Ungrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil and leaves them in books in the library. When she finishes her final letter, she disappears. Her daughter, Flora comes home twelve years later to care for her ailing father. She has been searching for her mother ever since, never believing that she has died. The story […]
[Continue reading...]Self-Storage by Gail Brandeis
June 5, 2017 by
Flan Parker sells stuff from abandoned storage lockers trying to make ends meet while her husband “finishes” his PhD. She finds a piece of paper in a box that says “yes” and so begins her search for the person who wrote the word and why she wrote it. Flan is funny and smart. What I […]
[Continue reading...]Setting Free the Kites by Alex George
June 5, 2017 by
I wasn’t sure whether I would like this coming of age story about two young boys (Nathan and Robert). I loved it. It is a suspensful, tender novel about tragedy and redemption with two boys who will make you laugh and cry and laugh again.
[Continue reading...]In the Name of Family by Sarah Dunant
June 5, 2017 by
A story set in Renaissance Italy – my FAVOURITE – revolving around Pope Rodrigo Borgia and his daughter Lucrezia. It is a work of historical fiction filled with intrigue, politics and nasty characters. The best!
[Continue reading...]Nostalgia by MG Vassanji
June 5, 2017 by
A real departure for Vassanji I think. This story is set in the future and follows the life of a doctor whose job it is to create entire new lives for people who would like to shed their present one. He is in popular demand and is highly respected but he begins to question whether […]
[Continue reading...]Orhans’ Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
June 5, 2017 by
Orhan heads back to his backwater Turkish hometown to sort out his grandfather’s will. The family estate has been left to a stranger who resides in the US. The story shifts back and forth through time – telling the story of two young people caught in the Armenian holocaust. Orhan decides to find out who […]
[Continue reading...]Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
June 5, 2017 by
A story about Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa – told from Vanessa’s perspective. If you are a lover of art in all its forms read this book!
[Continue reading...]Faithful by Alice Hoffman
January 17, 2017 by
After a car crash that leaves her best friend on life support, Shelby loses her “self”. She begins receiving two word messages from an unknown stranger – messages that bolster her – and they follow her all the way to New York where she feels she can truly get lost. This is a story of […]
[Continue reading...]Serial Monogamy by Kate Taylor
January 17, 2017 by
Sharon is a novelist who is reeling when her husband leaves her for his grad student. A few months later Sharon is diagnosed with breast cancer. She is asked by the editor of a dying newspaper to write a serial to commemorate the anniversary of Dickens’ death. She says yes in the hopes that the […]
[Continue reading...]The Long Hot Summer by Kathleen MacMahon
January 17, 2017 by
This is a novel about a dysfunctional family that you cannot help but love. Each character gets his/her own chapter that gives you some insights into that particular (dysfunctional) individual. Funny, Wise and tender – my kind of book!
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