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GIVEAWAY : Two top titles to transport you to New York City and State!
9th June 2019
We have two top titles to give away to transport you to New York City and State…
The Room by the Lake by Emma Dibdin
When Caitlin left London for New York, she thought she’d left her problems behind: her alcoholic father, her dead mother, the unrelenting pressure to succeed. But now, down to her last dollar in a strange city, she is desperately lonely.
Then she finds Jake. Handsome, smart, slightly damaged Jake. And he wants her to meet his family.
He takes her to a lake house in the middle of the woods – in the middle of nowhere. The community there live off-grid. They believe in regular exercise and group therapy. And they’re friendly. Really friendly.
Turns out they’re not Jake’s real family – but isn’t family exactly what she’s running from?
But as the days drift by, Caitlin starts to feel uneasy. Now that she’s no longer running, does she risk getting lost forever?
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat Pray Love)
It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds gainful employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg’s charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre. There, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the trash and tinsel only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses.
Exile in New York is no exile at all: here in this strange wartime city of girls, Vivian and her girlfriends mean to drink the heady highball of life itself to the last drop. And when the legendary English actress Edna Watson comes to the Lily to star in the company’s most ambitious show ever, Vivian is entranced by the magic that follows in her wake. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new.
‘At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is,’ she confides. And so Vivian sets forth her story, and that of the women around her – women who have lived as they truly are, out of step with a century that could never quite keep up with them.
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Sarah C’s name came out of the hat!!!
‘New York’, by Edward Rutherford
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Summer Of Impossible things by Rowena Coleman is a fab book set in New York in the 1970’s. I loved it
My fave New York story is On Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Book is much darker than the film.
The best one I have read recently is House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure, set in late 18th century New York. It gives you a real feel for what the city was like in those times and the vast difference between the wealthy and poor areas.
My favourite book set in New York is ‘From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler’ by E. L. Konigsburg, which is about two children who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is magical and good fun.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
New York by Edward Rutherford
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
You Choose Philip Tomasso
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
I love Fiona Davis’s books, all are set in NYC. I am looking forward to reading her latest, The Chelsea Girls.
One of my absolute favourite books is Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
Definitely A tree grows in Brooklyn by B Smith
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver – I love crime fiction and thrillers!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Doll House – Fiona Davis
I just read a fantastic book set in Manhattan: Her Daughter’s Mother by Daniela Petrova. It’s definitely one of my favourites!
The book that I couldn’t put down, is You, by Caroline Keynes.
The Doll House by Fiona Davis
Lucia, Lucia – Adriana Trigiani
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster.
Sophie’s Choice, so sad.
The book I enjoyed is From Notting Hill to New York ….Actually
The Group – Mary McCarthy is a classic and one of my faves
Unquestionably mine has to be The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath about her character, Esther Greenwood’s summer internship at a magazine, mental struggles and start of her breakdown.
Time &Again Jack Finney
My most recent favourite book set in New York City is ‘A Little Life’ by Hanya Yanagihara.
I didn’t think I was going to get into it, it was a bit hard going at first, but soon I was hooked!
The Great Gatsby!
A tree grows in brooklyn
The Doll House – Fiona Davis – a new author to me but I’ll CERTAINLY be reading some more : kept me on tender hooks
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie is one of my favourites!
I’ll Take Manhattan by American author Judith Krantz was enjoyable x
Sweet Liar by Jude Deveraux
Loved Evanthia’s Gift set in Greece and New York.
Manhattan Noir