This book is beautiful. Yes, it is and nothing can change my mind. The characters are relatable, they have their own prejudices and flaws and the plot is sad but it is also filled with warmth. It touched my heart.

A beautiful book, and a really heartfelt story of love, loss, courage and tragedy.

The author has a beautiful way with words, and really managers to portray the emotions of the characters very well. Her writing reminds me a little of Sally Vickers. The whole ‘feel’ of the novel had me utterly absorbed.

James a widow has just moved to Upton, a small village in Hampshire. A new start for him as he takes up the position of Vicar in this small parish. The discovery of a women’s scarf in the church takes him on a mission to find its owner, as there is something which is very, very familiar about it. In doing so the reader is taken back in time to when James meets his late wife Yvette.

Dual time lines of 1970 Upton and Alexandria during WW11 merge wonderfully together to give us a rich and touching story. However with James looking back he can not escape once again remembering the tragedy the couple experience in the early time of their marriage and we also hear, with great raw emotion, from the note books written by Yvette at this time. Secrets are revealed and the story opens up to the reader with great effect.

Lovely smaller characters like James’ son and boss added wonderfully to the story and I loved the tie in with We Must Be Brave. Although at times, a raw and sad story (still birth is part of the novel), it is one filled with much love and forgiveness.

Another wonderful tale from this author.

Many thanks to the publishers for my advanced digital copy via Netgalley.

Think of me is a great book, set in two times – Egypt in the middle of WW2 in 1942 and England in the 1970s. As World War 2 rages on, Yvette and James are separated time and time again. After the war they make a life together in England until tragedy comes their way and they must fight again to face it.

Ten years after Yvette’s death, James has his memories re-opened and the reader feels his pain. It is a gripping tale of love and tragedy. Once begun this captivating read is difficult to put down.
Thank you Frances Liardet for bringing this unmissable tale to life and Net galley for allowing me to read it.

This book is beautifully written and structured - so sad and yet uplifting too. The characters are real and flawed. Although it is essentially about grief, it is also full of dry humour. Meticulously researched, from WWII to stillborn births, everything was written about so beautifully, it was a joy to read.

This is the first book I've read by this author and while it took awhile to get into it, I did enjoy it in the end - to the extent I had tears rolling down my face!
The book follows both stories of a married couple who meet in Egypt in the middle of WW2. One narrative concentrates on that journey and their early life together while another follows the husband after his wife has died several years earlier. The novel is slightly hard going in the middle but the reader will be rewarded for persevering as the last third of the book has all the strands come together for an emotional end.

I really like this book. It was well written with a compelling storyline that took place in several places and over several years, and well developed characters that I loved. The content within the book was full of vivid descrioptions and rich imagery that made me feel like I was in the pages and it was way more emotive than I expected, I went on a rollercoaster of emotions whilst reading it. I really liked it and I cannot wait to read more by this author.

Such an emotional read! I loved how the author wove the story telling if the two main characters to build a complete picture. The ending was very satisfying.

Sadly I didn’t finish this book, it’s not my usual genre/style of book and I just couldn’t not get into the story.

I loved Think of Me by Frances Liardet.

It's a story told in three different settings in time and place: wartime Alexandria, post-war Hampshire and then another part of Hampshire - a leafier, more rural space - in the early 1970s. The central character who appears in all three places is James Acton, a Church of England vicar. And the story recounts his life with his wife Yvette and later his son Tom.

It's powerful and thought-provoking and often unexpected. It made me smile and cry, sometimes at the same time. The three setting and their moods and skilfully evoked and the pictures the descriptions created remain in my mind.

Having received an ARC of this title, I found that it took me a little while to get into this book. For me, a physical copy is much easier to connect with. But by about 25% in, I was completely captivated by this beautiful story.

James has just moved to Upton, a fresh start having been a widower for ten years. But a glimpse of a scarf in his church is to give him a mystery to solve which will transport him back in time to face the most difficult period of his life.

In between James' narrative, we are privy to his late wife's inner thoughts as she puts her history down on paper in a series of notebooks before she dies.

Theirs is a love story in its truest sense. They experience a loss so deep it threatens to undo their once seemingly unbreakable connection.

Truly stunning writing, elegiac and moving. The last few chapters had me reaching for a tissue as it broke my heart, before putting it back together.

Absolutely beautiful.

A story that moved me to tears and kept me hooked. A mix of historical fiction and women's fiction that brought me back in time and share the emotions of the characters.
The author did an excellent job in developing the characters and their emotions are vivid and realistic.
The plot is well created and I liked the story telling.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

This is an absorbing read, set in a simpler time, but with no less of life's trials.

The story is told through both Tom and Yvette, it's also in two different timelines.

If I'm honest I wasn't pulled into this story straight away, it seemed too slow, but then all of a sudden I was sucked into this touching read.

Yvette came across as a warm character, as did James. It explores their life together and James present/future life. It doesn't shy away from tough subjects.

This is an easy book to get lost in, just give it time to grab you.

I struggled to get used to this writing style, however that's my problem, not the writers, and although this wasnt a 'gripping' read, i wanted to keep reading to find things out and was shocked at the twists, which I usually see coming but didn't in this

A very moving read about loves and losses and how people deal and survive these experiences.
It is a love story that evolved during the Second World War and survived a great many tragedies in those early post war years
It shows as in real life that actions that people take can also have consequences for those that follow especially for their children and those they love.
It is a very thought provoking read and I can’t recommend it enough

Think of me.
A nice touching romantic story I enjoyed this, not usually into romance but a good read all the same told in twin time line. Enjoyable.

I really loved this book! I was hooked from the start and read it in a day. When James finds what he thinks is his deceased wife's scarf in his church it sets him off on a trail that makes him face up to his past and embrace the future. Told from present day 1970s James and 1960s Yvette's viewpoints I was immediately whisked back to that time and felt enveloped in the village life.
There are sad moments in this (which are even more poignant when you read the author's notes at the back) but the whole book has a thread of humour all the way through it which made me chortle a few times!
It's a heartwarming read and I really hope it gets the success it deserves. I shall be looking out for the author's other books now!
Thanks to NetGalley for a free copy in return for an honest review.

Thankyou for giving me the chance to read. It was
Ok and I read it but as the previous reviews have said, the cover is a bit deceptive. And it’s definitely more romance.

I'm sure lots of people will love this book, but it's not really the sort of thing I enjoy reading - too much of a 'romance' than I would typically choose. The 'literary' cover fooled me, I'm afraid. I liked the beginning of the historical section set in Alexandria during WW2 but then it starts to feel rather superficial: a young pilot, for example, is shot, burned, loses one eye and in the turn of a few pages it's all forgotten about. Similarly, James' time as a prisoner of war for years in Germany is passed over lightly. The other parallel strand set in the 1970s didn't engage me at all, sadly, as widowed James takes up post as the vicar in a new parish. This is written nicely but just isn't my style of reading