Monthly Archives: November, 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Waterstones Synopsis: Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love [...]
Share on FacebookIt’s The Little Things by Erica James
Waterstones Synopsis: Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world’s biggest natural disasters – the Boxing Day tsunami – their lives have changed dramatically. Dan and Sally are now parents. Dan is enjoying being a stay-at-home father taking care of [...]
Share on Facebook16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
Waterstones Synopsis: Family court judge Olivia Lockhart has a failed marriage, a difficult relationship with her daughter, Justine, and a mother who has plenty of opinions and is always willing to share them. When Olivia denies a divorce in court, there is a frenzied reaction and, thanks to an article by Jack Griffin in the [...]
Share on FacebookThe Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Waterstones Synopsis Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family at the start of the rock’n’roll era. Penelope longs to be grown-up and to fall in love; but various rather inconvenient things [...]
Share on FacebookTuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Waterstones Synopsis: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly 20 years [...]
Share on FacebookBlossom Street Series
For the reviews of the first books in The Blossom Street Series please follow the this link. Share on Facebook
Share on FacebookSummer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
Waterstone’s Synopsis: This is Lydia’s newest knitting class is called “Knit to Quit”. It has four members: Abbie, a woman who’s dealing with a broken engagement; Alix who wants to quit smoking before she gets pregnant; Margaret and – for the first time – a man, Brain Hutchinson, who joins the class to help deal [...]
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