Purple Coo Autumn Read 2013

 

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.