 countries whose lives entwine. Linda tells me she is hosting more giveaways in the near future so why not follow her book blog? On Beinganne  you'll find a giveaway for Through the Barricades by Denise Deegan a romantic World war One novel by a talented author.