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OK Tess and thanks for the suggestions, have a lovely break.
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Ann, wil try to get to a computer while in Torquay (Library etc).
However if I don't get back to you on time, caryy on without me.
I will go along with what ever is decided.
tess
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My Second Suggestion.
Losing You by Nicci French
Nina Landry has given up the city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls, and sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though, it is home, it is safe.
But when Nina's teenage daughter, Charlie, fails to return from a sleepover on the day they are due to fly to Florida on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether. A place of secrets and suspicions. Where no one - friends, neighbours or the police- belives Nina's instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger. lone, she undergoes a frantic search for Charlie. And as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not just whether the'll leave the island for their holiday - but whether they will ever leave it again.
"If you're reading this on the train you will miss your stop" Woman and Home.
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First Suggestion
Draems of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
"I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand yor times untill you understand mine......"
Reeling from the after math of the twin tragedies of the graet War and the influinza epidemic, school teacher, Agnes Shanklin has taken the trip of a lifetime to Eygpt and the Holy Land.
But her arrival at Cairo's Semiramis Hotel coincides with an event that will change history. For the year is 1921 and the Cairo Peace Conference is about to preside over nothing less that the creation of the modern Middle East.
At first Agnes becomes a welcome sounding board for the historic players - Churchill, T.E.Lawrence and Lady Gertrude Bell among them - poised to invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and so decide the fate of the Arab world. But as the days pass, she attracts the attention of a charismatic German spy and is inexorably drawn into duplicitous, dangerous world of geopolitical intrigue...
Compelling and passionately felt, this remarkable novel casts brilliant and perceptive light on what lies behind so many of today's headlines
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Life Support by Tess Gerritsen
Control was the word Dr Toby Harper lived by. She strove to keep her life in order, her ER in order.
But no-one could have been prepared for the man she admits one quiet night to the Springer Hospital. Delirious and in a critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without trace.
The subsequent search leads Toby to a second patient with the same infection. And it reveals an upsetting twist – the infection can only be spread through direct tissue exchange,
Soon Toby’s on a trail that winds from a pregnant sixteen year old prostitute to an unexpected tragedy in her own home.
Only then does she discover the unthinkable: a terrifying and deadly epidemic is about to be unleashed
Daughter of Fire by Barbara Erskine
Cartimandua, the young woman destined to rule the great tribe of the Brigantes, watches the invaders come ever closer. From the start her world is a maelstrom of love and conflict, revenge and retribution. Cartimandua’s life becomes more turbulent and complicated as her power grows, and her political skills are threatened by her personal choices. She has formidable enemies on all sides as she faces a decision which will change the future of all around her.
In the present day, historian Viv Lloyd Rees has immersed herself in the legends surrounding the Celtic queen. Viv struggle to hide her visions of Cartimandua and her conviction that they are real. But her obsession becomes even more persistent as she takes possession of an ancient brooch that carries a curse. Bitter rivalries and overwhelming passions are re-awakened as past envelops present and Viv finds herself in the greatest danger of her life.
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Greaders please suggest two books as usual. The vote will be pm on Tuesday 1st June
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