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The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
A village girl's dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. Cast on the mercy of relatives in fabled Isfahan, she and her mother are reduced to servitude until she reveals a talent for designing carpets - an invaluable skill in seventeenth century Iran. Hope is short lived, for a disastrous, headstrong act results in the girl's disgrace. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend, she faces a life lived at the whim of others - unless she is prepared to risk everything and choose a future based on her own strength and will.
The Blood of Flowers tells an unforgettable story, a tale of sensuality, of the treachery of friendship, of the power of love and of the fragile possibility of finding happiness against all odds.
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The house was silent. No sound of her parents getting ready for work, or her brother late for school. Were they punishing her for last night? She'd been out on a date when she should have been studying, and had a huge fight with her father. So where was everyone now? Why had her family disappeared?
Twnety five years later the mystery is no nearer to being solved and Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? Abducted? If so why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they adandon her?
Then a letter arrives, a letter which makes no sense. Soon Cynthia begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made
Cathy
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I think I shall have more time for this months reading :)) Been a busy last couple of months.
Following the Wake by Gemma O'Connor
The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leached into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune, and neither was Smiler O'Dowd, who loved her. But of all those who had contact with her, none suffered more than the wife and son of V. J. Sweeney, who drowned at sea before he could be charged with her killing. Was it all too neat? Ten years on, the sense of unfinished business continues to linger, and Gil Sweeney has become obsessed with finding out what really happened when he was a little boy of eight ...-The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leeched into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune; and neither was Smiler O'Dowd, who loved her. But of all those who had contact with her, none suffered more than the wife and son of VJ Sweeney, who drowned at sea before he could be charged with her killing. Was it all too neat?Ten years on, the sense of unfinished business continues to linger, and Gil Sweeney has become obsessed with finding out what really happened when he was a little boy of eight.
Constance by Rosie Thomas
The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Iris and Ruby. Connie Thorne was a foundling, a child left by her mother for strangers to find. Forty years on, without ever being able to discover her true identity, she has put all her energy into creating a flawless shell for herself. As a child, she was musical, her sister Jeanette was deaf. One of them was dark, the other sunny. Yet they both fell in love with the same man. And her feelings for Bill, Jeanette's husband, are the one part of herself that Connie can never reshape. When she hears the news that her sister is dying, the last thing Connie wants is to leave her Bali home and return to London. But with the bitterness of betrayal still between them, Connie and Jeanette have to learn to forgive each other. Surrounded by family, can Constance make her peace with who she really is -- and who she loves?
x Jill
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OK Michelle, please rejoin again when you have time.
thanks Gill
Ann
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Greaders suggestions July/Aug 08
English Passengers – Matthew Kneale
From the write up on the cover:
It is set in 1857, a Reverend sets out on a trip to Tasmania looking for the Garden of Eden, a fellow traveller is a sinister Dr.
Unbeknown to either of them, they are travelling on a ship that is a Manx smuggling ship outwitting the British customs.
This book is noted for the period of unrest in the Tasmanian Isle yet is shows humour and wit intermingled.
Behind the scenes of the Museum – Kate Atkinson
Not much of a write up about it…just that it is set around a family in North of England, it shows life’s little intrigues with tears as well as laughter.
Back cover credits of having been a joy to read by many newspaper reviews, but none say much about the story. It is a 1st novel by this author.
Gill
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Hi Ann I was going to PM you earlier but computer had a hissy fit, I am going to take a leave of absence from greaders for a month or so, as I am just not getting time to read at the moment. :-)
Michelle
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Greader suggestions July, August 2008
Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill
A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has captured the attention of the entire country. A two year old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. Ursula Wong is from a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as ‘half-breed trailer trash’, not worth all the expense.
But Ursula is the last of her family line, and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity. Ursula’s forebears include a second-century-BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and her great great grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty nine.
Ursula’s fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual’s life comes to seem a miracle.
Tell it to the Skies by Erica James
Suddenly in the middle of a crowded Venice street, Lydia glimpses a face that takes her back to England, back to her childhood and to a dreadful secret she believed she had banished to the past….
As children, Lydia and her sister were sent to live with grandparents they’d never even met. It was a cruel and loveless new world for them, and it forced Lydia to grow up fast. She learned to keep secrets and to trust sparingly, and through it all she was shadowed by guilt and grief.
Then, as an adult, the beautiful city of Venice gave Lydia peace, fulfilment and even love. But in a single moment, a stranger’s face forces her to revisit the past she has been hiding from for the last twenty eight years…..
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Hi Greaders. Please give your two suggestions for July/August, title and synopsis please thank you. Vote will be Wednesday 23rd.
Ann
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