- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: Authors Online Ltd (20 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755204840
- ISBN-13: 978-0755204847
- Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,442,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. Ella is intrigued by this glamorous, fashionable woman and hopes she holds the key to many unanswered questions about her childhood. However, living in the Carpenter household does not turn out to be the idyllic experience Mel has promised her daughter. Scheming and manipulative she has specific plans for Ella. Plans which do not include boyfriend Niall O'Farrell left behind in the village where she grew up with her grandparents, or the university place she hopes for. After Ella loses Niall to her best friend and her career aspirations have been trimmed to a college course, ambitious Mel puts her main plan into action - finding her daughter a wealthy boyfriend. In doing this, she is looking for a marriage which will give her the right connections and help her own social advancement in the town. But Mel's plan stalls when on a cold January evening, local nightclub owner's son Matt Benedict unexpectedly walks into Ella's life. Ella knows she will have to fight to stay with Matt, branded as most unsuitable by her mother; but it is not just Mel she is up against. Matt's mother Faye has her own reasons for parting them, as does Andy Macayne, the rich, self-indulgent young man Mel hopes her daughter will eventually marry. WHEN TOMORROW COMES is the first book in the Behind Blue Eyes Trilogy. Ella and Matt's journey is about to begin.........
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Audrey Hawkins, who writes as Joanna Lambert lives on the outskirts of Bath. This is the first book of her Behind Blue Eyes Trilogy
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I was completely absorbed in the life and goings on surrounding Meridan Cross from the beginning. Jo Lambert writes intricate people, families with secrets and fantastic plots all wrapped up in wonderful description of town and countryside. The prose will put you slap bang in the middle of the 1960s and you will quickly become involved with the leading characters and love them or loathe them - you will want to find out more.
I really enjoyed this novel. The pace was just right and you feel you know these characters because of the beautiful way Jo Lambert brings them to life. It reminded me very much of the style of Barbara Taylor-Bradford, Josephine Cox or Catherine Cookson with a slightly more modern flavour. Although it is set in the Sixties the relationships and dilemmas could easily be going on today and fans of more modern fiction should really give this a read.
I will be going on to read the next two books in the trilogy because I must see how the characters progress!
I really enjoyed this novel. The pace was just right and you feel you know these characters because of the beautiful way Jo Lambert brings them to life. It reminded me very much of the style of Barbara Taylor-Bradford, Josephine Cox or Catherine Cookson with a slightly more modern flavour. Although it is set in the Sixties the relationships and dilemmas could easily be going on today and fans of more modern fiction should really give this a read.
I will be going on to read the next two books in the trilogy because I must see how the characters progress!
Format:Paperback
When tomorrow comes is the first book in The Blue Eyes trilogy written by Joanne Lambert.
Ella Kendrick is an 18-year-old girl in 1965 living with her beloved Grandparents, Peggy and Richard, in Meridan Cross with her brother Nick. This is following the death of their Father and the disappearance of their mother 11 years previous. Peggy never got over her daughter just up and leaving and was haunted by the whole experience. One tragic day these images cause Peggy have an accident that changes Ella's life as she knows it.
Melissa, the glamorous mother of Nick and Ella just walks back into their lives in 1967 with a her new husband Liam in toe. Ella is desperate to get to know the Mother she thought she would never see again, is so taken by the glamorous woman who, when the opportunity to go and live in Abbotsbridge with her and Liam is presented Ella jumps at the chance but much to the sadness of her Grandfather and brother.
Little does Ella know that her Mother has other plans for her life that don't include her being able to go to University to train as Vet or her keeping her boyfriend Niall O'Farrell. Leaving him free to walk straight into the arms of what was once her best friend Rachel.
Can Ella get her life back on track? Will any man she meets be high enough on the Social ladder to please her Mother? Will Mel ever put her children before herself?
Joanna has written a lovely story weaving through many lives in the beautiful settings of the Somerset countryside in the mid 60's. It's lovely to see how friendships grow but also how simple misunderstandings can spiral out of control especially with the lack of technical communication equipment. How the devil did people survive in the 60's without mobile phones?!?! (what is a phone box? - ok kidding about that bit!)
I really loved the character Ella, I felt her joy but also her woe's of heartbreak. She is desperate for her Mother's love and will do all she can to please her. I think we will see her continue to see her grow into a strong and very lovely woman. Whilst I have mentioned Ella a great deal in this review, Joanne has also introduced a great mix of other people, some which I really liked other not so much and set the scene perfectly in the first book to hold the reader's attention ready for parts two and three. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into them now.
Thank you Joanna for sending me a copy of this book.
Ella Kendrick is an 18-year-old girl in 1965 living with her beloved Grandparents, Peggy and Richard, in Meridan Cross with her brother Nick. This is following the death of their Father and the disappearance of their mother 11 years previous. Peggy never got over her daughter just up and leaving and was haunted by the whole experience. One tragic day these images cause Peggy have an accident that changes Ella's life as she knows it.
Melissa, the glamorous mother of Nick and Ella just walks back into their lives in 1967 with a her new husband Liam in toe. Ella is desperate to get to know the Mother she thought she would never see again, is so taken by the glamorous woman who, when the opportunity to go and live in Abbotsbridge with her and Liam is presented Ella jumps at the chance but much to the sadness of her Grandfather and brother.
Little does Ella know that her Mother has other plans for her life that don't include her being able to go to University to train as Vet or her keeping her boyfriend Niall O'Farrell. Leaving him free to walk straight into the arms of what was once her best friend Rachel.
Can Ella get her life back on track? Will any man she meets be high enough on the Social ladder to please her Mother? Will Mel ever put her children before herself?
Joanna has written a lovely story weaving through many lives in the beautiful settings of the Somerset countryside in the mid 60's. It's lovely to see how friendships grow but also how simple misunderstandings can spiral out of control especially with the lack of technical communication equipment. How the devil did people survive in the 60's without mobile phones?!?! (what is a phone box? - ok kidding about that bit!)
I really loved the character Ella, I felt her joy but also her woe's of heartbreak. She is desperate for her Mother's love and will do all she can to please her. I think we will see her continue to see her grow into a strong and very lovely woman. Whilst I have mentioned Ella a great deal in this review, Joanne has also introduced a great mix of other people, some which I really liked other not so much and set the scene perfectly in the first book to hold the reader's attention ready for parts two and three. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into them now.
Thank you Joanna for sending me a copy of this book.
Format:Paperback
This is the first book in the trilogy and the story starts of in 1967. Ella Kendrick is living in a village with her Grandparents. She falls in love with farmer's son Niall O'Farrell. Ella plans to go to University to study to become a vet. When her Grandmother is killed in a tragic accident. Mel her mother who abandoned Ella eleven years ago returns. Ella wanting to get to know her mother better goes to live with her mother and stepfather Liam. However her mum wants to take control over Ella's life and wants to marry her off into a rich family, for her own agenda to increase her own social status in the town. So Ella's career plans are changed by her manipulating mother and after losing Niall love she ends up doing a secretarial course at college. But Ella meets what her mother would call an unsuitable man Matt Benedict and they fall in love. But can their love survive when they have both Mel and Matt's mother Faye trying to stop them from been together and Andy Macayne the young rich man Mel would much prefer her daughter to marry.
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Totally absorbing world
Although the synopsis starts from 1967, the story begins in a `world' that is the foundation and sets the scene, which starts in 1965. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Shazjera
Wonderful Read
First off I have to admit I'm a 60s junkie. I love the British TV programs Heartbeat and The Royal so the fact that Joanna Lambert's book takes me back there was a bonus. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Melanie King
Cracking Good Story
I have been gripped from page one by the characters from Meridan Cross & Abbotsbridge and would thoroughly recommend this book. Read more
Published 11 months ago by L. Holdway
When Tomorrow Comes
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the author has truly reflected the essence of the 60's. I followed Ella's story with great interest and it evoked many memories of that era. Read more
Published 11 months ago by JacquiW
A First on Two Counts!
This was my first purchase on my new Kindle. Neither disappointed. Joanna's tale is a rollercoaster ride of life in rural England in the 1960s. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mrs. S. C. Dyer
A wonderful saga and love story
I won't rehash the storyline, as other reviewers have already covered that. What I will say is that I loved following Ella's story, as she grows up in the West Country in the... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Glamour Girl
A great novel
Set in the West Country in a rural location, this book is as good to read as 'The Archers' is to listen to ! Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2010 by J. Klinpikuln
A Great Read!
When Tomorrow Comes, is the kind of book that you just want to sit down and not get up until you have read the last page. The book is well written and the characters are so real. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2010 by Pauline
A Really Great Read!
This book is a real page turner, couldn't put it down! The characters are well rounded and the plot never flags. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2010 by Andrea Haskins
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