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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

The Secrets of Latimer House by Jules Wake

"Friendship improves happiness and abates grief by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero 

The Secrets of Latimer House will have you weeping with grief, joy, laughing through the darkness, and calling your best friends to tell them you love them. With all the things the universe is tossing at you right now, this novel will remind you to find the beauty in living. 

"What shall we make a toast to?          To tomorrow, because today is done." 

Buy it today!


In the war against Hitler every secret counts…

Society heiress Evelyn Brooke-Edwards is a skilled interrogator – her beauty making her a non-threat in the eyes of the prisoners.

Farm girl Betty Connors may not be able to type as she claimed, but her crack analytical skills soon find her unearthing covert connections.

German ex-pat Judith Stern never expected to find herself listening in to German POW’s whispered conversations, but the Nazis took her father from her so she will do whatever it takes to help the Allies end this war.

Billeted together in the attic of Latimer House – a place where secrets abound – Evelyn, Betty and Judith soon form a bond of friendship that carries them through the war. Because nothing is stronger than women united.

Tucked away in the Buckinghamshire countryside, Latimer House, a grand country estate, stands proudly – a witness to some of greatest secrets of WW2.

Used by the SOE to hold Nazi prisoners of war, this stunning historical novel is inspired by the untold story of the secret listeners of ‘M Room’ who worked day and night to help the Allies win the war.  Burrowes.

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Hemingway's Daughter by Christine M. Whitehead

I have been an ardent admirer of Ernest Hemingway and everything related to his life, having made the trip to his home in Key West, as well as his haunts in Spain, and have Cuba on my bucket list. If you have ever fancied yourself to be one of Hemingway's Daughters and wished to have known him as Papa, you simply must read this! I felt I had missed a secret manuscript and frantically searched for "A Single Drop of Red Wine" and then realized that I must implore Ms. Christine M. Whitehead to write a sequel to this so titled. Please, madame, give me that love story!





Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she’s been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when RBG is being told to type and when a man who is 500th in his law school class is hired over a woman who is first in hers. She yearns to find true love when the family curse dictates that love always ends for the Hemingways and usually it ends badly. And finally, she’d give up the first two dreams if she were able to snag the third. She longs to have an impact on the only thing that matters to her father: his writing. To accomplish that would require a miracle. All three dreams are almost impossible, but it’s the “almost” that keeps Finn going.

Hemingway had three sons but ached for a daughter.

This is her story.