#BlogTour: Blackpool’s Daughter by Maggie Mason @Authormary @LittleBrownUK @littlebookcafe #BlackpoolDaughter #hisfic #ww2 #5Stars

Good morning everyone I’m pleased to finally share my review for Blackpool’s Daughter by Maggie Mason (Mary Wood) today. My original post was rescheduled due to it being Easter Sunday.

Mary is running a giveaway for this tour for a signed copy of this book. All you have to do is comment below to be entered into the draw! Just make sure you leave your twitter handle too ( if you’re on twitter) so she can contact you.

Before I share my review with you here is a little bit about the book.

Book Synopsis:

England, 1940

Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey, leaving her mother Julia behind. She’s scared and alone, but her spirits lift a little when she learns she’s headed for Blackpool.

Her slight hopes are crushed however when she is housed with and at the mercy of a cruel shopkeeper, Miss Brandon. Clara is worked like a dog, but the warmth of some newly made Blackpool friendships will go far to save her.

Separated from her beloved daughter, Julia heads to London to try and track Clara down but she is thwarted at every turn. With no idea where her daughter is, and the trials of war keeping them far apart, will they ever be reunited?

The perfect read for fans of Mary Wood, Kitty Neale, Val Wood and Nadine Dorries

Blackpool’s daughter is available in ebook and paperback now. The ebook is currently only 99p. Purchase your copy of both using the link below.

My Review:

I’m a big fan of this author so I was incredibly excited ( I might even have had a small dance around the living room) to be invited onto the blog tour for her latest book.

I was utterly gripped from the start with the descriptions of life on Gurnsey for Clara and Julia. I felt that the way the residents treated her was very unfair and this made me instantly warm to both of them. The love that the two of them obviously have for each other was lovely to read about and helped make the story of their separation from each other very emotional.

The story is told from both Clara’s and Julia’s point of view in alternate chapters which made for very interesting reading. It was very sad to read about the hard time Clara was having and the mind boggles that evacuated children weren’t kept an eye on. Julia’s desperation to try and find her daughter was almost palpable at times and I really felt for her as she tirelessly tried to find Clara.

This was a compelling, absorbing read which I so enjoyed. Once again the author has managed to write a fantastic historical and emotional story which pulls at the reader’s heart strings. I went through a range of emotions whilst reading, crying and laughing along with the characters as I followed their story. The writing is brilliant and manages to transport the reader into the story so that they feel they are there alongside the characters experiencing everything alongside them.

This is the second book in the Blackpool series but it’s a completely different setting and story so it can easily be read as a standalone. I absolutely love this series and can’t wait for the next one!

Huge thanks to Mary Wood for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Sphere for sending me a copy of this book.

About The Author:

Maggie Mason is a pseudonym of author Mary Wood. Mary began her career by self-publishing on kindle where many of her sagas reached number one in genre. She was spotted by Pan Macmillan and to date has written many books for them under her own name, with more to come.

Mary continues to be proud to write for Pan Macmillan, but is now equally proud and thrilled to take up a second career with Sphere under the name of Maggie Mason. A Blackpool Lass is her first in a planned series of standalone books and trilogies set in her home town of Blackpool.

Born the thirteenth child of fifteen children, Mary describes her childhood as poor, but rich in love. 
She was educated at St Peter’s RC School in Hinckley and at Hinckley College for Further Education, where she was taught shorthand and typing.

Mary retired from working for the National Probation Service in 2009, when she took up full time writing, something she’d always dreamed of doing. She follows in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, Dora Langlois, who was an acclaimed author, playwright and actress in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century.

It was her work with the Probation Service that gives Mary’s writing its grittiness, her need to tell it how it is, which takes her readers on an emotional journey to the heart of issues.

Blog Tour:

This is the last day of the blog tour but do go back and read these fantastic bloggers reviews!