Angie loses her beloved husband Quentin in a freak accident and the rest of the story is about her resilience and journey back to happiness. A well written book with depth of characters.

This was a great story which drew me in right from the start. Some sad bits but also some very happy times. It was a story true to life with some really appealing characters and a beautuiful conclusion.

Another great book from Nancy, very well written and even though the storyline is set in desperate times it was a real pleasure to read. 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley, author and publisher for this ARC

A well written enjoyable book.

Angie lives with her husband Quentin and their daughter, she also has her brothers and sisters living there as she has brought them up. A tragedy befalls the family. Angie’s Mother in law feels she should be the owner of the manor they all live in. We see how Angie copes with the financial difficulties in running a manor. Will Angie overcome adversity only time will tell.

You can read this book stand alone as I have not read the Shipyard series by the same author. I found the characters interesting and worked well together.

Would certainly recommend this book it was very engaging.

November 1949 turns into a devastating time for Angie Foxton- Clarke, losing her beloved husband Quentin suddenly to a tragic accident. Not only has her world been shattered, so too has her beloved little girl and Angie’s siblings.
Angie, a coal miners daughter married her husband Quentin, besotted with each other they were living an idyllic lifestyle, in Cuthford Manor in County Durham. The Manor House resembling a fairytale castle.
Angie doesn’t know how her future lies, she’s a person adrift.

Being from the north east and Durham not far away I was drawn to this book. I found it an easy read, and liked most of the characters, and love and warmth described in the book. I enjoyed reading about the house and its ways, and of course the wonderful landscape of the North East of England. It was also very interesting learning new facts about the area, I love how much I learn on a daily basis through my love of reading.
An amazing new fact I learned was of Wojtek!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Publisher for an advanced e-book copy. Opinions about the book are entirely my own.

A great read.I really enjoyed this book .When Angie loses her husband Quentin in a tragic accident she still has all her siblings and her daughter to look after while struggling with her grief and also has to cope with her manipulative Mother in law who now thinks she should be the owner of Cuthbert Manor now her son has died .A fantastic story with some great characters and a wonderful piece of writing really enjoyed it.

A tragic start to a story, but Angie has so much more life to live. The characters in this story are so vibrant and warm that you just have to keep reading to find out where the author will take you. It was lovely to read a book set in this time and area, I loved the ideas for the village. Some great twists.

Life for Angie has never been better, happily married to her sweetheart and living in his family home, But disaster strikes and her husband is killed. She now has to start again as a widow, with her own young child and her own younger brothers and sisters as their parents and left them. She has to start again.

A well written book lots of problems, and a home someone else feels she should not be allowed to live in, and tries to get rid on the problem.

Absolute loved this book, extremely well written, i was totally immersed in the story and I didn’t want it to end.
I would definitely recommend such a good read.

I had not read any of the Shipyard Girls series, so this author was new to me. However I thoroughly enjoyed it as a stand- alone family saga, set in the not too distant past, post- war years. The characters were well woven into the fabric of the story, each was a well- rounded character, which I really liked.
The story was one of brief happiness of Angie and Quentin, then tragedy, sadness, confusion, and eventually happiness again. Our protagonist Angie struggles to find a way through her own grief, and to do what is best for her expanded family of younger siblings, small daughter, in- laws and much loved staff of the ‘big house’ with a few mis- steps along the way.
Well written and engaging, I may well go back to read some other titles in the Shipyard Girls series.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance copy of this book. I recommend it.

Thank you Netgalley and the Publisher. I really enjoyed this good old fashioned read. the storyline and the characters were great

A amazing book. A great saga Which I loved. Would recommend this author to people. I already hope there's more to come
5*****

Having read all the Shipyard Girls books I was so looking forward to this one and I have loved reading about Dorothy and Quinton and their lives since the war ended. I don't want to spoil the book for readers so will say it was very emotional you cry, laugh get angry and hate some people. Nancy Revell always writes lovely books and it was lovely to read this one.

This is the first book that I have read by Nancy Revell and I must say that I really enjoyed it.
Angie, a miners daughter, had been a welder in her native County Durham when she met and fell hopelessly in love with wealthy Quentin Foxton Clarke, their all encompassing love led to marriage and Angie, along with her younger siblings, moved into Cuthford Manor.
Life was idyllic, Angie felt that she didn't belong at the Manor but Quentin's love and encouragement soon eased her discomfort. Also living at the Manor were her in laws, Evelyn and the long suffering Lloyd Foxton Clark, Lloyd was easy going and he put up with the snobby, arrogant Evelyn, Evelyn was incandescent with rage when her only son married far beneath him, Cuthford Manor should have been hers, she had worked for it, she deserved it and she would do anything to regain it but her brother in law had left it to Quentin and now the miners daughter, the welder was mistress of the house, Evelyn seethed and planed, she would bide her time.
When a fatal accident occurred leaving Angie a widow her life was in tatters, Evelyn was ready to start her fight but she didn't make allowances for the indomitable courage and determination of the miner's daughter.
Angie had support and help from many quarters, the wonderful staff at the Manor, the local community, a group of travelling Gypsies and a Polish soldier who had fought with the British army. Could Angie ever lay the ghost of the past to rest, could she ever love again.
This is a very moving, emotional story of love and greed , the differences between to top and the bottom of the social ladder , a well written book.
I received a free copy of this book and my review is voluntary.

The story is set at the time just after the end of WWII when the barriers between class snd sex were crumbling together with the onset of women’s lib. It focuses on a rural country mansion where the Lord of the Manor had left everything to his grandson not as expected to his son and heir much to the disappointment of his daughter in law whose rage is compounded by her son marrying a common coalminers daughter. The son and wife are a loving couple with her bringing to the a marriage a motley family of four children, siblings and strays that she had brought up. When her husband dies, she consumed with grief planning to sell up and immigrate but is thwarted when she finds that no one would buy a manor with crumbling assets that is in an area with no economic future. How she steels herself to save the manor house and the nearby village while her mother in law secretly plots to get rid of her makes a complex domestic drama.

This is the first book I have read by Nancy Revell, and so I have no 'background' of her shipyard series. The Widow's Choice is therefore a stand-alone read for me. Note that this review contains spoilers.

Set just after WWII, it's the story of Angie, a miner's daughter from Sunderland, who has married a local land owner and moved into his large grand estate house. Also in the house are her brothers and sisters, her toddler daughter, and her parents-in-law, as well as various staff members of the house and stable yard.

The story lurches from one terrible disaster to another, beginning with a fatal accident involving a big horse, and Angie must make choices which will involve her family and the estate. Alongside that run the stories of an elderly Polish lady who also lives with them, and of the 'evil' mother-in-law Evelyn. Oh, and the local Travellers gypsy group. And the Polish soldier from another estate. And the mother of yet another estate who hopes her son will marry the young widow. Plus the 'mams' from the local nursery. In fact, the book teems with characters.

This is a lightly historical, light romance, and by the time the handsome Polish solder arrives it is fairly obvious where it's going. He heroically rescues the family from the huge house fire, and the reader will inevitably know what happens next. There are of course ups and downs along the way, twists and turns to the plot and in Angie's decision making.

The book is an undemanding gentle and easy read; there are no torrid sex scenes nor modern swearing. I would happily give it to my mother to read and I think she would really enjoy it! Personally I would prefer a meatier book with a wider vocabulary. But I did enjoy it and read it fairly quickly. However I am not tempted to read any others in the series.

With thanks to the publishers and the author for the ARC.

The widows choice, by Nancy Revell, what a fantastic read, I was hooked from the first page right through to the last one, in fact I stayed up until 2am to finish it because I just couldn’t put it down. A great story of love and betrayal with lots of twists thrown in to keep you reading. I’m not sure if this is a follow to a series but I have read it as stand alone, although I will be purchasing the shipyard girls as I enjoyed this book so much. Well deserved 5⭐️ and I would give it more if I could.

Historical drama a spin off from the shipyard series featuring Quentin and Angie. A great deal of heartbreak and soul searching and much drama. A great read.

Another delightful novel from Nancy! I could just sit down all day and get lost in her novels if I had the time! I find all her tales of the Shipyard girls in the 1940’s captivating and brilliantly observed. Angie feels she has married above her station and that others feel the same, but life never seems to run smoothly. She has married Quentin and as has moved into Cuthford Manor along with her siblings that she is mothering as her mother ran off and her father does not keep in touch.

A wonderful story and a real page turner. I was hooked from beginning to end. I loved the characters. Angie was a wonderful character facing life after the tragic accident that happened to Quentin. Heart breaking and heart warming in equal measure. I look forward to further books from Nancy.