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The Silk Merchant's Daughter by Dinah Jefferies. We met on 8th August to discuss it, and for once our stars aligned and all ten of us were present! We agreed that it was an amazing and captivating story, historical fiction maybe but we all learned a lot about French Indo-China in the early 1950s. Our average score for the […]
» Read moreWe had no set book this month, so we all chose a good read, some very successfully, others not quite so. The one 10/10 was by Rohinton Mistry “A Fine Balance” – an exceptional novel about India during The Emergency. (We as a group had read this author’s “Family Matters” and had loved it) Several highly recommended 9/10s: […]
» Read moreNo Time for Goodbye is a "thriller" novel written by Canadian author Linwood Barclay. Married and with a daughter of her own, it has been twenty five years since her family vanished without a trace but Cynthia Archer has never given up hope that they might one day all return and, as a result, has not been able to […]
» Read moreAll The Light We Cannot see” by Anthony Doerr "This is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer whose sentences never fail to thrall" The Guardian. Remarkably our whole group concurred with this quotation and during our discussion we ran out of superlatives to describe this brilliantly written book. The story is set in Nazi Germany where we follow […]
» Read moreThe Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty The Doughty Family lives on the oddly named Scribbly Gum Island, a short ferry ride from Sydney Australia, and so called after the Scribbly Gum Eucalyptus trees that grow there. The Island and the family becomes famous because 70 years previously, teenage sisters Connie and Rose Doughty had found an abandoned baby girl […]
» Read moreThe Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce Rachel Joyce first introduces Queenie Hennessy in her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, when Queenie writes to her old friend Harold, with whom she has had no contact for 20 years, telling him that she is dying of cancer. Harold replies that he is coming […]
» Read moreCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Smalltown Mississippi in the 1970s sets the scene for this story of an unlikely friendship between two young lads, Silas and Larry. They are from very different backgrounds of class and race, and neither of them fits in with the locals. They form a special bond; but this is tragically fractured when a […]
» Read moreThere was no set book this month so members had free rein, some more successful than others. The diverse choices ranged from:- * The power of the dog by Thomas Savage ( a Vintage Classic ) – powerful. * A Dictionary of Misunderstanding by Jackie Copleton. – Excellent * Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford – Fascinating Autobiography * Anna […]
» Read more"Cranford" By Elizabeth Gaskell Page Turners were greeted with mincepies. Mulled wine and Buck’s Fizz to ensure plenty of Christmas spirit at the final meeting of 2016. Less palatable however, was the book the group had been offered for December. To continue the foodie theme, it was not easily digested by the group and left a bitter taste in […]
» Read moreThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie’s first novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” was published in 1920 and introduced a new literary character in the form of Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective who became the central figure in more than 30 of her novels. The unfolding story line is narrated by Captain Hastings, a guest […]
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