Blogs in August 2023

Absolutely and Forever 16th August 2023

Determined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s London How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly...

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Music & Silence 6th February 2021

Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain’s dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception…tenderness and violence…community and alienation…peace and conflict…”Music & Silence.” Peter Claire is an English...

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Islands of Mercy 9th May 2020

She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned...

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The Gustav Sonata 2nd June 2016

What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in ‘neutral’ Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav’s father...

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The Way I Found Her 1st January 1970

This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his mother, Alice. Alice is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian émigré, Lewis is there to make his...

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