It was my stop yesterday on the book tour for T.A Belshaw’s book Hopes And Fears. I am bring my review late and with apologies to both Zoe and Trevor. Thank you to ZooLoo’s Book Tours and Trevor Belshaw
FEATURING AMY ROWLINGS!
Christmas 1940. Despite the rationing and the Blackout, excitement at Mollison Farm is building as Alice and her workforce prepare for the annual Christmas Eve party. The snow has arrived, bang on time.
And this year, Alice has a big secret.
She has invited her evacuee children’s mother to spend a few precious days with her kids at Christmas, but disaster strikes and Alice is given the shock news that Rose’s home is now nothing more than a pile of bricks and the woman herself is missing, lost in the Blitz.
Amy, Alice’s best friend is despatched to the capital in a race against time, to find Rose and if possible, get her out of London.
As the search intensifies and the bombs start to fall again, Amy meets Rose’s sleazy husband Terry, a draft dodger, and Kevin, the ARP man with something to hide.
Meanwhile, on the farm, Stephen and Harriet discover the truth about their mother’s disappearance and Alice finds herself having to deal with the consequences.
The snow will fall and the farmyard carols will be sung, but will it be a happy Christmas on Mollison Farm?
I have read every single book written by T.A Belshaw and every book is excellent. Hopes And Fears is another book from the Unspoken series: An Unspoken Christmas Story. I knew I would be glued to my kindle. Trevor Belshaw’s writing does this to me.
Transported to 1940, Christmas and the farm with Alice and her daughter Martha. She has two evacuee children living with them. A brother and sister, Stephen and Harriet. As she runs the farm and lives life the best they can, she discovers that Stephen and Harriets mother, Rose, has been bombed out and she is missing.
Amy goes to London to attempt to find Rose and get her back to the farm if possible. Will she be able to and will Christmas be a happy one on the farm this year?
I never realised how much I missed Amy and Alice until I started reading. It felt like I was back with my friends. Trevor Belshaw has a skill in creating characters that are so well fleshed out they feel like real people. I have felt this from his first Unspoken book.
In Hopes And Fears he recreates life in 1940 so vividly. The research is clear with the minute details and the authenticity of the writing. The mystery and intrigue builds as the story progresses. This kept me turning the pages too. This author never fails to create original and interesting stories that are guaranteed to grip any historical fiction lover.
This is a series I hope he continues with. I hope I’m sat here writing a review for book ten in a few years. I don’t think I could ever get bored with the antics of Amy, Alice and everyone. They are that entertaining to read about.
All in all another superb chapter in the Unspoken series. Looking forward to next one!
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59251676-hopes-and-fears
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Author Bio
T A Belshaw is from Derbyshire in the United Kingdom where he shares a house with his chatty rescue cat, Mia. He writes for both children and adults. A former miner and computer technician, Trevor studied Advanced Creative Writing at the Open University. He is the author of Tracy’s Hot Mail, Tracy’s Celebrity Hot Mail and the noir, suspense novella, Out of Control. Following the sudden death of his wife in 2015 Trevor took a five-year break from writing, returning during lockdown in 2020, when an injury forced him to take time off work. The result of this new creative burst was the Dual Timeline, Family Saga, Unspoken and the Historical Cosy Crime Whodunnit, Murder at the Mill.
Trevor signed his first contract with Spellbound Books Ltd in April 2021. He signed a further mullti-book contract with them in the spring of 2022.
His short stories have been published in various anthologies including 100 Stories for Haiti, 50 Stories for Pakistan, Another Haircut, Shambelurkling and Other Stories, Deck the Halls, 100 Stories for Queensland and The Cafe Lit anthology 2011, 2012 and 2013. He also has two pieces in Shambelurklers Return. 2014
Trevor is also the author of 15 children’s adventure books written under the name of Trevor Forest.
His children’s poem, Clicking Gran, was long listed for the Plough prize (children’s section) in 2009 and his short poem, My Mistake, was rated Highly Commended and published in an anthology of the best entries in the Farringdon Poetry Competition.
Trevor’s articles have been published in magazines as diverse as Ireland’s Own, The Best of British and First Edition.
Follow him at:
Twitter : https://twitter.com/tabelshaw
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/trevorbelshaw
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/T.A.BelshawAuthor
Website : https://trevorbelshaw.com/
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Thank you so much for sharing your review and for taking part on the tour x
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