Hi Everyone
please read the list below and make your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below. As soon as everyone has voted, I'll collate the votes and announce the most popular choice for the Purple Coo Spring Read on the Purple Coo main site.
Marjorie
Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Classic New
York City drama - passion, love and desire - written in the 1950s. An
idealistic young woman, with dreams of becoming an actress, pursues this dream
but finally is forced to give it up and become a suburban ‘good wife and
mother.’
Pillion
Riders by Elizabeth Russel
A battle
between heart and head, passion and morality. A sensitive young woman, married
to an older successful business man, lives an encapsulated life of luxury in
London. But this all changes when she visits Paris and falls in love with a
young French composer of scant means and morals.
Room by Emma
Donoghue
It's Jack's
5th birthday and he's excited ... he lives with his ma in Room, which has a locked
door and skylight and measures 11' by 11'. He loves watching TV and the cartoon
characters are his friends, but he knows nothing on screen is truly real- only
him, ma and things in Room. Until the day Ma tells him there is a world
outside. Very moving account from child's point of view of a very harrowing
existence.
Sense of an
Ending by Julian Barnes
Man Booker
prize winner 201. A middle aged man coming
to terms with inconsistent memories about the past. A novel about secrets
withheld or suppressed. An unexpected bequest that leads to a search through a
past times, a place where things are unexpectedly murky.
The Soldier’s
Wife by Joanna Trollop
Does marrying
a soldier mean marrying the Army? The usual Trollop knack of capturing the
snags and frustrations of family life, the tensions and the dangerous pressure
points of a relationship in difficulties.
Waiting for Sunrise
by William Boyd
His latest
book. It begins in Vienna, 1913. A young English actor starts a passionate love
affair with an unusual woman he meets in the waiting room of his psychiatrist.
He moves to a world of sex, scandal and spies, where truth and deception blur and Britain is in Danger ... If you loved Any Human Heart (I did) then this is the book for you.
(The painting is by James Nairn)
He moves to a world of sex, scandal and spies, where truth and deception blur and Britain is in Danger ... If you loved Any Human Heart (I did) then this is the book for you.
(The painting is by James Nairn)
