To vote for the Purple Coo Book Club Spring Read 2015 please list your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below, or let me know via the Purple Coo Site or on Facebook. The most popular book will be posted on Purple Coo as soon as I've had the chance to add the votes up. I think you'll find some unusual choices this time.
Amy Snow by Tracy Rees
Abandoned as a baby and reluctantly given
shelter at nearby Hatville Court, Amy doesn’t know about her family. Her only
friend and advocate is the heiress of Hatville, but when she dies young, she
leaves Amy a bundle of mysterious letters that contain a life changing secret.
If only Amy can work out what it is.
The Leipzig Affair by Fiona Rintoul
Two worlds collide with disastrous results,
when a young and rather naïve Scott studying at Leipzig University in 1985 falls
in love with an East German woman desperate to flee to the West. He fails
understand, she’ll do anything to achieve her goals. She doesn’t care.
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
A 1940s mystery novel about the arrest and
investigation of an apparently blameless mother and daughter accused of
kidnapping and abusing a local young woman. It seems unlikely, but the girl can
back up her accusations with seemingly inconvertible evidence.
From Sea to Shining Sea by Gavin Young
A travelogue about journeys in USA that uses
the past to Illuminate the present, following in the footsteps of famous
individuals like Steinbeck (my hero) and Raymond Chandler, who apparently went
to school in Dulwich. Might make a nice change to read a different type of
book?
The Russian Chocolate Maker’s Lover by Peter
Sain Ley Berry
Following personal tragedy and a psychological
breakdown, a young woman’s visit to St Petersburg results in her becoming
embroiled in a struggle for control of a famous chocolate company. The
experience enables her to come to terms with her own demons. Romance, history,
treachery and sacrifice, set in 1990’s Russia emerging into the capitalist
world.
( The picture is Still Life with Roses by S J Peploe)
