Blogs in December 2020

The Unravelling Of Maria 15th December 2020

Lovers separated by the Iron Curtain. Two women whose paths should never have crossed. A remarkable journey that changes all of their lives. Maria’s history is a lie. Washed up on the shores of Sweden in 1944, with no...

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She Seduced Me : A Love Affair with Rome 15th December 2020

“I resisted, but she drew me back. I stayed away, but she beckoned me. I distanced myself, but she haunted me. I even rejected her but she did not abandon me…” She Seduced Me is that rare book in...

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My Mother’s Secret 15th December 2020

‘They told me he died, but I never believed them. I’d have known,’ she says, her voice little more than a whisper and her eyes searching mine. ‘A mother would know if her child died, wouldn’t she?’ The phone...

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Elsewhere, Home 15th December 2020

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2018 From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home offers us a...

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The Florist’s Daughter 15th December 2020

During the long farewell of her mother’s dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entries into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to...

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