Review: Cherokee Summer - Susan Antony - January 2019 Cherokee Summer tells the story of Ace McAllister, who is spending the summer in Cherokee, North Carolina with her dysfunctional parents and her brother Zach.   Even though she is only 18, Ace has experienced a hard life: her parents have a tumultuous marriage with her mother turning to alcohol to comfort and numb the pain of her father’s extra marital flings and Ace is left to cover up her mum’s secret alcohol battle and also care for her autistic baby brother.   Her mother has invited her friend Susan and her son, Cameron, along for the holidays – hoping that the two will become close.   However, a day out white water rafting changes that, when Ace runs into Cherokee John Spears.   Although the two don’t get off to a brilliant start, gradually they find themselves drawn increasingly to each other and even though from different backgrounds, they have parallel lives in that they both deal with ...

  Spring at The Little Duck Pond Café’ (Little Duck Pond Café 1) Rosie Green Kindle Edition This is the first in a series of novellas by Rosie Green. Ellie Farmer comes to Sunnybrook village to take some pictures for her Mum, who is suffering from the early onset of Alzheimer’s, in the hope it will help her memory and immediately makes an entrance. After falling in the local duck pond, Ellie is offered a helping hand from the Little Duck Pond café proprietor, Sylvia Symington.   Things have not been going well for Ellie: with her mum’s sad diagnosis and the discovery that her long -term boyfriend, Richard, has cheated on her with the gorgeous librarian Giselle, Ellie feels it is time for a new start.   When Sylvia informs Ellie that the best way to deal with her troubles is a change of scenery and offers her the flat above the café for 6 months respite, Ellie is at a crossroads.   Taking the bull by the horn, she packs ...

  Scattered Constellations: A Poetry Collection Kindle Edition by  Ankita Singh   2018 Scattered Constellations is a compendium of poetry which considers the theme of   love and its many facets … I must admit I am not a huge poetry reader but my opinion has changed following the reading of this anthology.   I literally “loved” this compendium.   Ankita’s writing has a way of drawing you in and through her delivery, has you feeling all distinct kinds of emotions and in different situations.   I think this collection will be really appealing to younger readers, particularly the teenage element,   as it en-captures wonderfully what it is like to feel love as a teenager – the insecurities, the overwhelming and often heady emotions it entails and the first flush of love.   Ankita, in her verse, deals with all the facades of love, both positive and negative: love that is not requited, ...