Book: Journey’s End by Josephine Cox

Bought for charity, this is another one attained on the last day of opening of my beloved Brewsmiths café. The title seemed appropriate. I’ve never read any of the author’s books before and it was only when I got to the end that I learn this is the fourth in a series. Based in the 1950s, I’m drawn in straight away as we start in village in Bedfordshire, my home county. Although pretty quickly the story moves to Liverpool and eventually, Boston, the glamour of which I found myself appreciating after the doldrums of a grey northern UK city.The book centres around single parent Lucy Baker who has a grown-up daughter, whose father died while she was young. They reside in Salford in rural Bedfordshire but are originally from Liverpool, hence the elements coming from there, along with the deep dark secrets.This is a book of many characters spread across the three locations. In Boston is Lucy’s old friend Vicky who moved to America after her first husband suddenly decided he didn’t want her, their three children or the loving home they’d created together anymore.One of my favourite storylines is of Adam. He has remained a loyal buddy to Lucy despite her not marrying him. It strikes me that in 1950s, a married woman whose husband disappears then had a child with another man – her one true love who dies – has a close but platonic 20 year relationship with an eligible man may stoke a little bit of controversy. It strikes me as odd that there is no mention of it. Everyone loves Lucy and she is extremely likeable. In fact there is only one unlikable (and evil) character in the bookIt took me a while to warm to it but as is a sign of good book, at the end, I wished I’d read the other three first.7½/10@RickieWrites