This is a lovely story. A book full of troubled and damaged people who you just love. The novel centers around a beautiful retirement home that I want to live in right now, it’s gorgeous reading. It’s such a whimsical, beautiful book. Themes of love and forgiveness feature so significantly, so does mortality and acceptance.Continue reading “The Bar Habor Retirement Home for Famous Writers”
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The Hunted
That. Was. Petrifying. Thrillers aren’t my bag. This book is so removed far from my genre. I had to put it down constantly! I don’t like being scared, let alone fearful. Oh my goodness, that was scary! But bloody hell, if you do like thrillers this is such a thriller! I was so worried forContinue reading “The Hunted”
Who We Were
2 Show more Review I’m so not a thriller reader, so I was scared to start reading my ARC, but this was perfect for me. It’s definitely more character based domestic noir than bloody and violent. The storyline was so interesting. 17 year olds can so self centred, obnoxious and casually cruel in ways a 37Continue reading “Who We Were”
All Our Shimmering Skies
What an epic quest. So different from what I was expecting. So much more than what I was expecting. Beautiful girls doing unbelievable things. It is such evocative language “knobs turning, doors opening, cupboards slamming shut…”. Such beautiful messages “I think we’re supposed to to find ourselves things to etch”; a world where gold rotsContinue reading “All Our Shimmering Skies”
The Drover’s Wife
I don’t understand the indifferent reviews. I thought it was brilliant. I think it makes such a compelling statement on our national identity. There were definitely times when I felt chills. I thought it was a powerful story that really describes what could have been. For me the plot and narrative was tight. I thoughtContinue reading “The Drover’s Wife”
Lady in Waiting
This was such a great iso escape for me. What a difference world! Lady Anne Glenconner has shown me a life where ‘she tried her hardest to be a boy’, one in which ‘she didn’t think to question’, where the qualities of her children’s childhoods where unashamedly down to the right nanny ‘which made allContinue reading “Lady in Waiting”
The Woman From Saint Germain
I really liked it. I thought the fact that Eleanor was so vain and arrogant just made her a rich, entitled fully formed character. I liked seeing WW2 through the eyes of an American living in Paris, a French policeman, and the German outcast. I loved Bauer, haven’t we all made bargains with God…I reallyContinue reading “The Woman From Saint Germain”
Easter Promises
I didn’t think I liked short stories, but these were fantastic. They are all full stories just condensed, I felt completely satisfied and happy with all of them. April was a great time to be reading them too, very Easter Perfect. I loved that these were all strong female role models crossing boundaries at pivotalContinue reading “Easter Promises”
Sorrow and Bliss
Such a sad, hopeful, thought provoking, insightful novel. I loved Martha and I know she’ll be fine. It’s an engrossing novel about a woman, her family, her life and her marriage. I thought it provided real insight into mental illness “my whole adult life I’ve been trying to work out what is wrong with me…”Continue reading “Sorrow and Bliss”
The Tolstoy Estate
Such a moving, powerful story of love, war, literature and longing. Seen through a German surgeon during the doomed Russian invasion in 1941. It showed me so well the horrors of war (made iso look like a holiday) the camaraderie of war, as well as the gift literature is in times of crisis. The storyContinue reading “The Tolstoy Estate”
