Family Life Archives

4.5-STAR REVIEW: HUSH LITTLE FIRE by Judith Stiles

Family Life Amy Wilson - 23 March 2026

Publication Date: May 20, 2025 Secrets implode and generations of lies boil over into deadly consequences when a suspicious fire breaks out Christmas Night on Cape Cod. This enthralling and darkly humorous debut novel...

5-STAR REVIEW: AVA by Victoria Dillon REVIEWER’S CHOICE!🏆

Family Life Amy Wilson - 4 March 2026

Publication Date: March 3, 2026 For fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale comes Ava, a provocative blend of speculative fiction and social commentary that takes readers on a gripping, thought-provoking journey into the fight for...

4-STAR REVIEW: MORE THAN ENOUGH by Anna Quindlen

Family Life JoAnne - 24 February 2026

Publication Date: February 24, 2026 A woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test and begins to question the meaning of family and friendship in this wise, tender novel teeming with life—from...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: BOOK OF FORBIDDEN WORDS by Louise Fein

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 17 February 2026

Publication Date: February 17, 2026 From bestselling author Louise Fein comes a new historical novel set in a world of banned books and censorship, in which an encrypted manuscript unleashes a chain of...

5-STAR REVIEW: THIS BOOK MADE ME THINK OF YOU by Libby Page

Contemporary Romance JoAnne - 13 February 2026

Publication Date: February 3, 2026 A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: OUR BEAUTIFUL MESS by Adele Parks

Family Life Amy Wilson - 10 February 2026

Publication Date: February 10, 2026 Number One bestseller Adele Parks returns with an explosive and deeply emotional family drama that explores the lengths a mother will go to protect her family, even if...

5-STAR REVIEW: I WANTED TO BE WONDERFUL by Lihi Lapid REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Family Life Sandy Saucier - 5 February 2026

Publication Date: November 4, 2025 This book begins where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. I WANTED TO BE WONDERFUL follows the lives of two women in their first...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE HIDDEN LETTER AT BLUEBELL FARM by Rebecca Alexander

Family Life Amy Wilson - 28 January 2026

Wildflower Secrets: Book 3 Publication Date: January 28, 2026 As the sun filters through the farmhouse window, Tasha carefully turns over the fragile envelope, sealed for decades. She shivers. Will this letter reveal the...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE LIE SHE TOLD by Emma Robinson

Family Life Amy Wilson - 9 January 2026

Publication Date: January 9, 2026 ‘Natalie, it’s mum. You need to come home. It’s your father…’ Clutching the phone, my hands shaking, my entire world tilts. For years I’ve run from a family...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE WEEKEND CRASHERS by Jamie Brenner

Family Life JoAnne - 2 December 2025

Publication Date: November 4, 2025 A knitting retreat gets knotty in this humorous and poignant novel about love, second chances, and the unyielding bonds between mothers and daughters. Maggie Hodges and her daughter Piper...

5-STAR REVIEW: NO ONE ABOARD by Emy McGuire

Domestic Thriller Amy Wilson - 2 December 2025

Publication Date: December 2, 2025 The White Lotus meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this domestic mystery about a luxury sailboat found floating adrift in the ocean and the secrets of the missing family...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: HEMLOCK LANE by Marshall Fine

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 25 November 2025

Publication Date: November 25, 2025 In this riveting story of family bonds and buried truths, a young woman’s homecoming becomes a reckoning as four days together threaten to shatter the comfortable lies that...