A big thank you to Nick Alexander for sending me an exclusive preview copy of his new book Let The Light Shine which is released today! Like the sound of it? Well you can win a copy using the form at the end of this review...
Penny and Victoria are sisters, but that is where the similarities end. One is living the London lifestyle while the other is struggling to get by. But their past links them, back to a night no-one talks about but everyone remembers.
But what really happened in the past? Can memories be trusted? And are the events of that terrible Christmas the key to it all? The last Nick Alexander book I read was The Photographers Wife and I absolutely loved it. So this book had a lot to live up to. In a similar vein it had at it's core a dysfunctional family with a secret revolving around an event from the past. We are given the briefest glimpse of the fateful Christmas drama but then left to work out what actually unfolded during the book. Both sisters were really interesting; Penny with her stoner husband is being worn out trying to keep her family afloat on barely any money while sister Vicky is living the champagne lifestyle in London but yet is addicted to Valium and has serious problems with her son Bertie. And don't even get me started on their Mother. In fact that is the cleverest bit of the book. How Marge is manipulating the two girls, using them against each other without either realising is fascinating and written with such subtlety that you don't even realise it, until you do. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy read with relatable characters and clever storyline. Did it live up to The Photographer's Wife? Very nearly but it didn't quite cast a spell on me in the same way, possibly because there was a certain connection I felt with Barbara in The Photographer's Wife which I didn't feel with the main characters in this new story. You can enter my competition to win a paperback copy of Let The Light Shine by completing the Rafflecopter form below by 29th October 2016. You can buy the book from Amazon in paperback or kindle edition using the links below:
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97 Comments
Lyndsey Baines
3/10/2016 02:11:07 pm
i love the book 'the secret'
laura stewart
3/10/2016 03:47:45 pm
Slave girl
Ms Suan Watts
3/10/2016 05:34:19 pm
Gone Girl
All about a Mummy
10/10/2016 01:55:21 pm
Great book
Annabel Greaves
3/10/2016 06:45:30 pm
I love Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell xx
All about a Mummy
10/10/2016 01:55:49 pm
I love the Kay Scarpetta books too! Great choice
Andrea Fletcher
3/10/2016 07:12:54 pm
Cake shop in the garden by Carole Matthews.
Michelle Ferguson
3/10/2016 07:49:24 pm
I love the mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
Jasmine Johns
3/10/2016 09:39:06 pm
I love Peter James books, the Roy Grace series!
Karen hutchinson
3/10/2016 10:54:15 pm
Me before you is the best I have read in a while
All about a Mummy
10/10/2016 01:56:37 pm
That's a tear jerker! I wasn't impressed by the sequel though. But I guess it had a lot to live up to!
clair downham
4/10/2016 07:12:16 pm
the great gatsby
Maria Dhillon
5/10/2016 02:55:17 am
The Book Thief
All about a Mummy
10/10/2016 01:56:57 pm
This is on my to read list! 10/10/2016 02:17:46 pm
Tough question! I think that it has to be Little Women.
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:52:06 pm
I remember reading Little Women repeatedly when I was younger!
chantelle hazelden
10/10/2016 04:19:09 pm
ooo I've not read anything from this author before, thanks so much for sharing with #ReadWithMe
Paula Readings
10/10/2016 06:57:36 pm
The book thief was good.
Laura Pritchard
10/10/2016 07:22:11 pm
I love Perdido Street Station by China Mieville!
jules eley
10/10/2016 09:25:05 pm
Really enjoyed The missing.
Warren Jacobs
10/10/2016 11:14:13 pm
Magician by Raymond E Fiest.
Ruth Harwood
11/10/2016 08:36:56 am
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Kim Murray
11/10/2016 03:09:35 pm
Love 'Toast' by Nigel Slater x
Denise Cross
11/10/2016 06:31:11 pm
The Help 12/10/2016 07:14:18 am
Ohh this book sounds right up my street! Never heard of this author before either so one to add to the list :) #readwithme
Laura Jeffs
13/10/2016 06:01:47 pm
I have many favourite books, at the moment my definite favourite is Delirium by Lauren Oliver
JULIE WARD
14/10/2016 12:05:47 am
Blood brothers, Josephine Cox but I like most of her books
Solange
14/10/2016 04:07:51 am
To Kill A Mockingbird
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:53:13 pm
I have never read this! Which is a massive oversight! I got it for my birthday last week so it is next on my reading list.
michelle o'neill
14/10/2016 07:36:42 am
flowers in the attic
Angela Kelly
14/10/2016 01:28:21 pm
I couldn't possibly choose a favourite book, there are too many! The book I'm reading at the moment is A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine.
Hannah Ingham
14/10/2016 11:06:25 pm
I will always love To Kill A Mockingbird!
samantha bolter
16/10/2016 09:10:22 am
Dictator - Robert Harris
Charlotte Burford
16/10/2016 03:27:00 pm
Anything by Kate Mosse I cant put down!
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:53:40 pm
I love her books too!
Emma Rawlinson
16/10/2016 08:46:27 pm
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - happy memories of reading it for the first time aged 11
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:54:39 pm
I have just read this to my 5yr old and it was the first time for me. Reading it out loud I was amazed how lyrical her writing is.
DAWN HULL
16/10/2016 10:14:41 pm
My favourite has to be Pride and Prejudice.
Rebecca Williams
17/10/2016 09:22:56 am
I love Stephen King and my favourite book is Misery :)
Ray Becker
17/10/2016 11:37:11 am
Silencer by Andy McNab
Kelly Hooper
17/10/2016 07:33:35 pm
I loved Little Women as a child but my favourite right now is the Famous Five series, purely because my daughter has just got into reading them so I get to enjoy them all over again 25 years later with her
Jo Carroll
18/10/2016 09:54:23 am
'Fever Pitch' by Nick Hornby...it helped me understand my other half's total obsession with football whilst we were dating ;)
Christine Caple
18/10/2016 09:19:15 pm
I like any of Michael Connelly's books
carole n
20/10/2016 02:31:42 pm
love horror books by james herbert
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:55:33 pm
Ghost story is my favourite or Herberts!
Gail Oswald
20/10/2016 07:24:10 pm
Really enjoyed 'The Photographers Wife'. Cant wait to read another Nick Alexander novel.
Lindsey Alexander
20/10/2016 11:30:37 pm
Half life of Hannah
Angela Muir
21/10/2016 08:24:13 am
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Joanna Coleshill
21/10/2016 04:10:35 pm
Pride & Prejudice is my all time favourite
claire woods
22/10/2016 10:40:54 am
Flawed
chrissie anne bhaskar
22/10/2016 11:14:32 am
behind closed doors xxx
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:56:26 pm
I am currently reading this - super creepy!
Stephen Little
22/10/2016 12:47:58 pm
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Joanna Ford
22/10/2016 02:10:05 pm
My favourite book is the girl on the train and I can't wait to go and see it at the cinema!
Angela Macdonald
22/10/2016 09:36:49 pm
My favourite book so far is Farewell to France by Noel Barber
janine atkin
23/10/2016 12:11:57 pm
Plain truth by Jodi Picoult
Mary Duncan
23/10/2016 01:11:53 pm
I love all Maggie O'Farrel's books but especially 'My Lover's Lover'.
Sheri Darby
23/10/2016 09:02:40 pm
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Sheri Darby
24/10/2016 10:37:14 pm
Currently The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Marie Rule
25/10/2016 01:05:55 am
My favourite book is Rivers ran east by Leonard Clark
EJ Dunn
25/10/2016 01:10:42 am
The Beach by Alex Garland
Allan Wilson
25/10/2016 12:49:28 pm
A little known book called Ego by Tim Geary
Miss Tracy Hanson
25/10/2016 01:09:22 pm
The Night Staker by Chris Carter :)
Rachel Craig
25/10/2016 07:45:36 pm
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Keith Hunt
26/10/2016 03:18:00 pm
The Black Echo Harry Bosch
Victoria Prince
26/10/2016 04:09:02 pm
The Secret Garden :)
Lauren Old
26/10/2016 05:31:53 pm
My favourite book of the past year (picking one of all time is too hard) would be The Ice Twins by S K Tremayne
Richard Tyler
27/10/2016 02:58:39 am
GONE Girl
LEE HARDY
27/10/2016 11:19:28 am
Necroscope 3 by Brian Lumbley
Susan B
27/10/2016 01:23:29 pm
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting struck a chord with me when I picked it up. It stays beside my bed and I dip into it between reading 'better' books.
Averil Lea
27/10/2016 02:57:58 pm
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Michelle Wild
27/10/2016 02:58:23 pm
Triptych - Karin Slaughter
Jo McPherson
27/10/2016 04:08:16 pm
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simmons
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:57:18 pm
Oh that book was soooo emotional! Have you read any of the sequels?
Ed Hill
27/10/2016 05:14:32 pm
Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
carol boffey
27/10/2016 05:16:19 pm
i love stephen king pet semetery is my fav
All about a Mummy
27/10/2016 05:58:10 pm
I love a bit of old school King
Ria Evans
27/10/2016 06:44:13 pm
To kill a mockingbird
lauren porter
27/10/2016 07:22:40 pm
memoirs of a geisha is fab :)
Abbie steer
27/10/2016 08:37:06 pm
I see you by Claire mackintosh a real page Turner
christine nicholson
27/10/2016 09:55:53 pm
The Help
Adrian Bold
27/10/2016 10:04:52 pm
To Kill A Mockingbird
Aaron Milne
27/10/2016 10:09:12 pm
So many favourites
claire little
27/10/2016 10:53:45 pm
I love James Patterson
Amanda Norwood
27/10/2016 11:07:22 pm
Pride & Prejudice
Emilia nastaly-howard
28/10/2016 09:29:34 am
Pride and Prejudice :)
Wendy Guy
28/10/2016 09:47:11 am
My favourite book is Me before You by Jojo Moyes
kelly morgan
28/10/2016 10:59:00 am
i love all different books
Natalie White
28/10/2016 01:18:37 pm
The Best a Man Can Get - it's really hilarious!!
Heather Simpson
28/10/2016 08:11:57 pm
So many books I love, but The Colour Purple is an all time fave.
Rebecca Powell
28/10/2016 08:40:42 pm
The Lovely Bones
ellie spider
28/10/2016 10:20:59 pm
I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels - cant just pick one tho
Sarah Weston
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