Lindsey's Literary Leanings

One Night In Italy by Lucy Diamond Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Mystery/Romance Three women embark on very different journeys of self discovery (with one common interest), after each experiencing what turn out to be life changing events.... Sophie has spent 5 years travelling to different places, taking on different jobs & meeting lots of different people, most recently living & working in Sorrento, Italy. She now finds herself back in Sheffield having received a phone call from her cousin, informing her that her Dad has been taken ill. Before long, & despite her protestations, she is back living with her parents & in her childhood bedroom wondering if she will ever get to travel again. Her mother, wanting Sophie to stay, even finds her a job teaching Italian at the local college, but can her parents betrayal, & the reason for her leaving all those years ago ever be put behind them?.... Anna is a journalist, working for her local paper, The Herald, & dati...

  Paris For One By Jojo Moyes Genre: Short stories/Contemporary Fiction/Romance/Humour When I saw this book, I was under the impression that this compendium of eleven short stories might be extracts left out of Jojo Moyes novels, like deleted scenes from a movie. For instance, in the title story, I thought it may have been about Louisa Clarke's (of the Lou trilogies) time she spent travelling, between Will's untimely demise & her returning to England to settle in London. However, story 7, Honeymoon in Paris does revisit The Girl You Left Behind (my favourite book of Jojo's other than the LT's), which was a real treat for me as I love Liv, Sophie & Edouard. All the stories except this one & the first, were like extracts from books making it difficult to invest in the characters, some I struggled to see the point of & others were worthy of being part of a book. Overall, I just felt that the author & publishers missed a trick in not making this bo...