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by Nora Roberts



      Cilla McGowan has turned her back on Hollywood and has purchased Little Farm from her demanding mother.  This was where her legendary grandmother lived and finally committed suicide, after leading a full but troubled life.  Cilla was herself a child star, but has now made a career out of doing up old houses and selling them.  She plans to work her magic on Little Farm, but then make it into her home.  Having a good-looking man living opposite helps, but somebody is trying to kill her.

Few people write this sort of thing better than Ms Roberts, and many worldwide bestsellers prove this to be more than just my opinion.  It is easy to fall in love with this small Virginian community and wish to be there, and I personally was enthralled by the descriptions of the house renovation.  This act of creation and restoration seemed to counterbalance perfectly the doomed, tragic life of Cilla’s grandmother and her difficult, selfish mother just as it did the acts of violence perpetrated by whoever is trying to kill Cilla.  My problem was the awesome length of this book, which stretches out the rather simple, linear plot to bursting point and lessens any feeling of suspense.  In spite of this, there is enough of the usual magic wrought by this author to make the book a good read for romantic suspense fans, though it is not her best work.

The Book

Piatkus (Little, Brown)
8 July 2008
Trade Paperback
0749939222 / 9780749939229
Romantic Suspense
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Excerpt
NOTE: Christmas read
2nd review. First review available here

The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2008
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