by lauralizbuckley | 8 Oct, 2019 | Blog Posts
This time last week I was flying home from Kuala Lumpur, the final stop on our epic Honeymoon adventure. I’ve been fortunate enough to do quite a bit of travelling with my family before I left home, but this was definitely the most involved trip I had ever taken....
by lauralizbuckley | 5 Oct, 2019 | Book Reviews
Sometimes you meet somebody and you know, within moments, that this person is meant to be in your life. The connection is just instant, and perfect, and in next to no time you can’t imagine your life without them. That’s how Jack King feels when he meets Kate, and...
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...