Roadhouse Sun - Ryan Bingham

Advantages: Interesting Person
Disadvantages: none

...Charlotte Bingham. Charlotte was born in Haywards Heath , her actual memories was not particularly there in West Sussex but at her grandparents home in Ireland where she was taken to by her Nanny when she was about three it was Bangor Castle in North Ireland. So this was where she had remembered mostly and also the influence of several of her novels where there settings were in large country houses. Her schooling was first of all in London then to a small school where she was born from the age of 6-16 years of age which was in the Sussex Downs which became an important part of her life particularly as she found she loved the sea and several of her books included the sea as well as the countryside. When she was sixteen she went to Paris and stayed on the Left Bank with a French family who were French aristocrats to learn... Read review

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Advantages: Pleasant, good characters, well written, satisfactory ending
Disadvantages: Some incongruencies, too many characters

...'The Moon at Midnight' is set in the 1960s, and starts by introducing the various families involved in the book, at the time of the Cuban crisis. The families all live in a British fishing port called Bexham. I was two at the time of the crisis, so don't have any memory of this, but the tension in everyone's minds becomes vividly clear at the beginning of the book, as we see the different ways that people are dealing with the possibility of another world war. Charlotte Bingham has quite a gift with characters - she creates mostly realistic individuals, and clearly knows them well. She writes about them as if she's personally acquainted with them; at one point I wondered if some of them were even based on real people. However the problem with having such a good background in an author's mind is that it can be overwhelming... Read review

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Advantages: Thick and Smooth
Disadvantages: May only be found 'Up North'

...Looking back on my childhood, I remember my mum giving me 'potted meat' sandwiches, which were my favorite for as long as I can recall. I grew up just around the corner from the Bingham's factory in Sheffield. and passed it almost every day on my way to school. I am only 22 now, but i'm sure 'potted meat' is a fond memory of many generations, as Binghams have been making Beef spread from the same Sheffield factory since 1914. I always thought of 'potted meat' as some sort of local delicacy - perhaps in the same way as Henderson's Relish, made from the same factory in Sheffield for over 100 years. I'm still not sure if this delicious meat paste has made it out of Yorkshire - If you've never seen it, and ever travel to Sheffield, I'd strongly reccomend you buy some. I'm not a big fan of the kind of sandwich paste that comes in a little... Read review

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