Five suggestions: two non-fiction, two fiction and one sort of half and half. Once again I think you'll find it very difficult to choose a favourite, but as always, to vote, please make your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below. After a count up, the title of the most popular book will be posted on the Purple Coo main site. It then becomes our Purple Coo Book Club Autumn Read for 2014
A moving,
funny and heart-warming biography of a man who survived a bad beginning and
made good. (I can only find this book on kindle, not paperback)
Mary
Anne by Daphne du Maurier
Regency
flashback, set in London at a time when Paris is undergoing a reign of terror,
this is a story of a woman’s struggle to get by in a man’s world. Born in a
slum but determined to be a ‘success’ she ends up first with a disastrous
marriage, then as the mistress of great men, with the inevitable scandal or two
thrown in.
Mr Mack
and Me by Esther Freud
It’s
1914 and architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife have
moved to war-torn Waberswick in Suffolk only to find he is suspected of working
as a German spy.
A skilled
interlacing of fact and fiction, the story is told through the eyes of local
publican’s son, who has a drunken father and 6 brothers in the local graveyard.
Philomena
by Martin Sixsmith
A true
story, also made into a film, about a woman and the son she was coerced into
giving away because she was an unmarried mother.
The
Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Widely
considered to be one of the ‘Great American Novels’ this book is set in the
roaring twenties and is largely about about a mysterious millionaire and his
passion for a beautiful, spoiled young woman. Decadence, idealism, hubris,
excess, this book has it all and more.
