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Hi sorry to be late:

But I do want to recommend a book that I recommended last time.
If you like Rosie Thomas, Elizabeth Nobel, Marcia Willet, Sara McDonald or Elizabeth Edmondson and even the Thorn Birds. You will like Monica McInerney - she is an Australian author and amongst other books
the really great read is Those Faraday Girls.
It is a great page turner and you don't want to put it down.

Cheers Ann

Norma

Thanks, Ann, just didn't want to miss voting and didn't think I would be on here so late but have been doing some research whilst OH is watching footie.

Berona is happy to read whatever is voted in, still no sign of perse. I will put the vote thread up first thing tomorrow morning. If anyone will be unavailable PM me your choice from the existing list and I will add it tomorrow. Sorry for the delay but I like to get as wide a choice as possible.

OK Jill.

Will check back later, if not on, will look first thing tomorrow to vote

x Jill

I will transfer your vote to the vote thread when I put it up May.

I would like to vote for nTree of Angels and Winter Ghosts.

n

That's okay Ann,
I was hoping to see suggestions from Perse and Berona. I am happy to leave it till later.

I am going to leave this a couple of hours to see if there are any more suggestions so I will be delaying the vote. Sorry those of you who got yours in on time.

Any more??

I thought we might have had suggestions from Perse and Berona overnight. Vote will be at 5pm today.

A good morning nudge
x Jill

n

n

My second suggestion is ;-

Mr Timothy by Louis Bayard

'Not so little any more, that's a fact"
So begins Louis Bayard's enthralling tale of mischief and murder.

The Tiny Tim of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" has now grown up. Having cast aside his crutches, he spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets.
Then he meets Philomela, a girl who clearly needs his protection. And Tim suddenly finds himself embroiled in a disturbbing mystery.

Through teeming markets, shadowy passages and thick brown fog, this brilliant story dazzles at every turn

My suggestions are:-


Tree of Angels by Penny Sumner

A house carved fine as a jewellery box, a painted garden, an angel in a palm tree. These are some of the marvels where Nina grows up, surrounded by her beautiful mother, her eccentric father and her elder sister. But a tragedy causes Nina to leave her homeland behind and when she arrives in England on the brink of the First World War she must adjust to a society very different to her own.

Over the next eighty years, the family scatters across the globe in the wake of the Russian revolution and two world wars. It is only when Nina's granddaughter begins a search for her roots that her family's tragic history can be pieced together.....

Travels with my aunt by Graham Greene
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay...Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

A new edition of one of the bestselling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author. The publication of 'Wild Swans' in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the bestselling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award. Few books have ever had such an impact on their readers. Through the story of three generations of women -- grandmother, mother and daughter -- 'Wild Swans' tells nothing less than the whole tumultuous history of China's tragic 20th-century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Manchu Empire to the Cultural Revolution. At times terrifying, at times astonishing, always deeply moving, 'Wild Swans' is a book in a million, a true story with all the passion and grandeur of a great novel. For this new edition, Jung Chang has written a new introduction, bringing her own story up to date, and describing the effect the success of 'Wild Swans' has had on her life.
x jill

P S I Love You - Cecelia Ahern

From Amazon: Holly and Gerry had the perfect life. Happily married, living in Dublin close to their friends and family, and with a brilliant social life, they had the world at their feet. Or so they thought. When Gerry dies, Holly is devastated. On the eve of her 30th birthday, the man who was her lover, her best friend, her rock, has left her. But Gerry promised he'd always be there for Holly. And he is: his last bequest to her is The List, a bundle of notes which form a monthly mission for Holly to get her life back on track. As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows Holly better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before. Life is for living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you. Charming, heartfelt and funny, this debut novel celebrates life, love and friendship and proves that true love never dies.

The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan

From Amazon: Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life; until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game; and warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, The Thirty-Nine Steps established John Buchan as the original thriller writer and inspired many other novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock.