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Bring Me Back by
B. A. Paris
A young couple on
a driving holiday through France stop to get petrol. He goes to pay, she
disappears. Sounds like an all too familiar trope, but this really is a well
written, gripping thriller with a killer twist.
Forest Dark by Nicole
Krauss
A subtle and complicated
book written from two points of view. A retired successful New York lawyer and
a well-known novelist with writers block, are irresistibly dawn to visit Israel
to rethink their existence. Only once they are there, they find their lives being
altered in a way they could never have imagined.
The Keeper of
Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us.
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us.
The Kites by
Romain Gary
A novel of love
and human dilemmas in France set in the period of the Occupation. A bittersweet
masterpiece about enduring love, courage and resistance.
Scenes from a
Vanished Life by Rose Tremain
An evocation of
an era, Rose Tremain’s account of her unhappy upper-class childhood from post-war
London to a Swiss finishing school.
The picture is Black Cat with Lily by Elizabeth Blackadder
