2012: #20 – Ninepins (Rosy Thornton)

Title: Ninepins Author: Rosy Thornton Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 320 (2012 total – 4,969) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,374,983) Release Date: April 16, 2012 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd Categories: general fiction, women’s fiction Source: ARC from author Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the

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2010: #94 – The Tapestry of Love (Rosy Thornton)

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbors, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that’s before the arrival of Catherine’s sister, Bryony.

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