Monthly Archives: July, 2008
A Confident Woman by Joyce Meyer
This is the synopsis from Amazon: “‘There is a wonderful plan for your life. You can hold your head up high and be filled with confidence about yourself and your future. You can be bold and step out to do new things – even things no man or woman has done before.’ ‘You have what [...]
Share on FacebookRebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Here is the synopsis from Amazon: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage [...]
Share on FacebookEmpress Orchid by Anchee Min
Amazon synopsis: To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor’s wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate facade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands [...]
Share on FacebookThe Twits by Roald Dahl
This is a book I read and loved as a child, and recently decided to re-read my Roald Dahl books. I have to say, I think I found The Twits funnier this time round! This is a very short children’s book. The main characters are Mr and Mrs Twit, the monkey family and their friend [...]
Share on FacebookPlain Truth by Jodi Picoult
This is only the second of Picoult’s novels that I have read, but like Nineteen Minutes, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazon synopsis: The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, [...]
Share on FacebookBurning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
This is the blurb from www.amazon.co.uk: The new top ten bestselling novel from the much loved author of Girl with a Pearl Earring Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier’s new novel ‘Burning Bright’ sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of [...]
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