The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan was inspired by true events during World War 11 in London. A renowned London fashion designer loses her home and workshop in the blitz and flees to the family manor in the countryside, an easy read and most enjoyable.
Lorraine had a busy month - her reads include James Patterson NYPD 2, Wild Wood by Posie Graeme Evans, The Model Wife by Tricia Stringer, Cold Fear set in Antartica, author Mads Peder Nordbo, this was a thriller, Ruth Druart wrote The Last Hour in Paris and last but not least The French Agent by Belinda Alexander, well done Lorraine.
Wilma enjoyed The Last Train by Sue Lawrence whilst Rae read Stalker by Lars Kepler - the author wrote of women who received a video of themselves at home, scary stuff.
Noelle pointed out that some of the small books for coffee tables are really worth looking at, so here are a few Noelle bought along to show us Animalphabet a delightful book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Murakami and all his T shirts – the T shirts from where and how and those he loved, Very California by Gessler lively stories and sketches a lovely book, Noelle also read The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw a funny, heartbreaking memoir of a bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in remote Fiordland; a short biography by Jill Roe of Miles Franklin was worth the read.
Joan read Perfect Murder/Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller and Deaths Acre by Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson was enjoyed. Heather looks for Dick Francis novels and included in her reading was French Spirits by Jeffrey Greene.
Other books read were The Almost Perfect Murder by John Suter, The Spider and the Fly by Claudia Rowe, this book was not recommended. A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler whose books have been read by many. Another interesting author is Kate Morton, whose rich historical drama Forgotten Garden was recommended.
Mention was also made of Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall triology who died recently, a speech about Hilary was made at Huntingdon Hall and can be viewed on YouTube.
We will catch up in November with many more `good reads’.
Geraldine McCorkell