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Enjoyed reading these poems
I very much enjoyed reading this volume of Sue’s McFarlane's poetry. She outlines in the introduction her reasons and motivations for writing it, alluding to the year 2020 as a one of profound change, reflection and catharsis. We read how she discovered her creative side and she has deployed this to considerable effect. Sue invites us to think of the volume as a chocolate box and this is apt - the contents are all worth a taste but we are bound, as she says, to have a few fav


Home is where Evelyn is
Evelyn is a widower who no longer wants to be bystander in life. Though she loved her husband, George, dearly, was she ever her own woman? Wanting to live whatever life she has left in the beautiful setting of a book she read many years ago, she cashes in her savings, hands the keys to her home to her son Tim and heads off for her own adventure. Evelyn is a wonderfully normal and warm character, who endears anyone who crosses her path including grumbly old Jane. These two unl


quite an emotional read
Chasing a Dream is a historical fiction book set in 1950 in a small mining village in Derbyshire. We are introduced to Stella, who has a...
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