Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe


  • The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner

    Hachette Australia MAY 26, 2020 | 9781409194118 | RRP $32.99 Wow! This is certainly one impressive debut novel and well worth putting on your TBR list, particularly if you love books like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and others of its ilk. Beautifully articulated characters who drive this narrative, which has some basis in historical fact…

  • The Happy Prisoner – Monica Dickens

      First published in 1946 I originally read this when a friend gave me  a copy as a birthday gift many (many!) years ago. I loved it so much and re-read it so often that the paperback disintegrated over time and was reluctantly abandoned. A few weeks ago the wonderful Pat Pledger of ReadPlus invited…