Book-Mad-Mum

Call Me Mummy by Tina Baker published by Viper   “Mummy” has everything – a nice home and money in the bank, however she doesn’t have child of her own. When she is out shopping one day, so notices Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop and the temptation to give the child a better upbringing is too good to resist and so she walks out of the shop with little Tonya. However, feisty Tonya    is not the daughter that “Mummy” was hoping for. As Tonya fiercely resists Mummy's attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a 'scummy mummy', who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the media's rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her. Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle. This is a ver

Second Chances In Chianti by T. A Williams published by Canelo Alice Butler starred in a successful US sitcom as flirty Polly, a role that followed her even when the show was cancelled. Seeing it as a chance for a second career, Alice returned to Bristol to study for her dream job as an Art Historian, but five years later she gets a call saying that the sitcom might be revived. With all the bickering and backstabbing that went on before, surely it could only end in disaster? The meeting and reunion of the cast takes place in a villa in the Chianti region of Tuscany and Alice has two decisions to make…does she continue with her relationship with boyfriend David, and does she sign up for the sitcom again? Throw into the mix,   Mysterious Matt who lives in a Tower next to the villa which just adds to Alice’s list of decisions! TA Williams writes captivating, believable stories and by the end of them I always want to add the locations of his books to my list of places to visit and after