The Turn of the Tide by Margaret Henderson Smith
| The Turn of the Tide by Margaret Henderson Smith | |
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| Category: General Fiction | |
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Reviewer: Sue Magee
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| Summary: The fifth book in this engaging series Sees Harriet Glover pregnant and getting into just as many scrapes as before. Bags of fun! | |
| Buy? Yes | Borrow? Yes |
| Pages: 322 | Date: January 2015 |
| Publisher: Swirl | |
| External links: Author's website | |
| ISBN: 978-1845496487 | |
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Harriet Glover is well and truly over Mark after he left her standing at the altar. She's pregnant with Sir Joris Sanderson's child and he's keen to make the relationship permanent, but ghosts from his past return to haunt him, unfortunately at a rather important dinner party. The mystery of 'Amber' really has to be solved and the web of lies which surround her dismantled. Harriet is still being led astray by Tricia Harrington (or so Harriet's mother would have you believe...) and she can't really make up her mind about 'Mr Sanderson', particularly when the man from MI6 is around. She's got a lot to cope with and that's before we even get on to the subject of the Prime Minister's daughter's wedding, which must remain secret.
We first met Harriet Glover in A Question of Answers, when she despaired of ever getting her partner, Mark, to marry her and we've held her hand through her adventures ever since. To say that they've been up and down would be something of an understatement and in fairness to Harriet's mother, Tricia is usually involved when something goes wrong, creating situations which are the love child of P G Wodehouse and Frank Spencer of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
Harriet has matured (well, as much as any woman who is the mother of adult children, a teacher and a dame is ever going to mature) over the time we've known her. She's a little calmer - perhaps it's the result of her pregnancy or the expectation that she's going to be deputy head of the school, or even the fact that she's driving around in a rather superior car these days. There are even moments when she might not be enjoying Tricia's humour. But whatever it is there's no need to worry that it's going to slow the plot down at all - it still runs away at breakneck speed and you worry that if you stop reading it might get away from you.
They're all characters we've warmed to over the series, but don't worry if you haven't read any or all of the preceding books as there's a handy catch-up at the beginning. Margaret Henderson Smith has thought of everything and with a more thorough proofreading to complete the book it would have merited more than 3½ stars.
I'd like to thank the publisher for sending a copy to the Bookbag. Do start at the beginning with A Question of Answers if at all possible: it's a fun series. You might also enjoy The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg.
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