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Title: Her Frozen Heart

Author: Lulu Taylor

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

'Caitlyn, there's something I have to tell you. About Sara.'

Caitlyn thinks her marriage to Patrick is a success. For one thing, he is one of the few people not to fall head over heels for her beautiful friend, Sara. Life is lived on his terms, but they are happy.

Aren't they?

When a devastating accident turns her existence upside down, Caitlyn is forced to reassess everything she thought about her marriage, what she truly knows about Patrick, and his real feelings for her best friend. In the refuge of an old manor house, she begins to discover the truth.

In 1947, the worst winter in decades hits England, cutting off entirely the inhabitants of Kings Harcourt Manor. For Tommy Carter, widowed at the start of war, it is particularly hard: the burden of the family falls on her. She has the solace of her children, and the interesting presence of her brother's friend, Fred. But there is also Barbara, a mysterious figure from her past who appears to want a piece of Tommy's future as well.

Her Frozen Heart is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top 10 best-selling author of The Snow Rose.

Members Reviews:

A lovely story about triumph over adversity

This is such a lovely story. It is extremely sad in places. It is the story of two women coming to terms with the deaths of their husbands. Tommy is struggling to look after the family home during World War Two when her husband is killed in action. Her family live in a large Manor House, and the story occurs in 1947, when very bad weather virtually shut the country down, roads were unpassable, and very little rationed food was getting through to towns and villages. Tommy has to care for her two children, brother, sister and mother, two staff, a friend of her brother and an old school friend of hers with her daughter who had been foisted on her just before the weather closed all transport down.

The seemingly unconnected story of Caitlyn who lost her husband in a very tragic road accident is in the present day, so the stories are more than sixty years apart. She is totally lost without Patrick, and she has a friend, Sara, who constantly undermines her confidence, and implies that Caitlyn was not good enough for Patrick, which is why he was having an affair with her. Caitlyn finds information amongst her husband's paperwork that suggests Sara might be telling the truth, which adds to her distress.

The story of each woman is told in alternate chapters, and although their problems are slightly different due to the difference in time they are nevertheless similar in effect and complexity, and you feel great empathy with both women. They both have to be brave to solve the issues that feel insurmountable until they tackle them. Both stories have an uplifting ending, with both women finding happiness with a new partner.

I have not read anything by Lulu Taylor before, but I will certainly seek out her books. She writes emotion exceedingly well, and also gives you a clear feeling of time and place. She has clearly researched well. I heartily recommend this book .

I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, and am pleased to write an honest review. All opinions expressed are entirely my own

Best friend Sara however

'Her Frozen Heart, by Lulu Taylor follows the lives of two women separated by a generation. Tommy (Thomasina) lives with her extended family in a large country house at the end of the Second World War.