Jennifer Page's Blog
May 6, 2024
Book Review: The French Cookery School
The Blurb
Mix together a group of mature students:
A culinary Sloane, a take-away cook and a food journalist.
Add in:
A handsome host
Season with:
A celebrity chef
Bring to the boil:
At a luxurious cookery school in France!
Waltho Williams has no idea what he’s letting himself in for when he opens the doors of La Maison du Paradis, his beautiful French home. But with dwindling funds, a cookery school seems like the ideal business plan.
Running away from an impending...
April 22, 2024
Author Interview: Katherine Mezzacappa
A couple of years ago, when I was a wannabe author dreaming of landing a book deal and becoming a published author, I ‘met’ Katherine Mezzacappa in a Facebook group and she very kindly offered me advice and encouragement.
So I’m very excited to be interviewing her today about her new novel,The Maiden of Florence. I know it’s based on a true story. How did you come across it?
I’d accompanied my son to a meeting with a therapist who was trying to get him to engage with high school, only w...
April 8, 2024
Book review: The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up
The Blurb
When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested.
He’s the reason she’s in here. She knows it. She remembers what he did. Clearly as anything.
But there are things Shelley has forgotten too, including parts of her childhood. And as those start to come back to her, so do other memories. Ones with the power to change everything.
But can she trust these new memories, or what anyone around her is telling her?...
March 13, 2024
Book Review: Lean on Me
The Blurb
Faith tries on her future mother-in-law’s wedding dress in preparation for her own wedding, her tears are not of joy. The hideous frock is nicknamed ‘The Ghost Web’ by Faith’s best friend Marilyn, who can’t understand why Faith would even consider wearing it. But there’s a lot Marilyn doesn’t know about Faith – not the least of which is that Faith is just the latest of the names she has called herself.
Faith and her brother Sam survived a traumatic childhood which included having...
February 16, 2024
Book Review: The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright
The Blurb
When mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and into an unloved and unkempt cottage, she can’t help but feel demoralised. Faced with months of DIY and dust, her children Jacob and Olivia aren’t impressed either. But when Beth finds a box of letters while she’s clearing out the children’s room, things start to look up.
The correspondence is decades old, between agony aunt Evelyn and those in need of solace. Intrigued as to why the letters have been kept safe all the...
January 27, 2024
Book Review: Coffee and Cake at Wildflower Lock
The Blurb
Daisy May is embarking on a new chapter of her life as a permanent resident at the idyllic Wildflower Lock. Determined to seize this second chance she’s been granted, Daisy is putting her all into making her new business venture a success. As her friendship with Theo grows ever stronger, her happily ever after seems within reach.
However, life isn’t always smooth sailing. When a string of unfortunate mishaps and an unruly stag party leaves Daisy’s finances in dire straits, she st...
January 20, 2024
Book Review: A Breath of Fresh Air
The Blurb
Rosie feels like there’s something missing in her life. She loves her job as
the manager of Willowdale Hall Riding Stables, caring for the horses and
teaching children to ride, and she loves the home she shares with her mother in
the beautiful Lake District. But she can’t help wondering how her life might
look if things had been different. What if her father had been around to help
care for her mother? And what if she’d found someone special herself?
When Hubert Cranleigh – the owner...
January 9, 2024
Book Review: One Year After You
The Blurb
For forty years the fabulous Odette Devine has been a beloved matriarchal actress on Scotland’s longest-running TV show.
Today she is broken, betrayed, and desperate to find out if this is her payback for a lie she told forty years ago.
A year ago today, Tress Walker’s husband was killed in a car accident, on the same day she gave birth to their baby. Reeling from the discovery that he was with his mistress, Tress has to choose whether to protect her fragile heart or open it ...
September 23, 2023
Book review: Christmas at the Cat Cafe
The Blurb
It’s the most wonderful time of the year on Castle Street, and there’s a paw-some new business opening…
It had always been Tabby’s dream to work with cats and an inheritance from her beloved nanna has finally made that a reality. Idyllic Castle Street in Whitsborough Bay couldn’t be a better place for pastry chef Tabby to open a cat café with her boyfriend, Leon.
But when Leon leaves her in the lurch, the pressure mounts for Tabby. With Christmas fast approaching, she has to o...
September 1, 2023
Book Review: The Gingerbread Christmas Village
The Blurb
The annual Wheaton gingerbread exhibit (a model village made of gingerbread) and grotto has been an important part of the sleepy Cotswold hamlet’s Christmas celebrations for decades, drawing visitors from across the region. Every year the model town grew more elaborate and ambitious but recently, interest has been dwindling. The gingerbread grotto needs to be rehomed or close forever.
Sixty-four-year-old Margi, the event’s founder, has had enough of village life (and its total la...
