Gosh such a freezing month!!!! This month I’ve gone with some opposite to embracing the season and done some books with warm settings!! Hope you are getting lots of under the lap blanket with a warm tea reading in!!!
I adore Jane Austen, of course I am a 46 year old reader hahah but it is true love I’m sure of it! And Pride and Prejudice was absolutely my first love, all that romance, balls and carriages…although Jane does get caught in the rain and ahh has to stay with the Bingley’s in my head it’s all just a Spring shower…
Anna Downes’ The Safe Place is definitely a thriller, but its set in completely luxurious French property! It’s warm..there are scenes in pools, in cute growers markets..i it’s picture perfect (almost too good to be true some might say)… It centres around Emily starting a new job as a live in staff member on the property and it goes from there! I couldn’t put it down but it was never gorgy or bloody; so good
I read Long Island a few weeks ago and it is definitely one I will be thinking about, I loved Brooklyn and was so excited when I learnt there was going to be a sequel. It had been years since even seeing the movie so I was bit scared I wouldn’t know everyone, but we are in the hands of a master Colm Toibin is brilliant. In Long Island we catch up with Ellis in the midst of a marriage crisis and returning back to her past..I don’t want to give anything away, although it isn’t a plot heavy novel- lots of looking inward and beautifully crafted sentences..there was a line I underlined where Ellis makes a sandwich, how that could be as beautiful as I know it is I don’t know!
I’ve just finished This Summer Will Be Different and omg if Prince Edward Island is not at the top of my bucket list!!!!! This was my first Carly Fortune but it will not be my last!! It is a rom com completely, but the perfect one for the middle of winter!! So much oyster eating and outside being; perfect. It also had the added bonus of being an Anne of Green Gables kindred spirit so for this friend of Anne it was such a treat!!! I loved it!!!
The Girl Who Touched The Stars is such an inspiration of a book. I got so much out of it! Just a beautiful read about Bonnie Hancock’s extreme world record attempt, it is a real demonstration of bravery, resilience, determination and she really demonstrates a deep love and appreciation for the water. It is just such an uplifting memoir and I am so glad I read it! I loved it!!!
