Blogs in January 1970

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted 1st January 1970

‘Every good love story has another love hiding within it’ Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier...

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This is Life 1st January 1970

Dan Rhodes’s new novel opens with a determined art student, Aurélie Renard, throwing a stone in a crowded Paris neighbourhood in a bid to kick-start her next creative project. She had been planning to produce a straightforward series of...

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A Stone’s Throw 1st January 1970

A multi-layered story of three generations of one family and is set in England and Kenya during and after the Second World War. Meg Brya is sailing to Kenya to be with her fiance. On the boat ride out...

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The House of Dust and Dreams 1st January 1970

Greece 1936. A young British diplomat and his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited and unconventional wife, Evadne, finds it hard to fit in with the whirl of endless parties and...

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One Kiss in Havana 1st January 1970

Emma, Louise and Sophie are sisters. Talented, artistic and creative, they have a lot in common especially when it comes to men. When Emma receives two tickets to Cuba in the post from her late husband she is more...

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