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Rosie’s #BookReview Team #RBRT SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS by @lizzie_lamb #Romance #wwwblogs

Many thanks to Rosie Amber for featuring this review on her fabulous blog, and to Jessie for writing it. Download Scotch on the Rocks and see if you agree.

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Rosie’s #BookReview Team #RBRT SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS by @lizzie_lamb

Thanks to Rosie Amber for featuring me on her fabulous review blog – and to Liz Lloyd for writing the review.

Heart-warming Reads from New Romantics Press

A recipe for “clootie dumplings” and a lovely Scottish memory for St Andrew’s Day

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St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and today, 30th November, is St Andrew’s Day –  and I have the perfect guest and the perfect recipe to celebrate!

Lizzie Lamb is a Scottish author and her fiction is set in lovely Scotland. Lizzie’s joined me here today with a recipe for the fabulous sounding Scottish “clootie dumpling”. Welcome, Lizzie – I can’t wait to find out just what this is!

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lizzie lamb, helena fairfaxI only have to unscrew a jar of cinnamon and I’m seven years old again, making my way home from school through the deep snow of a Scottish winter. But I don’t mind the cold because I know that there’s Clootie Dumpling waiting for me. Not Lord Snooty’s Christmas pudding, as dark and round as Guy Fawkes’s bomb – I mean Clootie Dumpling, its bigger, more substantial Scottish cousin, a cross between a Quatermass Experiment…

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Lizzie Launches a Newsletter

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Once you have subscribed to my newsletter, your name will be entered into a draw to win a signed copy of BOOT CAMP BRIDE. Everything you need to know is on the newsletter, so hurry over there.

Here’s the blurb for Boot Camp Bride . . .

Take an up-for-anything rookie reporter.  Add a world-weary photo-journalist.  Put them together . . . light the blue touch paper and stand well back! Posing as a bride-to-be, Charlee Montague goes undercover at a boot camp for brides in Norfolk to photograph supermodel Anastasia Markova looking less than perfect. At Charlee’s side and posing as her fiancé, is Rafael Ffinch award winning photographer and survivor of a kidnap attempt in Colombia. He’s in no mood to cut inexperienced Charlee any slack and has made it plain that once the investigation is over, their partnership – and fake engagement – will be terminated, too.  Soon Charlee has more questions than answers. What’s the real reason behind Ffinch’s interest in the boot camp? How is it connected to his kidnap in Colombia? In setting out to uncover the truth, Charlee puts herself in danger … As the investigation draws to a close, she wonders if she’ll be able to hand back the engagement ring and walk away from Rafa without a backward glance.

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Some of the locations featured in BOOT CAMP BRIDE 

 

 

Happy Birthday to New Romantics Press!!

Scotch on the Rocks by Lizzy Lamb

Thanks to Jessie for posting this review of Scotch on the Rocks on her fabulous blog. I’m so glad she liked it ❤

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“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

– Janet Evanovitch 

Life had too much peanut butter in it. I needed a birthday cake of a romance novel and, thankfully, Scotch on the Rocks was on the menu.

Why a birthday cake of a romance novel?

Well… because like birthday cake, you aren’t expecting nutrition from your romance novel. You don’t expect your latest romance or slice of birthday cake to make you a better person. And you don’t actually want much of a surprise. “Surprise – your birthday cake has nuts!” Is not something anyone wants to hear.

The comfort of predictability, reliable sweetness, a touch of decadence, and a great big pile of happy……

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Welcome – Jo Lambert, writer and her latest novel

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Hi Jo and welcome to my blog. Sit down, Jo, make yourself comfortable and we’ll begin. When I started out as a writer I think yours was one of the first blogs I appeared on – that was back in 2013. Can you believe it? How the time (and the writing) has flown.

I had no idea what I was doing but you soon sorted me out. Now I’m more savvy, I’m happy to repay the favour. So, tell us all about your new novel: SUMMER MOVED ON. Great cover by the way.

Thank you Lizzie for giving me the opportunity to showcase my latest novel,

Summer Moved On.

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Jo’s new novel – Summer Moved On

It’s a contemporary romance set in 2007 about two people from completely different backgrounds meeting and falling in love. Jess Hayden is a middle class girl on course for university. Talún Hansen is a penniless farm worker who lives in the village where her uncle runs the village pub, The Black Bull.  Jess already has a boyfriend, surgeon’s son Zac Rayner; someone her father has earmarked as eventual marriage material. However, spending a holiday with Rufus brings her into contact with Talún and the beginning of a forbidden and passionate summer love. But as autumn approaches, a dark shadow from Jess’s past returns, bringing far-reaching and unwanted changes for both of them.

 

What reviewers have to say…

  • It’s a real page turner …

  • Powerful, thought provoking romance…

  • The location and characters are superbly drawn and Jo Lambert certainly knows how to tell a story…

  • Entertaining, emotional summer read…

  • Rich in interesting characters and an equally interesting plot…

  • Love, heartbreak, loss and friendship – this book has it all…

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Jo Lambert – author

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You can find out more about Jo and her books by following these links:

Book link:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0139IXHZE

Web and Blog Links: Website: www.jolambertbooks.com

Blog: www.jolambertwriter.wordpress.com

All that remains for me is to go onto amazon and download Summer Moved On for my kindle, settle back for a great read – and to write a review once I’ve finished. Why don’t you do the same?

Scotch on the Rocks by Lizzie Lamb

Many thanks to Liz Lloyd and LOST IN A BOOK for her fabulous review of Scotch on the Rocks

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From the first few lines of Scotch on the Rocks we know exactly the kind of character we are meeting in heroine Ishabel Stuart.  Brave and intelligent, her single minded determination could achieve anything but she may well antagonise anyone who crosses her path.  Returning to her home island in the Scottish Highlands she is seeking peace and a new life after the break down of her engagement.

But first she must arrange her father’s funeral and she is not best pleased to find her Aunt Esme’s B and B brimming with guests.  The guests depart, sadly taking Esme with them, but Issie still has to deal with the unwanted presence of a tall, handsome, charming American.  Why is she so rude to him and what is he hiding?

On the face of it, we have the recipe for a sweet romance as conflict gives way to love but Lizzie…

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