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Have you left your Christmas shopping a bit late this year? If so and you have book-loving friends and family, then allow me to share...

Hi, my name is Isla and I am delighted to be the guest blog for December.   Previously, I uploaded regularly to my own blog https://islaandheradventures.blogspot.com/ but recently I have been rather busy. The one thing that I still ensure I make time for is reviewing books on NetGalley (as advanced reader copies) for my favourite authors. In the past, I have posted these reviews to my blog alongside retail sides and always NetGalley first. Most recently, I haven’t posted to

The Garden of Shared Stories Emma is at an all-time low the day she meets Nick. She sits down in a quiet rose garden in her local park, and from nowhere a handsome man sits next to her and turns her world upside down. Over the weeks, she and Nick meet regularly, always in the same place, always at the same time. They discover they have a lot in common – shared heartbreak, and shared dreams. They tell each other stories about the people they’ve lost – things they’ve never told

Lights twinkle red, blue, green dazzling in the dark   Cornwall has its ‘Welcome Home’ trees, ours less well known but just as welcome a sight   Not long moved back ‘home’ to see family, dark night, pouring rain   sad to leave displaced, not quite belonging.   Out of the gloom they emerge in all their seasonal brilliance the guardians on the hill   watching over our slumbering town; one in the valley, one on the crest   and without warning, the feeling of belonging, open arms