Sunshine and Showers

Victoria Crescent Sagas #5

by June Francis

Now the war is over, is happiness within their reach?Two women are given opportunities for a positive future, but must choose between following their heads or their hearts. Patsy Doyle is glad of her new job as a live-in maid in for David Tanner and his wife, but the constant rows between the spouses make it difficult to settle. Patsy becomes an unwilling confidante - and keeper of more secrets than she'd care to know. Joy Kirk is busy planning her wedding. Since her first love was killed in the Great War, she has accepted that she'd never fall in love again. Now, having spent many years working as Robbie Bennett's housekeeper, she finally accepts his proposal of marriage. She soon realises she has let herself in for more than she bargained for. Both Joy and Patsy will face unexpected fortunes. But will they ultimately find happiness?

334 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2009

About the author

Although, June was born in the seaside resort of Blackpool, she has lived all her life in the port of Liverpool, home of the Beatles. One of four children, her love of stories began when her father told her 'The Little Match Girl', which left her in floods of tears, but also with a desire to make up stories, herself. As soon as she could read she was doing a three mile walk to the local library. She passed the scholarship to Liverpool Girls' College where her English teacher told her that she had a great imagination. Despite this, June did not believe she could ever be an author, so on leaving school, she became a cash clerk. She married at twenty-two, has three sons, ran a church playgroup for ten years and it wasn't until her youngest started school that she joined a Writers' Club and turned her hand to writing articles about What She Knew for a woman's magazine. But her first love had always been books and eventually she wrote her first two medieval romances for Mills & Boon. After doing another two, she had an urge to write a family story set in Liverpool during WWII. This was bought by another publisher. Since then she has had thirty-three books published.

Reviews

[Kathleen Motteler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!

A wonderful ending to the Victoria Crescent Saga. Following the previous books, it was filled with twists and turns, mystery, and love stories.

[MrsJean B Lloyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this series

I started this series by accident and to be honest I didn’t regret it for a minute . I have loved every book in the Victoria Crescent Saga series . I loved the connection with Chester my home town or City as it actually is . I really don’t want the series to end

[mois reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Books

Well I've enjoyed all the books from this saga well written every book with a mystery and a romance well worth 5 stars

[Bernadette Firth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant read, love this author's work

The author made this book an enjoyable read can't wait to read more. The characters are great and believable fantastic read

[chlorinda naish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Relationships

A story away from the likes of Bert, as the other 4 sagas,one of hardship and pain, love and relationships, intermingling with lots of children and happiness.

[Sarah Romain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy beach read. Not great substance.

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found book five in the series not as good as the other four. Still an enjoyable read though.

[Rowlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed this historical romance. The lives and loves of people post first Earvin Liverpool.

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Victoria crescent series has been amazing to read can’t stop reading each time came to the end I’d start the next
It’s a must read by June Francis

[Sammi Heslop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

[Mikayla H · Rating 4 out of 5]

The novel 'Sunshine and Showers' is one with many character's who's lives all intertwine the majority of the story is fairly predictable; until in the end when a surprises arise. This story is based post world war one and is about the hardships of lower class in the time. It talks of the effect the war had on a few people of different classes who all suffered in different ways.

It is a romantic and family based novel which is suitable for ages from 15 years and older as their are some underlying adult themes. It was a fantastic read and I found it difficult to put down. Highly recommended!

See more reviews and an overview of this book at my blog:
http://shelvedtbrb.blogspot.com.au

[Chery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book review is for all 5 Saga books.

I loved all the characters. Alice had me a little crazy on the last 2 books but the story had me wanting to know what happened to the next character introduced which kept me intrigued until the fifth book.

I personally would of liked more of the hocus-pocus but that's just my 5c.

Definitely reading more of June Francis

[Juliana Graham · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few too many characters and a few too many tidy coincidences spoilt this book for me. Everything was just a little bit too convenient and also quite predictable - a book that I plodded through and whilst I didn't dislike it, i didn't look forward to picking it up.

[Gill · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thought it was going to be a really good book but about two thirds of the way through I started to get bored, lost track of who some of the characters were and it all got a bit predictable. I did enjoy the first half or so though!

[Xondra Day · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've enjoyed a couple of books by this author, but this wasn't one of them.

The story meandered back and forth between quite a few characters. It was very mundane with little excitement or anything to push the story forward. At best it was an okay read.

[Erin Paech · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book down.. I love these type of books.. It just made me wanna keep reading after I finished it..