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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I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
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I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.