Shooting At The Stars

Sep 13, 2025 4:55 AM

Author:Linda Taylor

Caroline Blake longs for a night under a cloud-free sky with the telescope of her dreams. Busy, happily single, and passionate about her hobby, her life is as ordered as the science classes she teaches. Lizzy Carter is living the life she'd longed for. With a lively young family, an adoring husband, good friends, and almost enough money, she appears to have it all. Antonia Clarke is a divorcee with a teenage daughter, an ailing car, an obstinate mother and a lodger she needs to placate. She longs for twenty-four uneventful hours - but the gods have other plans. When the engaging Tom Grainger moves into each of the women's lives, things start to change. Three women whose paths have already crossed, find their fates are about to collide.

Reviews

Romantic comedy at it's best

—— The Western Mail

These books are page-turners; they offer a wonderful way to learn about history, their heroines are smart, strong and in control of their destinies and their stories will remain with you for ever...They are a celebration of women's spirit throughout history

—— Daily Express

Far and away my favourite writer

—— Wendy Holden

One of our best historical novelists

—— News Chronicle

Harwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour... The Ghost Writer has powerful moments and...a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfully readable

—— Times Literary Supplement

'One of the country's most widely read novelists

—— Sunday Times

Jean Plaidy has already established herself among the foremost of current historical novelists

—— Birmingham Mail

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

'A grand recounting of the second Punic War...Durham's epic is truly a big, magnificent, sprawling story complete with a sizable cast of compelling characters, intricately drawn battle scenes and fluid, graceful prose'

—— Booklist (starred review)

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