Good evening everyone. I'm coming to you a bit later today after having the most brilliant weekend. (It's taken me 3 days to recover!). On Friday, having dropped Hattie off with her grandparents we travelled to Manchester to see Peter Kay.

For those of you not familiar with Peter Kay, he is a comedian from Bolton in the North of England who does the most wonderful and funny observational comedy. When he announced he would be touring again, people (including us) scrabbled to get tickets. We managed to buy our tickets tow years ago, and the date had finally come! My husband managed to book us into a hotel less than 4 minutes walk from the venue and everything from the travel and checking in went very calmly.

The gig itself was amazing, I'm not going to say much because there are plenty of people with tickets looking foreard to seeing Peter Kay, but needless to say the venue was packed and I believe everyone left the show with a big smile on their face with much jollity. On the Saturday, we went out for breakfast, visited a bookshop before travelling home. I finished my book on the kindle which I can't wait to review, much like today's offering which was the second book given to us by my incredibly well-read father-in-law with the words 'please read this'.

Weyward is a story about 3 women, related by a common bond and in different parts of history. Kate flees an abusive and controlling husband in present day. Violet in 1942 endures an overbearing father and then a handsome stranger visits the house, but is he as charming as he seems? and in 1619 Altha is on trial for witchcraft.

Each chapter is one narrator - either Kate, Violet or Altha and the first thing to say, is Emilia Hart has done a fantastic job in making these 3 distinct and different voices. It is as if there are 3 separate authors working on this book, a rare skill and one beautifully woven.

The stories are similar, all the women possess or are about to come into power, are linked beautifully to nature in some way and all have been brought down by a man. However in no way is this book man-bashing, instead it is a celebration of women, fighting on in adversity. The word witch is bandied about along with strength.

There are some wonderful moments, the relationship between Violet and her brother is quite emotional, and the moment of Kate's realisation that she is not the wicked person she thought she was. My favourite character was Altha, grounded, sensible and calm.

I was enthralled throughout by this book and it ended up being discussed in our family book group, with all enjoying it immensely. If I had one minor criticism, it was the ending for Kate which linked to another of the women, to me was not needed, but I could fully appreciate the author's choice to put this in.

And so, dear reader, if you are looking for a suitably autumnal book to read, then please do choose this. It's an excellent read with 3 great voices.

I am hoping to publish another review this week from a much-loved author of mine. I will catch-up with you soon.