My new found author.

This author has really caught my love of reading. Simple stories written beautifully. If you can be in love with an author, I love this one.. her stories aren't exciting but so very engaging.  So far I've read, Talk Before Sleep, Say When,  Until the Real Thing Comes Along and this one, The Year of Pleasures. 

She is able to create a warmth and a wisdom about her characters that engages you from the very first sentence.  Women talking together as old friends do. A Year of Pleasures is about Betta, whose husband has died. She relied totally on him and not surprisingly is lost without him.

But against all advice she decides to sell their home and move somewhere else.  She doesn't have a plan, except to take back roads, so she can drive through little towns, just as her husband John suggested might be a good thing to do. She stops at one, looks around and decides it is the one for her.

Her year of pleasures are simple things, a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music and art and the kindness of people. Her journey from grief to a new found happiness is an inspirational to anyone who has lost a great love and a great read.

Written so beautifully, I loved every word!

Chrisxx