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Pearls
For career-driven Kate Burrows, life is pretty much perfect: great job, fab flat and a gorgeous guy to share it all with. With every box on her checklist ticked, Kate thinks she’s happily in control of her own destiny… until the troubled past she’s tried so hard to suppress threatens to sabotage everything she holds dear.
Stuck in a rut of useless boyfriends and growing debt, odd-jobber Charlie Hanford desperately wants a new life, but self-doubt holds her back. Then one day Charlie gets a job cleaning a stylish seafront flat in Brighton…
Meanwhile, B&B owner Miriam Greene’s only wish is to put the past behind her once and for all. For despite her transformation – from alcoholic train wreck to teetotal meditation teacher – Miriam has yet to gain the forgiveness of her daughter.
Charlie dusts and hoovers, envying the life she glimpses once a week. But when she discovers one of her employer’s unwanted birthday presents – a basket of handwritten mantras – fate brings the three women together.
A book about women, friendship and self-love.
Stuck in a rut of useless boyfriends and growing debt, odd-jobber Charlie Hanford desperately wants a new life, but self-doubt holds her back. Then one day Charlie gets a job cleaning a stylish seafront flat in Brighton…
Meanwhile, B&B owner Miriam Greene’s only wish is to put the past behind her once and for all. For despite her transformation – from alcoholic train wreck to teetotal meditation teacher – Miriam has yet to gain the forgiveness of her daughter.
Charlie dusts and hoovers, envying the life she glimpses once a week. But when she discovers one of her employer’s unwanted birthday presents – a basket of handwritten mantras – fate brings the three women together.
A book about women, friendship and self-love.
- GenresChick Lit
248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 16, 2012
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About the author
Tasha Harrison
7 books14 followersI write comedy for kids and young adults. Clementine Florentine (UCLan 2022) is a middle grade comedy with a punk & poetry flavour, and The Thing About Lemons (UCLan 2023) is a YA romcom set in the French countryside in summertime. Another teen romcom is in the pipeline, so watch this space…
My self-published novels aren't currently available for purchase, although they might return, refreshed and updated, at some point in the future.
I live on the south coast of the UK, with my husband, two children and an over-excited Labrador called Arnie.
My self-published novels aren't currently available for purchase, although they might return, refreshed and updated, at some point in the future.
I live on the south coast of the UK, with my husband, two children and an over-excited Labrador called Arnie.
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January 24, 2013
I absolutely loved this book. It's full of characters that seem like real people. The author has done a wonderful job of letting us into their hearts and minds. It's women's fiction with an edge. I enjoyed the storyline and found that I stayed interested in the characters and wanted to know what would happen to them.
Charlie is single, looking for Mr. Right; she finds someone in time for Valentine's Day, but is he The One?
Kate is driven by her career and a painful past; she is jeopardising the one thing that can possibly save her: her relationship with Gary. Can she make peace with her past?
Miriam has finally found herself, but needs to make peace with her daughter after neglecting her for most of her childhood.
This is a story about people who have lost their way, but also a story about how they find themselves. The underlying message being it's never too late to make the changes that can heal the wounds of the past.
There are serious subjects in this book, including alcoholism, eating disorders, neglect, abuse, and divorce; but it's not a dark book. It's very entertaining, and I would say, inspirational. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who likes to get lost in a good story.
Charlie is single, looking for Mr. Right; she finds someone in time for Valentine's Day, but is he The One?
Kate is driven by her career and a painful past; she is jeopardising the one thing that can possibly save her: her relationship with Gary. Can she make peace with her past?
Miriam has finally found herself, but needs to make peace with her daughter after neglecting her for most of her childhood.
This is a story about people who have lost their way, but also a story about how they find themselves. The underlying message being it's never too late to make the changes that can heal the wounds of the past.
There are serious subjects in this book, including alcoholism, eating disorders, neglect, abuse, and divorce; but it's not a dark book. It's very entertaining, and I would say, inspirational. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who likes to get lost in a good story.
July 2, 2018
There are some books where the story or the characters or the writing book you from the first few pages. This wasn't one of them but the book really free on me as I got into it and as the threads came together. The characters seemed real and the writing very natural but good quality. Tasha Harrison acknowledged the help of Dorothy Koomson and I could see certain similarities.
A worthwhile read.
A worthwhile read.
December 28, 2022
A little preachy at times, but I liked the characters, and it was a good read while recovering from the flu (4.5 stars).
June 26, 2013
I come across some lovely finds from free ebooks on Amazon for my Kindle and this was one of them.
The writing was flawless with no editing problems (usually rife in ebooks!).
I loved the story - I think a lot of people could relate to it, myself included. I would have liked to have read more about Miriam's road to enlightenment as that would have been even more relateable for me, but I still loved it. I plan to read Tasha Harrison's other books.
The writing was flawless with no editing problems (usually rife in ebooks!).
I loved the story - I think a lot of people could relate to it, myself included. I would have liked to have read more about Miriam's road to enlightenment as that would have been even more relateable for me, but I still loved it. I plan to read Tasha Harrison's other books.
May 12, 2013
Pearls is a story that entwines the lives of three women, each with 'issues', Fate has ideas of what to do with them.
I enjoyed the characters, who were believable, where many readers could relate.
I don't give spoilers, but will say that it has a reasonable plot and was a satisfying read.
Worth a look.
I enjoyed the characters, who were believable, where many readers could relate.
I don't give spoilers, but will say that it has a reasonable plot and was a satisfying read.
Worth a look.
May 24, 2016
:-( I've finished
That's me read all the books in a week.
I've now got nothing left to read.
What an amazing author and I'm desperate to read more.
This book was brilliant, some twists that made me keep reading more.
That's me read all the books in a week.
I've now got nothing left to read.
What an amazing author and I'm desperate to read more.
This book was brilliant, some twists that made me keep reading more.
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