The Reading Corner- Summer Wish List

Hey there,

Last year I made a summer wish list of some of the things I wanted to do during the summer time and this year, as I have collected quite a few books recently, I have decided to make a summer reading list including those books that I want to read.

Summer Reading List

1. Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop- Abby Clements

 

When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their Grandmother Vivien's ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside down. The Brighton shop is a seafront institution, but though it's big on retro charm it's critically low on customers. If the sisters don't turn things around quickly, their Grandmother's legacy will disappear forever.

 

With summer fast approaching, Imogen and Anna devise a plan. Rather than sell up, they will train up, and make the parlour the newest destination on the South Coast foodie map.

 

While Imogen watches the shop and conjures new marketing ideas, her sister flies to Italy to attend a gourmet ice cream-making course. But can their best-laid plans survive their warring family, tempestuous love lives- and the great British weather? One thing is for certain- this summer will be like no other...

 

2. One Small Act of Kindness- Lucy Dillon

 

What can you do to make the world a better place?

 

Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B&B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories- good and bad- that went with it.

 

The injured woman Libby finds lying in the remote country road has lost her memory. She doesn't know why she came to be there, and no one seems to be looking for her. When Libby offers to take her in, this one small act of kindness sets in motion a chain of events that will change many people's lives...

 

3. The Vintage Teacup Club- Vanessa Greene

 

At a car boot sale in Sussex, three very different women meet and fall for the same vintage teaset. They decide to share it- and form a friendship that changes their lives...

 

Jenny can't wait to marry Dan. Then, after years of silence, she hears from the woman who could shatter her dreams.

 

Maggie has put her broken heart behind her and is gearing up for her biggest event of her career- until she's forced to confront the past once more.

 

Alison seems to have it all: married to her childhood sweetheart, with two gorgeous daughters. But as tensions mount, she is pushed to breaking point.

 

Dealing with friendship and families, relationships and careers, highs and lows, The Vintage Teacup Club is heart-warming storytelling at its very best.

 

 4. The Hourglass Factory- Lucy Ribchester

 

Meet Ebony Diamond: trapeze artist, tiger-tamer, suffragette. Where there is trouble, she is never far away. But now she's the one in trouble, and she's up to her neck in it.

 

Enter Frankie George: tomboy, cub reporter, chippy upstart. She's determined to make her name on the London Evening Gazette, if only someone will give her a chance.

 

Then Ebony disappears during a performance at the London Coliseum, and Frankie jumps at the chance to find out what happened. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory?

 

From the newsrooms of Fleet Street to the suffragette headquarters. Frankie enters a world of society columnists, corset fetishists and circus freaks on the trail of a murderous villain with a plot more deadly than anyone could have imagined...

 

5. Girl Online- Zoe Sugg

 

Penny has a secret.

 

Under the alias of Girl Online, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, her crazy family and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah: a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American.

Suddenly Penny is falling in love- and capturing every moment of it on her blog.

 

But Noah has a secret too. One that threatens to ruin Penny's cover- and her closest friendship- forever.

 

 6. McBusted Unauthorised- Jennifer Parker

 

They could hear the screams from backstage- and they hadn't even started yet. McBUSTED gathered in a circle in their dressing room,

 

Together, they gave a unified, single clap, all twelve hands pressed together, not a whisper of a second apart, to ensure that the band were all on the same wavelength for the show ahead. Then the circle broke up. The band members bumped fists as they made their way towards the stage.

 

Tom, Dougie and Danny took their places beneath the stage, their guitars ready in their hands. Harry sat behind his drum kit, poised and in position. James and Matt looked at each other. This was it. The boys had done this so many times before. But this time, everything felt different.

 

Six was the magic number.

 

7. All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflection on Growing up Gracefully- Carrie Hope Fletcher

 

The essential guide to surviving 'the Teen Age' from YouTube star

Carrie Hope Fletcher.

 

'I pushed and persevered through the crap all teenagers go through- the bullying, the boys, the peer pressure, the friends, the enemies, the frenemies... Now I'm here, watching as you guys go through almost identical experiences; trapped on the wrong side of a computer screen.

Helpless... until now'

 

 

 8. Dream A Little Dream- Giovanna Fletcher

 

Sarah is doing just fine. Sure she's been single for the last five years, and has to spend an uncomfortable amount of time around her ex-boyfriend and their mutual friends, and the rest at her tediously mundane job, but it's fine. She's happy(ish).

But it's not surprising that when Sarah starts dreaming about a handsome stranger, she begins looking forward to falling asleep at night. Reality isn't nearly as exciting. That is until her dream-stranger makes an unexpected real-life appearance, leaving Sarah questioning everything she thought she wanted.

Because people never really find the person of their dreams... do they?

 

 

So there are the books I have selected for the summer. I have included the blurbs from each book in case you wanted to know a little bit about any of them!
. If you have any recommendations for any books you think I should read, please let me know and if you were to make a summer reading list, which books would be on your list?

Bye for now,

 

Megan x