General Chat

Dee, I suspect you have already seen at the top that the vote is on wednesday 30th. Ann Glos

Secrets – Lesley Pearse Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident, and her mother Rose – so devastated and demented by the loss – begins to abuse her Rose is sent off to an asylum and when her father, too, relinquishes any responsibility for her, Adele is sent to a children’s home, but finds the treatment there even worse, She is soon forced to run away and walks through the night to Rye to trace her grandmother, Honour, a bitter, eccentric woman who is not best pleased to see her granddaughter. Eventually, the two forge a bond and Honour allows Adele to stay and enjoy the peace, serenity and safety of her new home. And when Adele meets Paul Bailey two years later and real love and friendship enter her life, she feels she can at last start to put her hurtful past behind her.

Ireland – Frank Delaney One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller, the last of a fabled breed, arrives unannounced at a house in the Irish countryside. By the winter fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land. One of his listeners, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced that when the old man leaves he devotes his life to finding him again Ireland travels through the centuries by the way of story after story, from the savage grip of the Ice Age to the green and troubled land of tourist brochures and news headlines. Along the way, we meet foolish kings and innocent monks, god-heroes and great works of art, shrewd Norman raiders and strong tribal leaders, poets, politicians and lovers. A novel of huge ambition, beautifully told, Ireland is the unstoppably readable story of a remarkable nation

I'd better get my thinking cap on, had forgotten that we were choosing books again today. When is the vote Ann? Dee xx

The Last Time they met by Anita Shreve 'When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for 26 years. theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion. a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the 1970s, and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode.' From the book cover. Reviewed in the Times - A luminous combination of stylistic simplicity and emotional complexity, revealing her to be a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart. ann Glos

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson A young fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat off an island in the Pacific Northwest. The novel tells of love and war and the ways men and women struggle for survival and redemption. Ann glos

Please add two books for the December selection. Voting will be on Wednesday 30th. You may add books that have already been suggested but not yet read. Ann Glos