By Erin Morgenstern. Erin’s book is set in the Le Cirque des Rêves. Rather than being entirely about the circus itself, the circus also serves as the backdrop to a ‘game’ spanning years. No one knows how many years, possibly even generations. The circus arrives without fanfare or warning. It is simply there one night.… Continue reading The Night Circus
By Matt Haig. Nora Seed is feeling dejected, like she doesn’t want to go on. She lives alone, not even with her cat that had died. She found out about the cat’s death by a kindly stranger. She lamed herself for the death, although it was not her fault. That was just one of her… Continue reading The Midnight Library
By Charity Norman In the Tuckbox Café the morning started as usual. Then, in an instant, everything changed. A patron argued angrily with the café owner. Stormed out to return a few minutes later with a shotgun. Moments later a gunshot is heard. Seconds after that, the people in the cafe getting their drinks or… Continue reading The Secrets Of Strangers
By C. L. Taylor Strangers is a story that could have been separated into a set of connected short stories. You’ll quickly see the reason for the title. The few players in the story that have some kind of connection at the beginning, are only tenuously or indirectly connected. Each could be just a bit… Continue reading Strangers
By Ruth Hogan. This was the second of Ruth Hogan’s books that I have read. The first was The Keeper Of Lost Things. In both cases Hogan’s books were selections of the Journey book group, not my own. Nevertheless, after my enjoyment of The Keeper Of Lost things. I looked forward to this title by… Continue reading Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel
by Winifred Watson. Delightful, is something I would usually say near the end of my reviews. Of this book, I couldn’t resist the temptation to say it at the beginning. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is set in 1930s London, having been written in 1938. The novel was filmed in 2008, the title role… Continue reading Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
A review of the book by Christy Lefteri. Nuri and Afra, along with their son Sami live contented lives in Syria, in the town of Aleppo. Nuri runs a successful busy with his friend Mustafa. Together they make and sell honey, from their own beehives. The business prospers, surviving the war for some time, until… Continue reading The Beekeeper Of Aleppo
By Amy Tan. LuLing Liu is ageing and beginning to suffer from dementia. Before the disease overtakes her, she sets down on paper, her history before she came to live in America. LuLing, born in 1916, writes about her childhood in China of the 1920s and 30s, living with fairly prosperous family. The most important… Continue reading The Bonesetters Daughter
By Dodie Smith I was lead to Dodie’s novel by reference to it in Sally Vickers book, The Librarian. Like two others noted from the same book it is a good few years old, first published in 1949, set mainly in the spring and summer of 1934. The Mortmain family is living in a slightly… Continue reading I Capture The Castle
By Tan Twan Eng. It is the late 1980s when Judge Teoh Yun Ling, only the second woman to be appointed to the Malayan Supreme Court, has just retired. She sets out to return to the Central Highlands of Malaya, to complete something she begun more than 30 years before, during the Malayan Emergency. The… Continue reading The Garden of Evening Mists
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