Now's the time to choose the next title for our Purple Coo Book Group Spring Read. If you fancy joining in, and remember all are welcome, please note your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below. If for any reason you are unable to write in the comments box please let me know your choices via Face Book or Purple Coo. The book with most votes becomes our Spring Read for 2019.
Orphan
Train by Christina Baker Kline
A US
bestselling story of two very different women who build an unexpected
friendship: a 91 year old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and
a teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to
questions no one ever thought to ask.
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Described
as a bit like Eleanor Oliphant only about a boy and set in Milton Keynes. It’s
really a novel about difference and being an outsider who views the world in a
surprising and revealing way. (Mark Haddon insists he didn't intend it to be about high-functioning autism, what do you think?)
The End
of the Affair by Grahame Green
Obsession
and jealously within an adulterous triangular relationship. Set in WW2 this is
fourth and probably the best of Green’s so-called “Catholic Novels,” and a
hundred times better than the two films.
The
Unseen by Katherine Webb
Occult happenings,
romantic passion and murder disrupt the peace of a Berkshire village in 1911.
Wish You
Were Here by Graham Swift
A testing and powerful story about a family
and their farm: history, loss and disaster, love and relationships in a rural setting ... oh yes, and a dash of politics too.
The picture is Hares by Angela Harding
The picture is Hares by Angela Harding
