Alice & Jean
by Lily Hammond
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Pub Date Oct 19 2016 | Archive Date Dec 01 2016
Description
Jean has been head over heels in love with the sparky and adorable single mother since the first time she saw her. She’s even drawn to Alice’s two fatherless children, and family life has never looked so good. Jean’s deep desire to have more than a life spent looking in from the outside seems more than she should hope for, and now Alice has her tossing the dice for it against all odds.
But there are two people in town who believe they have the prior claim to Alice, in duty and affection, and they’ll do almost anything to get what they want.
Alice and Jean have discovered that each is what the other has always longed for, each other’s missing link. Now they need to find a way to be together, despite the obstacles.
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780473378158 |
| PRICE | $4.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Cathy G, Reviewer
Alice & Jean by Lily Hammond
True love can happen anytime, anywhere and between any two people. I loved this story!
I loved:
* The setting: a small town in New Zealand
* The time period: 1946 just after the Second World War has ended
* The lovers: Alice - widow and mother of two & Jean – a woman able to do a man’s job better than most men.
* The children: Jack who is the man of the house at age 8 and Tilly at 3 who is a sweet child
* The community: who were friends who supported Alice & Jean
* The love story: honest, tender and true
* The conclusion: a perfect HEA
* The memories: that took me back to delivering milk with my uncle and also of wedding photos of my parents wedding taken after WWII with dad in his uniform
* All of it – except the two in town that were despicable…
I am thankful to NetGalley and Sapphica Books for the copy of this delightful novel. This is a new author to me and one I will look for in the future. This is my honest review.
5 Stars
Karen M, Reviewer
I could not put this wonderful book down until I had savoured the last page. Lily Hammond has written a beautiful love story, full of high emotion and unbearable tension. Alice is a war widow with two children in 1946 New Zealand, just getting by, while her monstrous mother, Geraldine, lives in a big house in town with plenty of money. Her mother tries to control her life but Alice is a strong woman with a mind of her own. When she falls in love with Jean, the local ‘milkman’, things become fraught with tension and danger. Although some people are willing to live and let live, Geraldine is not and is determined to try and reign in her daughter. Local town bully Big Jim thinks he has a claim on Alice and is not going to back off. The level of threat the two women face is immense and I really felt scared for them. Their relationship is tender and passionate and meant to be and I could not imagine anyone reading this book failing to fall in love with them. Lily Hammond transported me to another world, in another time and it was mesmerising.
I was given this ARC free by Netgalley and Sapphica Books in return for an honest review.
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