please read the list below and type your 1st and 2nd choices in the 'comments'.
As soon as everyone has voted, I'll collate the votes and announce the Purple Coo Winter Read 2011 on the Purple Coo main site.
Adrian Mole – The Cappuccino years by Sue TownsendA very funny light read, but you have to like the Adrian Mole books to appreciate the humour.
BloodMining by Laura Wilkinson
Three women, one secret, a child with a deadly disease. This is Laura Wilkinson’s debut novel. Set in the near future it’s a family drama with a dark and unsettling twist. Heart warming, topical and disturbing. (I’ll come clean that Laura is known to me. We are both members of the same writing group – but this is a remarkable and very readable book that I highly recommend)
Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
This is the real story not the soap opera they put on the tele. A delightful book about growing up, as well as the most amazing piece of turn of the century social history.
Restless by William Boyd
An intertwining story of a Russian émigré and erstwhile British spy, and her daughter Ruth. There’s a laconic Englishman as well, but it is less a love story, more a cracking adventure.
Tempest Tost by Canadian author Robertson Davis
The first book of the Salterton Trilogy. A yarn about an amateur dramatic group performing The Tempest. Still waters run deep in quaint towns . Entertaining and amusing. I’m sure they’ll be a lot of takers for this book.
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Two women, Rose and Lottie, leave 1920’s London to escape from their miserable empty marriages. They decide to rent an Italian castle. Serene and soothing, this book will restore our love and belief in the power of nature to heal the spirit and make us better people.
The Lady of the Rivers by Phillipa Gregory
A historical novel about Jacquetta of Luxembourg. A real life, but haunting and mysterious heroine, with a reputation for making magic.
Winter Smith by Sir Terry Pratchet
Highly suitable as it has lots of snow in it (According to a certain witchy person, who’s a real Terry P fan)
(Painting is Two Cats and Flowers by Elizabeth Blackadder)
(Painting is Two Cats and Flowers by Elizabeth Blackadder)
