By the author of Water for Elephants (and if you haven’t read that yet WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?) – I enjoyed this book (but not as much as Water for Elephants) – I liked the characters – Maddie is dragged across the ocean during wartime in support of Ellis (her husband) who is in […]

I you liked The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry you will fall in love with Frank. He is a pensioner who got run over by a milk truck and has a home care nurse coming to help him out while he recuperates. He gets a little more than he bargained for as he grapples with […]

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this novel. Expected light chick lit but instead found it to be a very funny, insightful and honest look at the big little lies we tell ourselves and the lengths to which we will go to believe them. The novel is set in a little town where […]

David Mitchell is a brilliant writer – characters are wise, witty – if you can suspend your belief a little the plot twists and turns and is plausible in an implausible kind of way. It is magical, suspenseful and imaginative.

If you didn’t read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry then start with that – it is the story of Harold who receives a letter from Queenie telling him that she is dying. They’ve not seen each other in over 30 years – Harold inadvertently begins to walk to Queenie who is way too far […]