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

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This is a multi-layered and engaging story filled with interesting and diverse characters, all hiding behind their secrets and for very good reasons. Naomi meets her new neighbour, Ellis, who is actually an old acquaintance, and thinks that now is the time to move past the death of her husband, Colin, and have Ellis by her side.

I’ve been reading Erica James novels for over 20 years – hers were the first adult books I ever read, and. Introducing new members into an established family can sometimes cause fractions and difficulties I thought this was brilliantly explored in the book.My thanks to the publisher for my copy via NetGalley; this is – as always – my honest, original and unbiased review. 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. The insecurity in relationships and hidden secrets means that the women are more connected than they realise, even when Willow and Martha are opposed to Naomi’s connection with Ellis. It is a lovely story of trauma and survival and I admired each of the women, but can’t help but feel that it’s a little fortuitous that everything worked out so easily.

The youngest and the most indecisive, who drifts along in life not really having a focus of what she wants to do. Naomi's daughters are very different: Martha is determined and driven like her father, while Willow is a free spirit. 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. Naomi doesn’t know how to tell her daughters about Ellis, especially Martha, she was very close to her father and she won’t be happy. While Willow had always had great empathy, was a good listener and had no ambitions other than to enjoy life.Thank you to everyone who wished me well yesterday, I can report that the cataract surgery was over in ten mind and didn't hurt. Our three heroines lives are changing, but not always in the way they expect, and never independently of each other’s. I feel I’ve been on a writing journey with Erica as her style developed through her earliest books into something quite special. Willow is a very empathetic character, gentle, kind and vulnerable and her relationship with Rick is one of the most interesting aspects of this story. Naomi loves her two girls, but when she meets an old friend it upsets the equilibrium and, although they think they know everything about their mother, Naomi, like most of us, has her secrets – and she’s not the only one.

Erica James’ writing appears so effortless, and from the first paragraph, I was drawn into the story.Some I felt so much sympathy for and I was so hoping that they wouldn’t sabotage their own chance of happiness. 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 . The relationship of three women, a mother and her two grown up daughters and how they have dealt with the death of their father/husband two years previously is explored in the novel.