Family Life Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: WHEN LEMONS GIVE YOU LIFE by Anna Johnston

Family Life Amy Wilson - 30 July 2026

Publication Date: April 28, 2026 Retired Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow has lost his appetite. He's done with grief, guilt, and the beige slop they call food at Sunny Glen Aged Care Facility, where...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE STORY KEEPER by Kelly Rimmer REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Mystery Tierney Linton - 21 July 2026

Publication Date: August 27, 2025 The literary twist of Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea meets the family secrets of Kate Morton’s Homecoming when a woman discovers a curious novel in the library of...

4-STAR REVIEW: PEOPLE WATCHING IN THE DESERT by Cali Adeline

Family Life Amy Wilson - 15 July 2026

Publication Date: July 14, 2026 A funny and big-hearted novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, about a lonely young woman who prefers to observe the world rather than participate...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE HOUSE OF PEARLS by Ali Mercer

Family Life Amy Wilson - 13 July 2026

Publication Date: July 10, 2026 A photograph of three young sisters. A forgotten pearl necklace that sends her tumbling through time… Present day: single mother Elsa Dean is shocked when she inherits a sprawling three-storey house from...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE GOOD MOTHER TEST by Michael R. French REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Family Life Amy Wilson - 10 July 2026

Publication Date: February 23, 2026 When Emily, a bright but impulsive UCLA student, gives birth to her daughter Violet, she vows to be the kind of mother she never had: endlessly loving, fiercely...

4-STAR REVIEW: MEET ME AT THE SEASIDE COTTAGES by Jenny Colgan

Family Life Amy Wilson - 15 June 2026

Scottish Island of Mure: Book 6 Publication Date: June 16, 2026 This summer, escape to the Seaside Cottages in the Scottish isles with this delightful mother-daughter story about second chances in love, life, and...

5-STAR REVIEW: ALL THE LITTLE WAYS by Laura Lekkos

Family Life Amy Wilson - 10 June 2026

Publication Date: June 9, 2026 In the vein of Pineapple Street and Such a Fun Age, a smart, heartfelt debut novel about two expecting mothers navigating motherhood, family life, and female friendship, whose bond is threatened...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE RETURN OF THE NISH by Tyson Stewart

Family Life Peggy K - 5 June 2026

Publication Date: June 6, 2026 As I watched my father stand in court, guilty and alone, I realized I was seeing him as a man for the first time. Gerry Smith grew up fifty-five...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE RAINY DAY BOOKSHOP by RaeAnne Thayne

Family Life Amy Wilson - 2 June 2026

Publication Date: June 1, 2026 Life is full of plot twists... Sandwiched between caring for her mother and rebuilding the relationship with her estranged daughter, Emma, Rosie Lucas’s life is full. In the best...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE FRAGILE BREATH by Sharon V. Agar REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Family Life Amy Wilson - 13 May 2026

Publication Date: May 12, 2026 Based on a true story, this heartwarming and often humorous story follows a fortysomething New Yorker as she uproots her entire life in pursuit of a cure after...

5-STAR REVIEW: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME by Jean Trounstine

Family Life Peggy K - 12 May 2026

Publication Date: May 12, 2026 Sounds Like Trouble to Me sheds light on what happens when a corrections officer kills her abusive husband and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE SUPPER CLUB SAINTS by Claire Swinarski

Family Life Amy Wilson - 4 May 2026

Publication Date: May 5, 2026 A dynamic, honest, and beautifully written novel about a young mother who returns to her small—town Wisconsin home after living in a cult—like “Mommune,” and what happens with...