I adored The Bookshop of Buried Pasts. Love absolutely everything about it; Lottie, Phyllida, Roddy, Sienna…all people I know and love now. Big themes are all here and I was there for it! Loved the Southern Highlands setting just as much as the Cambridgeshire, loved the epic-ness of the story..as I bookselling old book loving […]
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I read this one a couple of weeks ago, and am still thinking of it daily. Did not want to put this down and when I had to I was trying to connect all the dots, so compulsive! This was my first meeting with Vince Reid and I’m looking forward to going back to The
Super fun and completely like being in a hallmark movie! Exactly how I pictured setting up a restaurant would be..making cinnamon toast, fun trips to New York and a job that come complete with a yellow door cottage…hahah if only it was that simple. but who cares, this was so much funner haha I was
I adored this novel and am jealous of people who haven’t read it yet. My mum was doing some foster caring a few years ago now and gosh I just want to give this novel to those kids (although would that feel worse..) What a masterpiece. I’ve got a page of beautiful lines..’I love you.
I can see why this was such a popular Christmas present book, it is for everyone. Its a great book to pick up and read a chapter of, you can see why money makes the world go round…I was hoping it was going to save me millions, but actually I was already on to the
I had been waiting for this novel since reading The Wolf Tree, SO atmospheric, clever, compulsive, and character driven..I LOVE everything about this second novel by Laura McCluskey (even more than I did her first) What a haunting novel..full of curses, secrets and feuds as well as real comments about hunting, addiction, reporting and violence
Brilliant and exquisite and how did I not read The Marriage Portrait sooner? Outstanding and so beautiful. I’ve got nothing but superlatives! I don’t know much about the world of the Renaissance so I was able just to let it all wash over me. What a great way to learn history!! Such a sad tale
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Another beautiful Emma Grey novel about life, love, grief and compassion. I kind of don’t want to talk the plot at all; just start at the start (as apposed to the end hahaha) and experience Audrey’s, Fraser’s, Parker’s and Rachel’s and Bea’s and Maggie’s story as it unfold..and then we can chat when your done!
SO not the novel I thought I had signed up for!!!!! This is so clever, so character driven, so well done!! No wonder it was Booker shortlisted!!!!!! Full with cultures I know feel I know and real people I know this was incredible…but man it could have done with an edit there I said it
This one is a reread for bookclub novel for me.. I did remember lots and thought I had the ending but didn’t quite and that was fun! I have a train commute too and loved that whole people on the train/ people you see from the train..I can definitely see why this is a modern
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