Winter Reading for the Purple Coo Book Club
Here is the suggested list of books.
Please make your 1st and 2nd choices in the comment box. I'll collate the votes and put the most popular book choice on the Book Forum. Then we can all put the book on our Santa list and hope.....
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
A haunting tale set in rural Wales. A flame haired, motherless eight year old is sent to live with her grandparents and it takes a while to reveal her hidden past.
Last Goodbye by Arvin Reed
A tale of love and murder set on the mean streets and in the sleek society haunts of Atlanta.
(Hopefully this is the right book as I wasn’t given the author’s name and there are LOADS of books with this title)
The Birth House by Anni McKay
A gripping saga about a midwife’s struggles in the wilds of Nova Scotia
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
A plot full of genealogical intrigue and murder linking a gruesome past to crimes committed now – well it would make a change.
The Eustacia Diamonds by Anthony Trollop
A fast moving classic, with diamonds thrown in for good measure
The Meaning of Now by Michael Cox
A darkly Gothic Victorian type murder mystery
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Set in the South of England in the 1950s, it’s the story of a boy who becomes estranged from his family after witnessing a terrible, tragic accident.
Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe
Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939. A brilliant study of marriages ‘a la mode’ among the Bloomsbury set
White Tiger by Aravind Adrga
A Man Booker prize-winner. A tale of two Indias and a man of amoral character. The bleak life of an Indian village versus the glittering prizes apparently available in the big city.
