Tink's Book Reviews

The Day We Disappeared by Lucy Robinson  Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either.  Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it?  Annie Mulholland is not like your average girl. She has a troubled past, that she has fought long and hard with and nothing will get in the way of her remembering it.  Throughout the years Annie slowly but surely starts to learn how to live life like everyone else, though not without some bumps along the way. Being in Le Cloob has helped over the years, what with her sex obsessed sister Lizzy, her gracious yet obnoxious french friend Claudine, and of course her slightly insane  friend Tim. She feels like she can take on anything, apart from men.   Until the beautiful and charismatic Stephen Flint shows up one evening in the massage room and her world is slowly turned upside down. He has it all...

The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me by Lucy Robinson Sally is an incredible singer but she sings only in her wardrobe where nobody can hear her. She'd rather join a nudist colony than sing in public. That is until she ventures to New York where a wild and heady summer of love and loss changes her forever. No longer able to hide in the shadows, Sally must return home to London to fulfil a promise she cannot break - to share her voice. But just as she's about to embark on her new life, a beautiful man turns up on Sally's doorstep bearing a sheepish smile and a mysterious hand-written message. Sally Howlett has a secret, a secret she has kept since she was a young girl. She loves to sing, and not just any singing. Opera singing, and she's been singing ever since she was seven. Something that her mother and father really don't want to be doing, since a tragic death in their family.  Since then Sally has been sworn to secrecy by her parents that she will neve...

The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson It's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael's old socks. In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran's friends force a very different plan on her and it's nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly make her feel better? But eventually she agrees. And so begins the greatest love story of all time . . . What do you do when you're having the time of your life on y...

A Passionate Love Affair With a Total Stranger by Lucy Robinson Charley Lambert has worked hard at creating a perfect life. She has an aspirational flat, a job of international significance and a very good pair of legs, thanks to a rigorous health and fitness regime. Best of all, her boss has asked her out after seven years' hard flirting and a covert fumble in a mop cupboard. Then she breaks her leg in three places, watches her boss propose to someone else and - horror - is forced to hand over her job to her nasty deputy. Charley, a certified workaholic, fears that she will go mad. Dangerously bored, she starts helping people who are talentless at internet dating. Then William arrives in her inbox and rocks her world. Helpless, she watches herself fall in love with him and discovers she's not who she thought she was. But can she turn her back on her old life - all for a total stranger? Charlotte Lambert is a workaholic, she aims and thrives achievement in h...