By the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce’s new novel is as wonderful a read – filled with humour: Byron was given a hundred lines for disturbing a classmate. (“I must endeavor to be no more stupid than God has intended.”)” and wisdom: “Sometimes caring for something already growing is […]

Don’t tell anybody but I love Lauren Willig! Her books are light, airy, funny, predictable yet engaging… You won’t be able to refrain from getting caught up in the dramas of her two heroines (there are always two!) I always look forward to the next in the series …

Set in Britain during WW2 and the Cold War – Joan becomes a spy for Soviet Russia. She is apprehended 60 years later when in her eighties. We move back and forth in time as we come to understand why Joan feels it is necessary to pass along some “secrets” to her Soviet friends. Wonderfully […]

Great read – set in New York, late 1800 – based on real person – midwife and proponent of women’s right to choose at a time when women had little control over their lives – Axie is inspiring, funny and full of p**s (as she is wont to write) and vinegar … great read!

Great book – characters are clever, witty, beautifully rendered against a backdrop that is suspenseful and believable – okay the end was a little tidy but no matter – a great read – and it got me over the “I am so sad to have finished Atwood’s new book whatever shall I read next?” hump […]