Mothers and Daughters: From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes the most captivating new family drama of 2022

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The writing in this book is so good and it’s full of characters I loved however the triggers in the book meant I had to take regular breaks. Bit over the idea that women over 60 need to have someone else make their decisions for them, particularly after the death of their controlling spouse. But these are very specific problems that I know about through other means and probably wouldn’t affect other people’s interest or enjoyment in the story, and to be fair didn’t affect mine either! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Ms James doesn’t use stereotypes, there are no wicked people or femme fatales which is so refreshing. Having decided the time is right for a baby, Martha is dismayed that after ten months of trying she still hasn’t conceived and it’s starting to feel like failure to a woman driven by perfectionism. Ms James has the knack of making her characters feel real – as I said I have read her books for years and still remember the names and personality of some of them.I don't want to give the story away, but such a hoo hah because mother had found love and with such a convenient ending. Although I had several minor niggles, one in particular relating to the far too convenient disposal of a nuisance character that felt lazy, I was impressed with the storytelling ability of Erica James and would happily read more about these characters or another of her books. With recent Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers including Swallowtail Summer, Coming Home to Island House and, most recently the hardback bestseller, Letters from the Past.

In the end, all she really wants is for everyone to be happy – she just needs to realise that people have to come to it their own way. Erica James does have an uncanny knack of making the places she describes feel real, and the house was almost as much a character in the story as the human ones. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review. Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for giving me an e-book copy of this novel for a review.

The novel never strayed into twee territory despite the reader feeling relatively safe in the knowledge of an ultimately happy ending, regardless of the upheaval along the way. By contrast for the first time Willow has a boyfriend in Rick, who her family approve of as charming, steady and dependable. This was such an easy book to read, and the setting made it a perfect summer read to get stuck into! Naomi's daughters are very different: Martha is determined and driven like her father, while Willow is a free spirit.

Naomi and her daughters Martha and Willow are introduced; this is a powerful and dramatic storyline that is splendidly presented.As a woman the same age as Naomi, it’s she I feel the greatest empathy for, and I must admit that at first I did not take to Martha at all.

Erica James is the author of twenty-three internationally bestselling novels, with recent Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers including Swallowtail Summer , Coming Home to Island House and, most recently the hardback bestseller, Letters from the Past .Willow is easy going, caring and loving and just ambles through life changing jobs and boyfriends, her father found that so frustrating and was very open to letting her know that she needed to make some plans and be more like Martha. With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review. Her characterisation is excellent, the setting beautiful and the slow reveals are delicately and sensitively handled. The stories of all three women are woven together superbly and although the overall tone of the novel is heartwarming, they each face plenty of adversity along the way which affect them at an individual level and change the dynamic between them all.