This is an unsettling novel where reality and the supernatural blend together. Set in London in the 1880s, it the story of a family on the verge of breakdown. Angelica has spent the first four years of her life sleeping in her parents’ room. When her father, Joseph Barton, moves her into a room of … Continue reading One Minute Book Review – Angelica by Arthur Phillips
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My Reading – September 2016
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwen The Scorching Wind by Walter Macken (There are few reviews and I was unable to a detailed review that didn't completely give the plot away.) Still she wished for Company by Margaret Irwin A Room with a View by E M Forster (Spoilers) The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do Save
One Minute Book Review – The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
Barbara Erskine is one of my favourite writers of popular time-slip fiction. The modern narrative in this novel concerns art historian, Lucy Standish, who is writing a biography of wartime artist, Evie Lucas, about whom little is known. The historical narrative begins in the summer of 1940 at the start of the Battle of Britain … Continue reading One Minute Book Review – The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
One Minute Book Review – Soul Catcher by Michael White
Set in the period just prior to the Civil War, Soul Catcher follows the dangerous journey of professional slave hunter, or soul catcher, Augustus Cain to bring back two runaway slaves of wealthy plantation owner Eberly to whom Cain has gambling debts. The prose is descriptive and evocative with its greatest strength in characterization. Cain … Continue reading One Minute Book Review – Soul Catcher by Michael White
My Reading – August 2016
Toby's Room by Pat Barker Noonday by Pat Barker The Cursed Child by JK Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne The Library of Unrequited Love By Sophie Divry 1914 Poetry Remembers edited by Carol Ann Duffy
My Reading – July 2016
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte Life Class by Pat Barker Nelly Dean by Alison Case Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
My Reading – June 2016
Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel The Golden Dice By Elisabeth Storrs Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte No Shred of Evidence by Charles Todd The Visitors by Rebecca Mascull
My Reading – May 2016
Exposure by Helen Dunmore At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier The Wedding Shroud by Elisabeth Storrs
My Reading – April 2016
The House at Riverton : a Novel by Kate Morton Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Alan Duff
My Reading – March 2016
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Disclaimer by Renee Knight A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
Catherine Meyrick 