General Chat

Sorry, I am still reading "Dancing in the dark"

I am about 3/4 of the way through it. Determined to finish it but the opportunity to read it quickly hasn't been there. I love the story and will put it on here when I have finished it.
Sue x

Thanks Linda and thank you for the book, I look forward to reading it after |I have read this months Greaders books.

N for Ann

Thank you Linda. what authors do you like? I will have a look and see if I have one I can send you if you give me some ideas.

Ann I finally got the book in the post to you on Friday. Hopefully it will get to you before the next strike.

Hope you enjoy it

Linda :o)

I read a Lyn Andrews one while on holiday, I had taken a couple of books with me, including quite a good one called Mourning Doves by Helen Forrester, I left that one behind on the bookshelf at the Blue Gardens complex where they had a bookshelf in the Bar/Restaurant and also a pile of magazines so read several recent copies of OK and similar mags and found the Lyn Andrews book and one I brought home with me which I am still reading. I did mention to Elana one of the owner's, that I would like to stay for the winter as there were so many good books there to read. One I would have liked to read was Nobody's Girl by Kitty Neale, but didn't have time so had to leave it there!

Lizx

Good afternoon ladies, nice to see this passing on of books still going on, l have been reading quite a few lately and will add them later if anyone would like to read them ( in the middle of cooking the Sunday roast) so will add them tomorrow.
Happy reading.

PMd you Linda thanks.

Ann
Let me have your address and I will get to the Post Office when I can.

I quite like this passing books on.

Linda :o) XxX

They all sound good, think I have read the other side of the bridge though. If nobody else is interested Linda I wouldn't mind the Martina Reilly one, no rush though.

Hope you enjoyed your holiday.

Ann
Glos

The Other Side of The Bridge

Product Description
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father's character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know. A young woman, Laura, comes into the community and tips the fragile balance of sibling rivalry over the edge...And then there is Ian, son of the local doctor, much younger, thoughtful, idealistic, and far too sure that he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the Fifties, and the world has changed - a little, but not enough. The stories of these two generations in the small town of Struan and its harsh rural hinterland are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men and whose unimaginable horror reaches right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. Lawson has an astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, building to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising the reader with moments of tenderness and humour, "The Other Side of the Bridge" is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.


Linda :o)

Mist Over The Mersey by Lyn Andrews

From the Back Cover
The Chatterton family was posh, everyone could see that - far too posh for Scotland Road, the Liverpool slum area where they had ended up. Nancy Butterworth and Abbie Kerrigan, lifelong residents of the place, tried to befriend Dee Chatterton, but Dee's snobbish and sick mother wanted her family to have nothing to do with the rough street children. Mr Chatterton, meanwhile, weighed down with the worry and shame of having lost all his money, tried ineffectually to get together a home, and was not too proud to accept help from plump, good-hearted Bridie Butterworth and her neighbours. In the corner shop the Burgess family looked forward with excitement and trepidation to the arrival of their young cousin Sean from Dublin, and Nancy was not the only girl to lose her heart, and much else besides, to the Irish charmer.
But with the arrival of 1914 things were to change dramatically for the inhabitants of this poor but closely-knit community. And the Chattertons, the Butterworths, the Kerrigans and the Burgesses found that money and social position meant little when the horrors of the First World War invaded their lives and took away their sons. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Next one next post

Linda :o)

Hi Ladies
Well have just had a week in Normandy and managed to read 3 books
Below is a description of the first will add others seperately if anyone wants them let me know and I will post them on.

Something Borrowed by Martina Reilly

Review
'Bestelling author Tina Reilly does it again, guiding us through the tangled web of Vicky's life, love and losses in honest, fresh and funny form.' U MAGAZINE 'A frank and funny tale.' WOMAN'S OWN

Product Description
Vicky McCarthy's curiosity has finally got the better of her. Adopted as a baby, she is now determined to trace her birth mother. Her family wish she would leave the past alone, which is just as well: Vicky is in danger of uncovering some shocking secrets. But, hoping that the past will help her determine the future, she sets out to find the truth. And if that doesn't cause friction enough, there's trouble at work when a new face appears: Ed O'Neill, whom Vicky is convinced is being groomed for her job. The spark between them is instant ? they can't stand each other. Yet it's a thin line between love and hate, and Vicky is learning that people aren't always what they seem.

Others to add

Linda :o)

Thanks, OK if nobody on here wants it I will let my daughter read it then.

Ann

Ann, l do not want the book back thankyou.

Just caught up with this again. Glad you enjoyed it Mummo.

I have read The boy in the striped pyjamas. Very thought provoking, sad, cleverly written, not sure I enjoyed it as such because of the subject matter, but I am glad I read it, so thank you.

Do you now want it back, or does anyone else want to read it?

Just letting you know that Sue has received the book "Dancing in the dark" so if anyone wants to read it after her please let her know..............very good read, thanks for sending it to me Ann.

Sue, received the boy in the striped pyjamas this morning for which many thanks. I have a book to finish first then will read it.

Ann
Glos

Have Pm 'd you Susan.

Hi Mummo,
I will be pleased to read it.
It is good to see the books going around.
Sue