SearchJenny and Ruth were fast friends growing up in Cornwall but when Ruth’s parents suddenly decided to move to Canada when the girls were eighteen they lost touch. Fast forward a decade and a chance encounter on a train throws the two women together again, and it’s not long before they realise that their lives [...]
Cuban Heels by Emily Barr
It’s been a while since I read anything of Emily’s and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed her books. Emily is a travel writer by day and her stories always whisk you off somewhere exotic, this time you won’t be surprised to hear that the main action takes place in Cuba. The tale is [...]
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
Having just experienced Jacquelyn Mitchard’s clunky effort of jumping between characters and their history I breathed a sigh of relief when I picked up The Distance Between Us and discovered quite quickly that Maggie is master if this skill. Events unfold in parallel as Jake experiences a tragic crowd crush in Hong Kong that leaves [...]
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Anna and the French Kiss
Anna is our narrator and she’s been plucked out of her regular teenage life where she had planned to spend senior year hanging out with her best friend Bridget and getting to know Toph her work-place crush. Instead she finds herself on a whole other continent where not only does she have to find new friends but she has to learn how to live life in a foreign language.
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The Kingdom of Childhood by Rebecca Coleman
The Kingdom of Childhood
“In Bavaria the snow is always very deep. Once the first flakes dall it quickly buries everything that rests on the country earth: hedgehog nests, lost underpants, drawings of a crucified Jesus clumsily wrought in coloured pencil, worn bars of Fels-Naptha laundry soap good for removing most stains. I have seen all of these things vanish beneath that snow that rots everything, and if ever there was anything colder or more beautiful than a German winter I have yet to experience it.”
–extract from opening chapter–
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
The Girl with Glass Feet
“A herd of moth-winged cattle on the ground could stand still for hours with all the docility of common cattle in a field, but in the air they delighted in the power of flight, and there was something kaleidoscopic about their movement. You started to see patterns, and before long you’d be hypnotised, your thoughts fluttering in the air around you. You thought how you’d been sitting like this admiring the cattle since you were young (perhaps you had been doing it for too long now).”
–excerpt from The Girl with Glass Feet–
Hector and the Secrets of Love by Francois Lelord
Hector and the Secrets of Love
“So a lot of people came to explain to Hector that love or lack of love prevented them from sleeping, thinking, laughing and in some cases even living. And with this last category Hector has to be very careful, because he knew that love can make people kill themselves, which is a very foolish thing to do, so don’t ever do it and if you have thoughts about doing it go and see someone like Hector immediately, or call a close friend.” –excerpt from chapter one –
Where Would I Be Without You? by Guillaume Musso
“Three seconds. Two seconds. One sec— A glimmer of relief lit up Archibald’s face when he saw the six figures fixed on the tiny computer screen. Then the winning combination flashed, disabling the motion sensors. Exactly as he had planned. One day, possibly, he’d make a mistake. One day, he might commit a burglary too far. But not tonight. He had the all-clear. The show could begin.” –excerpt from Chapter 2 –
