When Tomorrow Comes by Joanna Lambert.

When Tomorrow Comes (Authors Online, 2009)…

Review by Laura Parish.

‘1967: When eighteen year old Ella Kendrick moves to the Somerset town of Abbotsbridge to live with her mother Melissa and stepfather Liam, she is looking forward to getting to know someone who has been absent from her life for eleven years. However, living in the Carpenter household doesn’t turn out to be the idyllic experience Mel promised her daughter. 

After Ella also loses her boyfriend to her best friend and career aspirations have been trimmed to a college course, ambitious Mel puts her main plan into action – finding her daughter a wealthy boyfriend. But Mel’s plans stall when, on a cold January evening, Ella meets Matt.’ 

Novel Kicks’ verdict: 

You really begin a journey with the characters at the beginning of this book and although it’s the beginning of a trilogy resulting in a lot of character introduction and development, it doesn’t take long to be right in the middle of the lives being lived by the people in this book.

Ella is a warm character but I have to say, I had a soft spot for Jenny and Issy too. The three worked well together. Very nice, strong female characters and Mel who you love to hate. I’m intrigued to see what she will do next. There were also nice, likeable heroes in the story too. Lambert does capture the scene around the characters well. I imagined a wonderful 60’s backdrop which included mentions of music (which I love.)

Also, thanks to a sneak peek at Love, Lies and Promises’ at the end of this book, Joanna makes sure that you’ll want to put down this book and get going as quickly as possible on the next one, which picks up where the first one left off.

A very worthwhile read.

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Laura

I’m Laura. I started Novel Kicks in 2009. I wanted a place to post my writing as well as give other writers like me the opportunity to do the same. There is also a monthly book club, a writing room which features writing prompts, book reviews, competitions, author interviews and guest posts.

I grew up by the sea (my favourite place in the world) and I currently live in Hampshire. I am married to Chris, have a cat named Buddy and I would love to be a writer. I’m trying to write the novel I’ve talked so much about writing if only I could stop pressing delete. I’ve loved writing since creative writing classes in primary school. I have always wanted to see my teacher Miss Sayers again and thank her for the encouragement. When not trying to write the novel or writing snippets of stories on anything I can get my hands on, I love reading, dancing like a loon and singing to myself very badly. My current obsession is Once Upon a Time and I would be happy to live with magic in the enchanted forest surrounded by all those wonderful stories provided that world also included Harry Potter. I love reading chick lit. contemporary fiction and novels with mystery.