by lauralizbuckley | 28 Sep, 2019 | Book Reviews
If you discovered a secret that could tear your family apart, what would you do? What if keeping the secret could cause as much pain as revealing it? This is the choice Cecilia is faced with when she opens a letter from her husband labelled to be opened only in the...
by lauralizbuckley | 24 Sep, 2019 | Writing
A little while ago I wrote about the dangers of head-hopping in writing, and mentioned that it’s a technique (or, depending on how you look at it, a mistake) often confused with use of a third-person omniscient narrator. Which kind of begs the question: what is the...
by lauralizbuckley | 21 Sep, 2019 | Book Reviews
Tom Sherbourne and his wife, Izzy, have very different outlooks and attitudes. It’s one of the things that drew them together, each attracted to the mystery of the other. When a boat washes up on the shore of their remote lighthouse island, carrying only a dead man...
by lauralizbuckley | 17 Sep, 2019 | Blog Posts
I’ve been eating almost entirely vegetarian for a few months now, and haven’t prepared a single meat-containing meal at home in almost half a year. I wouldn’t call myself by any means an expert in vegetarian cooking – I’m a decidedly average cook by all accounts – so...
by lauralizbuckley | 14 Sep, 2019 | Book Reviews
There’s a dark force lurking beneath the surface of Sarum Vale. When a young girl is found pregnant and bleeding in the woods, it is the beginning of a series of dark events which will force teenager Jamie Harper to make some difficult choices in order to protect...
