Hi Everyone
please check out the list below and type your 1st and 2nd choices in the 'comments' box.
As soon as everyone has voted, I'll collate the votes and announce the Purple Coo Autumn Read 2013 on the Purple Coo main site. Please note, with the exception of the new title suggested by Wester Witch, the titles are the same as last time as many of you commented then you'd like the chance to vote on them all again.
Alex and
Me by Irene M Pepperbeg
How a
scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence and
formed a deep bond in the process.
If Wishes
were Horses by Susanna Forrest
A memoir of
an Equine Obsession
Island Wife
by Judy Fairbanks
Aged 19, Judy
leaves her predictable life to marry a wild adventurer. Two children later (with
more to come) she ends up on a Hebridean island. This is her story.
Like Water
for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
A Mexican
magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and simmering sensuality –
and recipes too. Anyone who’s’ seen the film will know this is pretty hot stuff
– quite literally if you remember the final scene. Wow!
Life of Pi by
Yyann Martel
I guess many
of us will have seen the extraordinary film. If anything the book is even more
fantastic or maybe I should say bizarre. This is not your usual shipwrecked at
sea adventure story.
The Fox in
the Cupboard by Jane Shilling
Poignant
memoir of growing up and family and then, as a single mum learning to ride and
experiencing fox hunting for the first time.
The Perfume
Garden by Kate Lord Brown
A gripping
story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the
Spanish Civil war.
The Perfume
Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Another dual
strand narrative, this time set in the 1920s and the 1950s. Bored socialite
newlywed receives a sizable inheritance from someone she’s never met. She goes
off to France to investigate her benefactor and tracks the unknown woman
from New York to Monte Carlo and a
perfumery in wartime Paris.
The picture is by Edward Henry Potthast.
The picture is by Edward Henry Potthast.
