Cornflower Blues 2010 - part 2: a fine romance

     Three romantic novels make up my next batch of books of the year, all of them warm, witty, elegant - books to which to escape:

    Rosy Thornton's The Tapestry of Love was a highlight of my summer reading, Diane Meier's The Season of Second Chances was one of the most accomplished debuts I've read, while Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches is a love story with a difference! Read any one and you'll feel you're in safe hands; their characters are appealing, their plots well-paced and punctuated with both the dramatic and the sort of everyday, domestic detail I enjoy, and within their pages that elusive balance of art and craft is expertly achieved.