Tishylou's World

Hello you beautiful people! It's that time of the year again, time to round up the books I have read in 2018 and tell you which ones made my list. I love and hate this in equal measure. I love looking back on my reads from the year but I hate feeling like I left off a book that I loved or missed a hidden gem. I worked long and hard on this list and I feel really good about it this year. I have read 53 out of the 45 books I had hoped to read this year, so I'm pretty pleased with that. So, here we go! Best Character In A Series: DI Natalie Ward written by Carol Wyer Best Debut: The Lido by Libby Page Best Memoir: I have a tie here between Eat. Drink, Run by Bryony Gordon    AND  Born In The Bed You Were Made by Brooklyn James Children's/YA Book: We Are Young by Cat Clarke Most Surprising Book: I Flipping Love You by Helena Hunting. I don't normally read New Age or Romantic books, but I went to school with the author and was excited to try one of her book...

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Woman Who Kept Everything by Jane Gilley What They Say: The Lady in the Van meets The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in this uplifting, funny and moving debut novel about a 79-year-old hoarder who is convinced the world is against her. 79-year-old Gloria Frensham is a hoarder. She lives amongst piles of magazines, squashed cardboard boxes, surplus carpet rolls, heaps of towels and knick-knacks littering the stairs. She hasn’t left her home for years, until a loud bang and a sudden smell of singeing sets in motion Gloria’s unwilling exodus from her home… That day is the start of a journey that will never return Gloria back to her beloved, hoarded possessions, nor to her son’s house to live. For it is the start of her journey to discover life again – and she’s going to make some good friends and defiant decisions along the way, with just one very small suitcase in tow… Heart-warming and poignant in equa...

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer! What They Say: Charlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of mother  Charlotte Brannon  is discovered by her husband  Adam , in their bedroom,  Detective Natalie Ward  is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: The word  ‘Why? ’ written on the wall in blood.  As Natalie begins to delve deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers that Adam has a dark past he’s been hiding and she’s sure that the Brannon’s teenage babysitter Inge has secrets of her own. Then another mother is murdered on her doorstep in front of her young son, the word  ‘why’  scrawled on the wall next to her.  All the key suspects have alibis and with her own marriage hanging by a thread, Natalie is struggling to stay focused on cracking her toughest case yet. When a young woman and her baby disappear, a member of Natalie’s own team is put in terrible...