Reviews of Books
Posted in Recommended, Serious on May 19th, 2011
This book is about Patty and Walter’s marriage, but it is also about so much else; America’s involvement in Iraq, the environment, parenting, the effect of poverty on a community and individuals, etc. Here is the blurb … Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light on May 11th, 2011
I’ve been having a bit of a Maggie O’Farrell festival. Here is the blurb for The Distance Between Us Stella has fled London to confront the childhood secret which has marked her life. A set of tragic circumstances and a hasty marriage bring Jake from Hong Kong to Britain, where he embarks upon a quest [...]
Posted in Recommended on May 9th, 2011
As I loved The Hand That First Held Mine (read about that here), I had to read more of her work. I wasn’t disappointed. Here is the blurb … “When Alice Raike’s sisters come to pick her up at the train station, they find her wild-eyed, confused, and insistent on returning to London that very [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on May 5th, 2011
I was sent this novel to review (how exciting!). Here’s the blurb … Friends forever. Then he came along … Bea’s contending with a new boss, power-hungry colleagues and a stroppy teen-aged son, not to mention the anxieties of returning to the dating game. Stressed-out Kate is coping with an empty nest and the growing [...]